Measuring Support for Ecosocialism - The Democratic Socialist Project

More than 5,000 people in the UK and US were presented with a proposal for ecosocialist transformation. What was their reaction? In the US, 72% of people supported it. In the UK support was even higher, at 82%.

The proposal included the following:

Scaling down damaging and unnecessary production and consumption

Cutting the purchasing power of the rich, and reducing inequality

Establishing universal public services and a public job guarantee to reorganise production around needs

Democratising control over finance and the means of production

Ending imperialist appropriation from the global South through unequal exchange

The study (published in The Lancet Planetary Health) is summarised here. These are striking results, and confirm other studies showing popular support for many of the principles and policies associated with ecosocialism.

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