The younger generations know that the system is failing them and they want something else. That isn’t necessarily socialism. From Steve Cortes at zerohedge.com:
There’s real angst among older Americans about Gen Z’s openness to socialism. For those of us shaped by the Cold War, this flirtation with Marxism-lite feels alarming.
But we need to pause and rethink what we’re actually seeing.
Gen Z isn’t embracing socialism because they dream of five-year plans. They’re listening because the “capitalism” they were sold was already broken—rigged for insiders, punishing for everyone else.
They’ve been:
- Systematically lied to, about major issues
- Shut out of real opportunity
- Raised in an economy designed to reward incumbents, not strivers
Also, they didn’t come pre-programmed. They don’t warm to inherited allegiances. The ideological labels—capitalism, socialism, Zionism, democracy, equity—don’t trigger the same instincts in them. In many cases, they don’t trigger anything at all.
Because maybe they don’t even know (or care) that they’re supposed to be pro-this or anti-that. They weren’t around for the Cold War. They didn’t watch the Berlin Wall fall. They weren’t raised on 9/11 flags or 20th-century partisan scripts.
What they were around for was collapse.
The purpose of socialism is communism.
Vlad Lenin
There is NO New Man or workers utopia.