Less Than a Quarter of College Students View Capitalism Favorably, According to Survey
“Most students across all political groups say that ‘at least a few’ of their professors have shared their views on socialism and capitalism”
This is a victory for people like Bernie Sanders and AOC. They’re getting results.
Campus Reform reports:
SURVEY: Less than one-quarter of students have a positive view of capitalism
A new survey from North Dakota State University found nationwide support among students for policing professors’ speech on “offensive” topics, and a staggering lack of support for capitalism among students.
Only 23% of students said that they had a “positive” view of capitalism.
When asked to define capitalism, over half (56%) of students across all political spectrums—liberal, conservative, and independent—say they associate it with the free market, and less than one-third (30%) associate it with cronyism, according to the survey.
While nearly half of conservative college students report having a positive view of capitalism, the number drops to 15% for liberal students. About 66% of conservatives who associate capitalism with the free market have a positive view of it, while 24% of liberals who associate it with the free market view capitalism positively.
Most students do not believe that capitalism can solve big challenges. The highest number believing so are conservatives, and yet, less than half (46%) of them have faith in capitalism solving the world’s problems.
Most students across all political groups say that “at least a few” of their professors have shared their views on socialism and capitalism, with most favoring the former over the latter.
Three-quarters (74%) of students are in favor of reporting professors to the university for saying anything the students find offensive. That number jumps to 81% for liberal students and drops to 53% for conservative students.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of students say a professor should be reported to the university for stating an opinion or fact related to affirmative action, police shootings, guns, vaccines, gender, and biological sex. That number increases to 75% when liberal students responded to the same nationwide survey.
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I am fairly sure you’d get the same results in past generations. Few of those polled have yet been in the job market, paid a tax bill, or seen much of the real world.
The poll demonstrates the worthlessness of paying a fortune for most college education. These kids need a summer in some African hellhole to learn what the absence of capitalism is like, or perhaps Venezuela, a Socialist paradise.
Just for fun, on the admissions application, ask them to name a major “non-state” college, or even a single building, that was made possible by the contributions of a socialist. Oberlin College mostly exists because a chemistry student discovered how to extract aluminum form ore while a student and later started ALCOA.
Good luck getting them to go to Venezuela because I hear that you can’t get good avacado toast at the coffee shops.
I don’t think they can define “capitalism”. Now ask them if they support the freedom to create, freedom to sell, freedom to buy and all that.
And yet they all expect $100k or more salaries on graduation.