Survey: Nearly two-thirds of young Americans support socialism (www.campusreform.org)

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 25 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

https://www.cato.org/blog/young-americans-socialism-too-much-thats-problem-libertarians-must-fix

There isn't a graph of the socialism question age break down shown.

A total of 43 percent said they have a “favorable” view of socialism, and for those aged 18–29, 62 percent said favorable. For communism, a total of 14 percent said they have a favorable view; however, in the 18–29 group, 34 percent said favorable. That’s about 18 million people. (The findings are estimates: there are an estimated 52 million Americans aged 18–29, so 34 percent is 17.68 million; 62 percent of that age group is roughly 32 million people.)

report on the survey (does not include age breakdown on results): https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2025-04/Tax%20Policy%20Survey_2025_2.pdf

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago

Considering how the US education system vilifies communism in the same vein of fascism, with political indoctrination from elementary to middle to high school, 1 in 3 young ppl favoring communism is honestly amazing