>30% of Gen Z has a favorable view of Marxism, up 6% from 2019, compared to 27% of Millennials, down 9% from 2019.
Sounds like it's easy to support marxism when your earnings are low (gen z), but as your earnings go up (Millennials) you're increasingly less in favor of it.
>Americans increasingly distrust the government to take care of their interests, with 87% saying they trust themselves over the government and their community (a 7% increase from 2019). This is especially the case in younger generations, with only 6% of Gen Z and 5% of Millennials trusting the government to take care of their interests, down 8% and 11% from 2019, respectively.
>12% of Gen Z and 10% of Millennials think society would be better off if all private property was abolished and held by the government.
So 12% of gen z and 10% of millennials want to abolish all private property (ie. handing it over to the government), but only 6% and 5% trust the government? Seems to be a contradiction there.
I see that the report doesn't for opinions about 'authoritarianism'.
The sidebar notes that Churchill condemned communism 75 years ago. I wonder what would have happened if Churchill would have focused on the problems of authoritarianism.
The credibility of this source is pretty questionable. Victims of Communism is little more than a right wing think tank with strong ties to the Heritage Foundation. To me, much of this report reads as tired McCarthyist propaganda. The quote at the end in particular is revealing insofar as it shows the clear conservative ideological bent of VoC.
Some of their statistics are also pretty strange:
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Over one-third of Americans (39%) are likely to support a member of the Democratic Socialist party for office with greater support among younger generations (51% of Gen Z and 44% of Millennials). 16% of Gen Z and Millennials are likely to support a member of the Communist party for office.
What "Democratic Socialist party" are they talking about? I don't think I've ever seen an American politician run affiliated with such a party if it even exists.
> Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans say they are unaware that the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for more deaths than Nazi Germany.
Neglects to mention that those killed by the CCP were not killed on the basis of race, ethnicity or religious belief, but because they were landlords. I think most reasonable people would want to distinguish between that — as awful as it is — and the genocide committed by Nazi Germany.
> Over half of Gen Z (51%) think that America is a racist nation with a long history of discrimination.
Whether this is true or not, what does this have to do with communism?
> 53% of Americans think a good government should favor the freedom of its citizens over the safety of its citizens.
Again they don't bother to define what freedom is. Whereas the young people know first hand that "It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper." (c)
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 30.6 ms ] threadSounds like it's easy to support marxism when your earnings are low (gen z), but as your earnings go up (Millennials) you're increasingly less in favor of it.
>Americans increasingly distrust the government to take care of their interests, with 87% saying they trust themselves over the government and their community (a 7% increase from 2019). This is especially the case in younger generations, with only 6% of Gen Z and 5% of Millennials trusting the government to take care of their interests, down 8% and 11% from 2019, respectively.
>12% of Gen Z and 10% of Millennials think society would be better off if all private property was abolished and held by the government.
So 12% of gen z and 10% of millennials want to abolish all private property (ie. handing it over to the government), but only 6% and 5% trust the government? Seems to be a contradiction there.
The sidebar notes that Churchill condemned communism 75 years ago. I wonder what would have happened if Churchill would have focused on the problems of authoritarianism.
>Seventy-nine percent of Americans accurately say China is a communist, rather than a democratic, country.
Some of their statistics are also pretty strange:
> Over one-third of Americans (39%) are likely to support a member of the Democratic Socialist party for office with greater support among younger generations (51% of Gen Z and 44% of Millennials). 16% of Gen Z and Millennials are likely to support a member of the Communist party for office.
What "Democratic Socialist party" are they talking about? I don't think I've ever seen an American politician run affiliated with such a party if it even exists.
> Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans say they are unaware that the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for more deaths than Nazi Germany.
Neglects to mention that those killed by the CCP were not killed on the basis of race, ethnicity or religious belief, but because they were landlords. I think most reasonable people would want to distinguish between that — as awful as it is — and the genocide committed by Nazi Germany.
> Over half of Gen Z (51%) think that America is a racist nation with a long history of discrimination.
Whether this is true or not, what does this have to do with communism?
Again they don't bother to define what freedom is. Whereas the young people know first hand that "It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper." (c)