The Curse of the Millennials: Communism is Making a Comeback
With this generation's keenness for socialism, the countdown towards the end of wealth and abundance may have begun.

Ignorance is bliss, they say. But when it comes to modern history, ignorance might be a genuine peril to our future. A new study published recently shows that the majority of the millennials in the US are leaning towards a socialist mindset and some even favour communist views.
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The survey showed, for instance, that more millennials (71 percent) agreed with Bernie Sanders’ statements than with the late-great Prof. Milton Friedman (58 percent). Yes, you read it right. A person who wanted to make college tuition free for all, to increase taxes by almost $20 trillion and to overregulate Uber, is more popular than one of the founding fathers of liberal economy.
Moreover, some of America’s young adults also expressed ignorance about the world’s worst tyrants. Some 58 percent and 67 percent didn’t know who Mao Zedong and Vladimir Lenin were, respectively.
George W. Bush more evil than Stalin?
The Cuban mass murderer Che Guevara was known only to 40 percent of the respondents, even though so many of them are wearing his merchandise. No wonder a picture of the American president on the background of Guevara’s silhouette from Obama’s historical visit to Cuba was more favored than condemned.
But, if that’s not enough, almost a third (32 percent) of American millennials believe that there were more people killed during George W. Bush’s tenure than under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Stalin, who’s famous for quotes like “when one dies, it is a tragedy; when a million die, it is a statistic”, and “no person, no problem”, is responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of his people, many of whom suffered terrible deaths in work camps.
Overall, Stalin and other communist tyrants, like Pol Pot and Mao Zedong, have exterminated over 100 million people! But apparently, those inequities are less awful than the casualties of the war on terror initiated by Bush.
Oddly enough, this underestimation of Stalin’s contribution to diluting the global population can be found thousands of miles away, in Russia. According to a survey conducted earlier this year by the renowned research organization Lavada Center, some 40 percent of Russians view Stalin’s era as “more good than evil”.
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An enormous portion of the US electorate oppose free trade and support protectionism.
As a person who was born in the “Empire of Evil” (as Reagan called it) – the Soviet Union – I find this global affection for tyranny and the ignorance of its perils alarming.
But no less alarming is the infatuation of America’s young adults with communism’s lesser evil – socialism. This notion, by the way, is now bi-partisan. Both Trump and Sander supporters – an enormous portion of the US electorate – oppose free trade and support protectionism.
It’s no wonder that this generation (which I am also a part of) is so fond of socialism. After all, we all grew up in an era of relative peace and great personal wealth and abundance.
Countdown to the end of the great era of wealth
Recent research conducted in the US, Canada and other Western countries showed that millennials are the richest generation in history. Not to mention that they did not experience first hand the Cold War, the Iron Curtain or the Cuban missile crisis.
America’s greatness, under the rule of both parties, was built largely on the values of free economy, small government involvement and personal liberty. To a large extent, the same goes for Europe and the Far East. Wherever those values prevailed (Northern Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and even coastal China), there has been prosperity.
The other side of the coin can be seen in Venezuela, North Korea, rural China and even the ‘Club-Med’ countries, where state involvement and poor fiscal policy have led to decadence and corruption.
The only way to stop this race to the bottom is by educating my generation on the prospects of free economy and the dangers of socialism, statism and re-distributism, led by populist politicians.
Unless we do something about it, we can start the countdown to the end of this great era of wealth.
communism will win
NEVER!!
We’re coming for that toothbrush!
Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes!
You guys are idiots. Friedman was a fascist (ask Chile), the reason that communism isn’t existant and functional as we speak is because of right-wing reactionists – like the propagandists who wrote this – is because of every coup, war and so on that aimed to destroy it. Name me a single country that aimed for socialism and the wasn’t destroyed by foreign imperialism in the process, or that imperialism hasn’t tried to destroy in any way? If most people don’t know Lenin, Mao, or the imbecile Freedman who’s catastrophic ideas are linked to the world’s deregulation and the growing… Read more »
The bourgies are scared
Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism! Death to Amerikkka!
hippity hoppity no private property
Yes, indeed; the end of the great wealth hoarding by the oligarchs comrade. What people fail to understand is that communism is a reaction to the conditions of capitalist society. As long as you create the conditions, there will be an opposition by the workers to their exploitation. As it stands, the powerful are trying to recreate the Gilded Age, and any benefits accrued to the workers are rapidly going down the toilet. Both communism and capitalism have to be in play and opposition for the lives of the majority of workers to improve. Say so long to your yacht… Read more »
Quick, break out the smelling salts and the fainting couches!!
American agricultural workers are killing themselves five times the national average. They must realize that they are the sickle. When this is realized, those same workers will look upon their masters and realize that they only must claim the fruit of their labor, and this can only be done by reaping the rich.
Mostly insane rant. Capitalists started World War I and II. It was the Capitalists that nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it was the Capitalists that fought Americans in the the Pacific theater of war. All in all, the death toll of Capitalism is huge and rising. The arguments against US-backed Stalin, US-backed Mao or even US-backed Pol Pot regime fail. That is right, Capitalists saw no problems backing and supporting all those dictatorships (while creating their own dictatorships). Your regime is a failure. Your argument is a failure. You are simply failing. Bernie Sanders is not a socialist. Bernie Sanders… Read more »
Quote: “Research conducted in…Western countries showed that millennials are the richest generation in history” —————– You don’t like redistribution, but sure like redistribution when it involves coming up with the ‘mean’ average of wealth held by millennials. ************************** Michael says, “Let’s just redistribute ALL the wealth held by tech industry billionaires and those who had wealth handed to them for simply being born. Spread it out amongst the dirt poor. Then tell millennials that they are the wealthiest generation EVER!” Just as Michael finishes his sentence. ———-A monster kicks down the door!——— “Arrrrggggg… RECLAIMING THE FRUITS OF THE PEOPLE’S LABOR!… Read more »