Millennials Are Clueless About Communism. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.

The Daily Signal ^ | 3 Nov, 2017 | Jarrett Stepman

[2001convSVT]

Right you are, my dad a Korean war vet, instilled in us a hatred of communism. Better dead than red was a way of life.

[usconservative]

I blame their parents, the education system and biased media.

Nailed it.

[A Navy Vet]

I am probably one of the few here that actually visited a commune in the 60's (just north of Los Angeles). While some were working hard in the fields, building stuff, dealing with logistics of supplies, others were laying about while listening to some unwashed lousy guitar player and having free love where ever. What was the result?

The industrious got tired of carrying all the weight while the lazies expected and got the same communal benefits. It closed like 2 weeks later. This was true communism that had no central control, other than a few founders on a council who assigned jobs for newcomers.

Perfect example of the failed ideology of communism. It only works if you have an armed dictatorial central government and the threat of gulags. Of course,then it's fascism.

I blame my hippie Boomer generation who took control of our education system and literally brain-washing GenX,Y,and Z (millenials).

[zeestephen]

Re: “The poll found that about half of Millennials said they would rather live under socialism or communism than capitalism.”

That's because almost one half of Millennials are non-white, and they vote 80% for the Democrat Party.

White Millennials vote 50% to 55% for the Republican Party.

[i_robot73]

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Two problems come to mind. When the democrats and neocons tell them Russia today is the same as the USSR, they believe it.
And the flip side of that coin is that when their own politicians are pure communist...they don’t recognize it.
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Sorry, but B.S. Kids today wouldn’t KNOW the difference between Russia & the USSR. We ARE talking govt indoctrination centers here.

As to your 2nd point, most pols ARE Socialist+ (I might be able to count on one hand those not so). Which leads right into your “...religion, calls for nationalization...”

What happens w/ 100yrs+ of (R)NC ‘poo-pooing’ the alarms raised: ‘public education’, ‘public funding’, ACLU, teachers unions, conc. of power in D.C.

[i_robot73]

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Liberals like to say that generals and the military always want to fight the last war and are not forward thinking. But they spend all their time thinking of slavery as people owning people as was common in the Americas through much of the 1800s. Since the Red October revolution of 1917 the trend has been toward governments owning people. Yet liberals are still fighting the last war.
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And the (R)NC couldn’t point-counter-point itself out of a used facial tissue on the matter (or ANY that I can tell), yet, the SAME people keep getting (re)elected to office by the SAME people pulling the lever.

[beelzepug]

Stalin, a hero? Lenin, an environmentalist? This is what happens when teachers fill young heads with the Marxist crap they learned in college - if they even have classes on history and civics anymore.

Lenin wasn’t the environmentalist, Stalin was. He fertilized an awful lot of Russia with 20,000,000 corpses.

[Hugin]

People who know nothing will fall for anything.

[Vaduz]

Yes they follow Jane Fonda’s logic the only reason communism failed is because people failed to embrace it gee wonder why.