Young People More Likely To Favor Socialism Than Capitalism: Pew

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    Young people -- the collegiate and post-college crowd, who have served as the most visible face of the Occupy Wall Street movement -- might be getting more comfortable with socialism. That's the surprising result from a Pew Research Center poll that aims to measure American sentiments toward different political labels...

    The poll, published Wednesday...socialism has more fans than opponents among the 18-29 crowd. Forty-nine percent of people in that age bracket say they have a positive view of socialism; only 43 percent say they have a negative view.

    And while those numbers aren't very far apart, it's noteworthy that they were reversed just 20 months ago, when Pew conducted a similar poll.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/29/young-people-socialism_n_1175218.html

    Gallup February 4, 2010

    PRINCETON, NJ -- More than one-third of Americans (36%) have a positive image of "socialism,"
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/125645/socialism-viewed-positively-americans.aspx

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    The fact that so many Americans favor socialism is significant, because no one with national name recognition has advocated it since the death of Michael Harrington in July 31, 1989.
     
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