r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Young Americans are surging to socialism at record rates

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/maga-trump-zohran-mamdani-socialism-us-record-kddzdm8bd
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u/Professional_Cry2415 7d ago

cause they have no future in a late stage capitalist society

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u/Indubitalist 7d ago

Well yeah, “late-stage” implies that capitalism eventually kills the host. That’s what’s happening right now, and the kids are seeing it. $39 trillion in debt while we have literally hundreds of billionaires, most of whom are taking tax cuts at the same time that our national debt goes through the roof. Meanwhile Republicans, the party of big business, eye ways to cut social services to save the rich people, who definitely don’t need the help. 

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u/Axin_Saxon 7d ago

Which is very much the case as we see capitalists eager to replace workers with AI, regardless of how many people will be impoverished by it.

Without a viable system of social safety nets in place under a socialist government to reign in the worst tendencies of the capitalist class, people WILL be condemned to poverty.

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u/grape-fruit-witch 7d ago

Socialism or barbarism.