Robert Knight offers his take
in the Washington Times on socialism in light of a survey that many young people
prefer socialism to capitalism.
Despite several horrifying
current examples of nations in the grip of socialism, many of America’s
millennials are happily skipping down the socialist Yellow Brick Road toward an
Oz that could never be.
It isn’t just Bernie Sanders’
young legions of admirers. A recent survey showed that a whopping 44 percent of
young people favor socialism over capitalism, with seven percent opting for
outright communism and seven percent more for fascism. It adds up to a majority
wanting total government control over the economy — and their lives, if they
stop to think about it.
The more than 100 million
murdered in communist nations and by the Nazis during the 20th century? Ancient
history that has gone down a memory hole.
The poll was highlighted in
the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes
Toward Socialism,” which also found that old, dead commies are still quite
popular. Thirty-one percent of the young people polled have a favorable view of
Fidel Castro’s favorite executioner, Che Guevara, 32 percent Karl Marx, 23
percent Vladimir Lenin and 19 percent Mao Zedong.
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