PSL: Why do young people in the US favor socialism? [View all]
from the Party for Socialism and Liberation:
Why do young people in the US favor socialism?
Statement by PSL presidential candidate Peta Lindsay
By Peta Lindsay
January 4, 2012
Recently the Pew Center for research published a poll in which they found that 49 percent of young people in the U.S. favor socialism, while only 43 percent reported viewing it unfavorably. The report also revealed that African Americans favor socialism at a rate of 55 percent to 36 percent.
This news seems to have taken some in the capitalist media by surprise—but should it? Our experiences and our conditions shape our consciousness. And in our relatively short lifetimes, the experiences of my generation have certainly run contrary to the myth that the capitalist free market is a force for “peace,” “freedom” and “prosperity.”
In the last 10 years, we have seen endless wars that were premised on lies and driven by profit. Weapons contractors, financiers, oil executives and the politicians and generals who sit on the boards of these major corporations have literally made a killing through record profits from the death and destruction that they have been allowed to wreak abroad.
Millions of people across the country, the majority of them young, have marched against these wars and if we lived in a true democracy, if the decision to pursue these wars had ever been brought before the people, there is no doubt that our brothers and sisters in uniform would already be home. ..............(more)
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