the kids are alright on terf isle
I gotta say that as a working class young person in Britain, basically everybody I knew at school is either now a democratic socialist or a full on communist/anarchist. Jeremy Corbyn was a huge phenomena among young people, and when he was character assassinated and Starmer came in, it's done so much to radicalise people against electoralism and liberalism. we've had huge street movements over the past 4 years, of which the backbone has been very angry young people with no hope and no future
On the one hand, doom: most young people who want "socialism" in the imperial core really just want more vacation time, stronger social welfare systems and toothier environmental policies. They are still conditioned by imperialism.
On the other hand, bloom: a young person who thinks socialism is good but was just "badly done" in the past is much closer to breaking free of imperialist propaganda than one who denounces socialism altogether.
I would say any failed socialist state was 'badly done' because I could point to some internal failure which accelerated it's fall. I would like another survey seeing how critically people look at past socialist states
No doubt about internal missteps and failures, but the major socialist projects in the 20th century were under constant attack, and siege socialism is hard to give up when faced with that pressure.
Which is why polls like this are extremely unreliable to the point of being meaningless. It means young people want to return to an older type of welfare liberalism that is never coming back, which is what "socialism" has come to mean because of appropriation of the term by certain actors; not that they actually understand what "socialism" means.
i feel like young britbongers might have a slightly better conception of socialism than young americans because they have had a labour party with socialist factions for like a hundred years now while we have not had a relevant socialist party in nearly a hundred years
