O wait no its really not. As one of those Young People I see how capitalism has failed us and put the power in the hands of a small number of old rich white guys who could care less about anyone but themselves. They would through their own children, let alone the children of the poor under the bus if it made them another dollar. There is a reckoning coming and time is on the Young Peoples side because old people die, its what they do and once your dead that money or power won't help you were they are going.

Views on the economy are set pretty early, usually around college age. So now we have almost 5-6 years worth of college grads and non-college grads who can't find work and are watching the obscene amounts of wealth being funnelled to the very top. Once that view is set, it's extremely difficult to change. People who were coming of age during the Great Depression had a similar view.

Of course it's losing ground in the integrity market. It never had much to begin with.
I'm hoping that succeeding generations agree that burdens are meant to be shared, not shouldered by individuals.
The only burden an individual should be forced to carry is the one of his individuality, creativity, and a bundle of other choices made by him or her alone.
Do not confound "employment" with perfect mental health and altruism. To be employed is not to be altruistic or even morally decent.
To do volunteer work is both.
To care about one's neighbors is both.

Hopefully, we can evolve via the younger generation.

from the moment of birth? When people are asked to compare Socialist and capitalist ideas without identifying labels, they choose the socialist far more often.

Hell, most Americans can't even define Socialism.

Really, socialism hasn't been much of a force in the world in recent years, capitalism is so widespread. And the only people really taking about it (its not really the left in the US) are on the right.

Honestly, I wonder what the political power of Fox-news blow-back is. Basically, you have somebody like Beck, and he's going off about Obama's birth certificate, socialism, and how global warming is false. Then you see these mega-storms, Obama shows his birth certificate and the rest. So Beck's critique of the this socialism thing, which is really in many ways a non-force in the world, actually serves to validate it by association, to reanimate it as a force in the world. It maybe another case of that "be careful what you focus on" thing... For the right.

At least many of us do, and young people have no reason to hold capitalism in high esteem. Maybe we'll get to that social democracy after all. Not in my lifetime, but maybe in my son's. I hope so.

Kids are no longer being brainwashed into hating socialism before they know what it is.

than younger people have seen. I'm not surprised people are reacting against the radical free market version of capitalism that's been practiced the past few decades.

Old Socialist's heart!

"A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one." – George Bernard Shaw

You don't want to make Professor Droney mad. You wouldn't like him when he's mad.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022350703

Medicare etc and Gov help with storms etc. But I don't think they approve of the gov. owning all oil co. and corporations and businesses...like real socialistic countries. When they see the disparity in income now days...they turn against capitalism and realize it can make life pretty unfair for many people. I guess we need a little of each type of government.

Decades of conservative (and "centrist&quot drum pounding has narrowed the definition of "capitalism" to mean only the current predatory/dog-eat-dog/unregulated version, excluding versions that we had here from the New Deal up to Reagan, and in Europe under systems we helped set up to avoid Soviet influence.

Anything that works in favor of the vast majority of people, anything that slows down unlimited buckraking from the top -- all that has been redefined as "socialism".

When you define reasonable policies that need some updating but which worked as "socialism", lo and behold younger people like "socialism". The oldest of them were toddlers when the Soviet Union collapsed. The association of the word with Stalinist police states just isn't there.

but on the contrary, it is our conditions that determine our consciousness.
(paraphrased)
--K.M.

And one more for good measure:

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. --K.M.

Democrats..."

Most of Western Europe has been described as Socialist to one level or another, but aren't they also market economies?

Bryant

..."the Free World".