Seventeen per cent of Canada’s 18- to 34-year-olds believe communism is the ideal economic system.
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The doctrine spreads because the “oppressed” gain instant status and power without the need for virtues or accomplishments.
Among Britons aged 18 to 34, support for socialism increases to 53 per cent.
Chinese officials are pulling books from schools and libraries and purging teachers and professors.
Hardship can spawn artists that find creative methods of expressing themselves despite a culture of oppression.
Many writers, artists and Hollywood filmmakers favoured communism.
Naomi Klein’s anti-capitalist vision for the future may allow for only a few lucky high-flyers.
With the eruption of ISIS in the Middle East and the ongoing autocracies in Russia and China, pause for a moment and think back to the last century and compare the challenges back then to now.
In a recent column from a Toronto journalist on communism and capitalism, the writer made an astonishing claim: While “millions have been the tragic victims of communism,” he wrote, “that number pales, surely, in comparison with the victims of capitalism.”