Study finds US and Brazil split over capitalism is largely illusory
A peer-reviewed study in Nature Communications finds that the apparent split between capitalism and socialism in the United States and Brazil is largely illusory. Most people in the study favour a hybrid economic system.
The study found that people label that hybrid system "capitalist" or "socialist" depending on their political identity. So the disagreement lies more in the words people choose than in what they want. The study covers only the United States and Brazil, not South Africa. Details of the sample and methods were not available to us, so the size of the effect is unclear.