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Posted on 11/09/2025 8:41:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Socialism beats capitalism among U.S. college students, in a new Axios-Generation Lab poll.
67% of survey respondents say they hold a positive or neutral association with the word "socialism," compared with 40% with the word "capitalism."
Why it matters: Days before a nationally watched election that could made democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani New York City's next mayor, the survey reveals Gen Z's growing disillusionment with capitalism — fueled by high inflation, surging healthcare and housing costs, and the rising influence of billionaires in politics, tech and media.
It also highlights college students' left-leaning politics — and sharp partisan divides within their generation.
By the numbers:
34% of surveyed two- and four-year college students say they have a somewhat or very positive view of socialism, compared with 17% who say the same for capitalism.
Negative views of capitalism outweigh negative views of socialism by an even greater difference: 53% v. 23%. One in three has a neutral view of socialism. One in four has a neutral view of capitalism. Partisan differences are stark: 47% of Democratic respondents and 31% of independents — but just 5% of Republicans — react positively to socialism.
45% of Republicans but just 17% of independents and 7% of Democrats have positive reactions to capitalism.
Of the overall respondents, 46% identified as Democrats, 14% as Republicans and 40% as independents.
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
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Tell you what. Send them all to Cuba for a year. We’ll see what they think when they come back.
Venezuela and North Korea would work well too.
All the reasons they give and don’t like are the results of socialism.
Absolutely right. I worked in communist China for seven months in late '76 to early '77. I was 25 years old. I came back with the firm belief that every American kid must serve a year in a communist country.
I first-hand observed a mass rally with 500 workers at the fertilizer plant banging pots and pans and chanting while holding up their Mao's Red Book. I had an interpreter who was a wonderful concert violinist, the the STATE said "We don't need any more violinists. You are now an interpreter. I saw three years olds being taught to hate the USA at a country fair. They had to knock a paratrooper off of hook and make him land on a map of the USA.
Of course the little brain washed bone heads do. No surprise here
Eldridge Cleaver was another one who saw the light after he lived in Cuba.
Can someone explain this “post-work” or”horizon of overcoming labor”?
“Many democratic socialists believed that labor would overcome itself through the exercise of democratic political rights. The workers would want to give themselves more leverage in their negotiations with their employers. They would use democracy to give themselves that leverage, by creating the economic rights that would empower them to refuse labor arrangements they considered exploitative.“
Makes sense. In their entire 15+ years in school, they’ve never been told of the evils socialism has created.
Just wait until they find out how expensive free things are.
Choices:
1) Do you want everything to be free for everybody?
2) Do you want to work hard all your life and constantly worry about not being able to pay your bills?
Oh. Look at that. I guess you’re all socialists!
Makes sense. In their entire 15+ years in school, they’ve never been told of the evils socialism has created.
Unbelieving academia, ruled by carnal minds, trust in man wherein there is a curse (Jeremiah 17:5) and his gov’t bringing the curse of coercion and slavery to gov’t command and control (”socialism”) rather than trusting in the Lord which brings the blessing (Jeremiah 17:7) of freedom, success, and “The Wealth of Nations” (Adam Smith) of the free market (better term than “capitalism”).
Faith and trust in the Lord is required to recover and restore America’s Free Constitutional Republic and, thus, MAGA!!!!!
Perhaps it's a good thing that Zohran Mamdani won so we can see in real time why communism doesn't work.
When you have communist/socialist teachers and professors pushing/teaching this crap to mush brains, what do you expect polls to say.
College Kids are just that, Kids.
They were sold a shiiitey bill of goods.
Have been manipulated at every turn.
A few years later, they begin to open their eyes and see.
And now BommerCons want their SS, their ACA giveaway, their Senior tax abatements, their Invasores to cut their grass and clean their house.
The Generational split is getting bigger every day and BoomerCons have no reply but “Don’t Take My Shiite!”.
Exactly.
After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, Cleaver decided it was time to up the ante as rebellions spread throughout major U.S. cities. Armed with M16s and shotguns, Cleaver led a botched ambush on police, resulting in the murder of 17-year-old Bobby Hutton.
Facing federal charges, Cleaver fled to Cuba in late 1968. Havana had become a haven for political refugees fleeing the United States, starting with Robert F. Williams in early 1961. Cleaver inherited Williams’ mantle as the most famous Black militant-in-exile, and in Cuba he developed plans for a North American Liberation Front.
His hopes of training Black revolutionaries on the Caribbean island to invade the United States in a “reverse-Bay-of-Pigs” was quickly quashed by the Cuban government. They unceremoniously shipped Cleaver to Algeria, where he surfaced to attend the 1969 Pan-African Cultural Festival.
Disillusioned with the Cubans (and Soviets), Cleaver rapidly used connections in Algeria to seek out allies across the globe. Setting up the Afro-American Center in Algiers, he saw connections between the Palestinian struggle and Black American liberation. The Algerians granted Cleaver’s “International Section” of the Panthers an embassy formerly used by the North Vietnamese.
Cleaver toured North Vietnam and the People’s Republic of China as part of his U.S. People’s Anti-Imperialist Delegation, but his closest contacts came with Pyongyang. He made two visits to North Korea – Kathleen gave birth to the couple’s daughter there – identifying it as a model for Black Americans waging their own liberation struggle.
During these tumultuous years, Cleaver sparred with the great activists of his era – often former allies – from Stokely Carmichael to Panther leader Huey Newton.
As Newton retreated from armed struggle and internationalism in late 1970, Cleaver and Newton entered a bloody physical and ideological war over the future of the Party, one undoubtedly amplified by the FBI’s COINTELPRO. Stateside and with a stronger grasp on the Party, Newton eventually won control. Cleaver tried, but failed, to continue operating the International Section in an increasingly hostile geopolitical climate./
Isolated by 1973, Cleaver fell into despair: “Face it,” he told a journalist, “people…use Internationalism in a very cynical way to further their own nationalist aspirations.”
Dejected, he left Algiers for Paris where he and Kathleen moved into an apartment decorated with zebra hide (captured in the 1974 photo above). He returned to the United States in 1975. Upon his return, he eschewed his former comrades and channeled the spirit of Booker T. Washington.
He proclaimed to Black Americans, “Cast down your bucket where you are,” and argued, “America really needs to take control of the world.” Cleaver abandoned the Palestinian cause and embraced Zionism, even hanging an Israeli flag outside his Berkeley home.
For the next two decades, the militant-turned-maverick flailed around with various endeavors: he dabbled in evangelicalism and Mormonism, synthesized Islam and Christianity into a bad portmanteau called “Christlam,” led a failed clothing startup featuring codpiece pants, toyed with stonemasonry (Cleaver is pictured here in 1982 with one of his works), and ran a recycling business.
Nothing stuck.
Like his former ally and nemesis, Huey Newton, Cleaver struggled with substance abuse in his last decade. He died, ironically, on May Day 1998, leaving behind a convoluted legacy.
For a time, he was the most recognized U.S. militant-in-exile, armed with a plan of action – a grand strategy for revolution – stretching from East Asia to the East Coast. Cleaver’s life is a window into Black internationalism during the Cold War, from its zenith to its nadir.
https://picturingblackhistory.org/the-life-of-eldridge-cleaver/
Now, you'd better hope next time the class takes a test y'all do better.
College students prefer taking rather than making.
Who knew?
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