Posted on 07/07/2021 9:19:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Polling in the United States and internationally is showing a sharp increase in support for socialism among young people.
Support for capitalism is waning as a new generation embraces views of collective economic policies and programs.
Two hundred years after the birth of Karl Marx, his views are now coming back into vogue despite a long history of economic failures in socialist countries.
A new poll conducted June 11-25 by Momentive on behalf of Axios found that a majority (57% of U.S. adults) still have a favorable view of capitalism. However, the most notable data point is age. Those 18-34 now are evenly split on negative and positive views of capitalism. (46% vs. 49%). The dislike for capitalism rises further at younger age groups. For those 18 to 24, the negative views outweighing positive views by a margin of 54% to 42%.
The other groups showing stronger support for socialism are black and female Americans (60% and 45%, respectively).
The same swing is being reported internationally. A new poll by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) shows younger people growing opposing to capitalism and support for socialism. The paper includes a Forefront Market Research poll of people aged between 16 and 34 in the UK. An astonishing 67 per cent say they would like to live in a socialist economic system.
Notably, 75 percent view climate change is a specifically capitalist problem despite the terrible record of China and other socialist countries in the area of pollution and climate change.
Nevertheless, capitalism is being blamed for an increasing number of disasters. Recently, Professor Richard Wolf, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, blamed “privatized housing” for the recent collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida.
Wolf tweeted on June 30 that “Miami’s collapsed condo shows: privatized housing violates democracy. Only condo owners voted to defer building repair. Delivery workers, condo visitors, repairers knew nothing, didn’t vote, risked injury, death. As irreducibly social, housing must be run democratically by all.”
As with climate change, the point ignores the building collapses and lax enforcement in socialist countries. Central control has never translated to better building codes or pollution policies.
The shift in favor of socialism is no surprise for some of us. My kids were often given material and lessons in their public high schools that criticized capitalism while rarely pointing out the failures of socialist countries like Venezuela.
Indeed, Venezuela continues to receive support despite a blood-soaked regime that has destroyed free press and free speech rights as well as reducing the country into an economic basket case. Recently, the Democratic Socialists of America (which claims supporters in Congress) visited Venezuelan dictator, Nicolas Maduro. Previously, we discussed the delegation of Chicago Teachers visiting the country and showering it with praise as political prisoners languished in the jails of Maduro.
The pandemic has led to a massive increase in government spending which is also likely to shape the views of many on the benefits of government controls and centralized programs. These polls show a generation coming to age that is ready to embrace aspects of Marx’s Das Kapital over Smith’s Wealth of Nations.
Wait till they pay taxes. Oh wait, many of these fools will be living off the dole forever.
They watched migrants who wire billions back home out of the country and the drug dealers they frequent...
They engage in enterprises for cash and don’t pay taxes on it
It’s easy for them. Their parents are paying for their iPhones, Macs and Netflix accounts.
Everything is easy when someone else is spying the bills.
They are in favor of socialism because (1) their libtard educators extolled the so-called “virtues” of it to them their entire educational career and (2) they have never experienced real socialism in their spoiled naive lives. Let them go to Venezuela or Cuba and then let’s see what they say.
They are bringing Venezuela and Cuba here
Non-white young Americans vote 70%-75% Democrat.
Socialism = free sh*t. They love that stuff.
and realist learns to Shoot...
Fragile communist bullies these snowflakes are.
People my age and younger are dumber than rocks, generally speaking.
How old are u?
“Two hundred years after the birth of Karl Marx, his views are now coming back into vogue”
Try it on, see how “cool” it looks on you.
vogue
/vōɡ/
noun
the prevailing fashion or style at a particular time.
adjective
popular; fashionable.
verb
dance to music in such a way as to imitate the characteristic poses struck by a model on a catwalk.
So they are admirers of a rabid anti-semite, wife beater and deadbeat whose writings are run-on unintelligible nonsense. As in the Red Square on Mayday in the Soviet Union, they can march behind giant portraits of Marx and Friedrich Engels, a German factory owner who also wrote gibberish about the “wonders” of communism. Add in Brezhnev, Chernenko and Khrushchev, a bunch of old, ossified white men and you have a real bunch of wing dings that the younger generation has fallen in love with, courtesy of the damned teachers’ union. Wait until we have “special stores” where only the “first among equals” can shop, such as the Biden children or the Bush family, and secretly buy goodies unavailable to the working class.
A pox on both houses....
They see the USA importing hundred of thousands of H-1B visa indentured scabs to take their jobs every year. Can you blame them?
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
K. Marx
Bkmk
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