The Emerging Neo Socialism Among Four Generations (Baby Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z). The results of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. A non-profit organization, show an increasing number of young people or millennial in the United States who agree with Communism and Socialism http://147.139.163.238.
The foundation, based in Washington DC, discovered the fact that millennial or those who will vote in the 2020 elections are more inclined towards Communism than Capitalism.
Reported by Marketwatch.com, Monday (11/04/2019), the study showed that more than a third of the millennial surveyed approved of Communism.
This figure has expanded from the earlier year. In 2018, there was just 28 percent who consented to Socialism. Casualties of Socialism Commemoration Establishment’s official chief Marion Smith said she was astonished at the aftereffects of the investigation.
“Verifiable amnesia about the risks of socialism and communism is introduced in the current year’s report.” Smith said in an announcement on Monday (10/28/2019).
“At the point when we don’t teach youngsters about the chronicled truth that 100 million casualties. Were executed on account of the socialist system during the previous century. We need not be amazed by their ability to grasp Marxist thoughts,” he included.
The study also reported that 22 percent of millennial believe. “Society will be better off if all private property is abolished,” according to the ideas of modern communists.
While 45 percent of Generation Z and millennial believe that “All higher education must be free.” Which is also a program of struggle for communists and socialists. This opinion has emerged as a result of the high price their parents must pay to get them educated and the struggle they see behind it.
What Cause the Socialism Tendency Among Millenial and Gen X?
The answer is pretty simple. Gen X, who were born between 1965 and 1979 are currently the most productive people by age. Most of them have seen and suffered from none other than the consequences of harsh capitalism.
Generation Z and millennial, however. Has a bigger concern because they are prone to suffer from family malfunction due to economic distress. However, according to research and experts, both generations, especially, Gen Z cannot have this idea alone. They are the motor of the idea that is most likely to be created by Gen X.
Another Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation study also shows, American youths tend to lose faith in Capitalism and prefer Socialism. According to Axios.com, the foundation examines more than 2 thousand Americans aged 16 years and over. Mentioned, 70 percent of millennial will elect a Socialist leader.
The survey says that nearly half of Gen Z (born 1995-2010) and millennial respondents feel the United States’ economic system is working against them.
Because they grow in a capitalist country where economic inequality continues to increase. They are burdened by debt, small wage increases, and threatened with losing their jobs.
The study showed 19 percent of millennial and 12 percent of Gen Z thought the Communist Manifesto “More guarantees freedom and equality for all” than the US Declaration of Independence.
Meanwhile, only 2 percent of baby boomers (born 1946-1964) and 5 percent of Gen X (born 1965-1980) feel the same way.