Survey Finds Nearly Two-Thirds of Young Americans Support Socialism
“Support for socialism and communism among 18–29-year-olds exceeds that of the general population and past polls of young adults.”
The left has pounded the idea into the heads of young people that they must be obsessed with fairness and that socialism is fair.
Campus Reform reports:
Survey: Nearly two-thirds of young Americans support socialism
According to a recent survey, 62 percent of American adults under 30 say they hold favorable views of socialism.
A Cato/YouGov survey conducted in March asked 2,000 American adults a range of questions about U.S. fiscal policy. The survey found that 62 percent of adults under age 30 expressed a favorable view of socialism, while just 38 percent held an unfavorable view.
When asked, “Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Communism?”, 34 percent of respondents aged 18–29 answered “favorable,” with 66 percent answering “unfavorable.” Only 14 percent of total respondents held a favorable view of communism.
Cato Institute Senior Editor Michael Chapman explained that the poll did not define socialism, leaving it up to the respondents to determine what the term meant. He noted that regardless of which of the many definitions of socialism the respondents may have had in mind, all forms of socialism share a “disdain for capitalism.”
Support for socialism and communism among 18–29-year-olds exceeds that of the general population and past polls of young adults. A 2019 Gallup poll of 1,500 Americans found that 52 percent of those surveyed aged 18–34 held a positive view of socialism.
A 2020 poll commissioned by the nonprofit Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and conducted by YouGov found that 49 percent of Gen Z held a “favorable opinion of the term ‘socialism.’”
In 2020, Campus Reform covered similar findings in a poll which found that “70 percent of Millennials say they are likely to vote for a socialist while one in three view communism favorably.”
In the 2025 Cato/YouGov poll, the younger the age group surveyed, the more likely the respondent was to hold a favorable view of socialism. This also held true in the 2019 Gallup and 2020 Victims of Communism/YouGov polls: the older the age group, the less likely the respondent was to hold a favorable view of socialism.
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I am not surprised. I am sickened. I believe envy and jealousy are at the root of the phenonema. We are seeing a generation that was spoiled & doted on by working parents, and was constantly supervised, thus given few if any opportunities to develop self-confidence. These kids are unporepared to make decisions on their own, so they are hoping the government will step in to regulate their lives. They hear about all the fabulous benefits offered by Europian countries to their citizens – free college tuition, free health care – and they want those things, too.
What they don’t see is that the lack of jobs fuels many of the free tuition programs. Government have to give young people something to do while waiting for a job to open up. This is certainly true in Italy. Nor do our young adults understand that nationalized health care does not focus on being cutting edge – it focuses on keeping costs down and services available. Most countries with nationalized system often also have a private system for those who can afford it. The Queen does not use England’s nationalized health care system. Neither does the Prime Minister.
It is serious that so many young adults do not value capitalism. They are very likely to kill the golden goose from sheer carelessness. Simply because they need constant support, having never learned to stand up on their own.
What this country needs is another Great Depression to force Americans to deal in reality. Enough of these delusions.
So at least 2/3 of young Americans have been lied to instead of taught. We’ll be feeling the effects of this for another 50 years, at least.
Unto the 7th generation…
I expect this result, given the leftist news media and the far leftist teenage social media. These kids have never seen the reality of socialism. A few weeks visiting Cuba, North Korea, or rural China would improve their education.
I;m thinking they should reap the benefits of their beliefs. The average annual salary of a US worker is about 60K. I propose confiscating all income above that for all those who believe in socialism. This occurs of course before applying social security, taxes, etc We’ll see how long college educated socialists continue to believe in socialism.
We should also do that to avowed socialists in congress starting with Red Diaper Bernie and AOC.
Screw gender confusion, I’m suffering from Generation Confusion.
I thought I’ve been hearing that this generational cohort was the most based since the 1950s, the one that was finally going to pull America out of Marxist hell.
Do I have the wrong generation? Or is this just another case of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Pollbots?
In the 2025 Cato/YouGov poll, the younger the age group surveyed, the more likely the respondent was to hold a favorable view of socialism.
Let me fix that for you:
“In the 2025 Cato/YouGov poll, the younger the age group surveyed, the more likely the respondent was to not understand what socialism truly is or entails.”
What the young people are taught about socialism is the sugar-coated, idealized version. They don’t hear about the political executions, the death marches, the gulags and pogroms, the forced labor camps where people are no better than slaves, or the lime pits where the masses of “useful idiots” are buried after they are deemed “useless eaters” instead. (Let alone that all of those “useless eaters” actively supported the regime that eventually had them culled.)
They only know of socialism as a glorious utopia of mandated equality and free stuff. They don’t learn the nitty-gritty truth about what it takes to sustain and maintain it, or that the equality is an illusion and the politically-connected elites still have a vastly greater quality of life and privilege.
How rose that explain their voting for Trump in 2024 and his current high approval amongst that age group?
===== The Socialist Problem:
Most, calling themselves Socialists, do not know what Socialism is or the difference between Democratic Socialism v. Social Democracy.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Berniecrats/permalink/3285923311665471/
Yes and nearly 2/3 of young Americans can’t find the United States on a map, or know who George Washington is or can name the 3 branches of government. So I doubt they even know what the difference between socialism or capitalism is ? This just reflexive hatred/shame of this country, which is the real concern. Why we do we teach children to hate their own country ?
They support Socialism because it has been “taught” as an achievable utopia. They have not been taught the actual outcomes of every Socialist Government that has ever been implemented in the Real World.