[JPL]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xerces', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coyote', 'R')ead the Communist Manifesto through once. Then you'll know what to criticize. Obama is not a communist.

[Revi]

What's the difference between capitalism and communism? I guess capitalism is more honest, but with communism you don't have to worry about accumulating all that stuff only to have it taken away and redistributed when you get sick.

In capitalism you play a game for your working life. You worry about keeping a roof over your head and dream of getting rich enough to quit worrying about your retirement. The stock market tanks and your retirement disappears, so you have to worry about survival, never mind retirement.

In communism you work for a state for your working life. You assume that your retirement is taken care of. Before you get there it goes belly up and you have to worry about survival, never mind retirement.

So what's the difference? Enlighten me.

[venky]

If you are 20 and not a socialist you dont have a heart

If you are 40 and not a conservative you dont have a brain.

Cant remember who said that, Churchill maybe.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'W')hat's the difference between capitalism and communism? I guess capitalism is more honest, but with communism you don't have to worry about accumulating all that stuff only to have it taken away and redistributed when you get sick.

In capitalism you play a game for your working life. You worry about keeping a roof over your head and dream of getting rich enough to quit worrying about your retirement. The stock market tanks and your retirement disappears, so you have to worry about survival, never mind retirement.

In communism you work for a state for your working life. You assume that your retirement is taken care of. Before you get there it goes belly up and you have to worry about survival, never mind retirement.

So what's the difference? Enlighten me.

[Revi]

Thanks, Eastbay.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'T')hanks, Eastbay.

[kjmclark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JPL', 'N')othing personal, but you sound very antagonistic. Socialism is not something the rest of the world has a problem with. Most of Europe, China, India, etc are already Socialist. Even the USA's beloved partner in crime (Britian) has a Socialist government.

[kjmclark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('venky', 'I')f you are 20 and not a socialist you dont have a heart

If you are 40 and not a conservative you dont have a brain.

Cant remember who said that, Churchill maybe.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xerces', 'W')hy is communism so appealing to young people?

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xerces', ' ')a generation of young people sacrificed their youth and energy for the corrupt goals of handful of political power-brokers. In the end those people woke up in their 30s with no money, no skills, and was totally abandoned by their own government. And that was why he stopped believing that communism could work.

I'm interested in hearing everyone's opinion on this matter?

[deMolay]

To speak to the original question, young people are idealist. They also are not taught very much actual history anymore. They are taught relativism and the brainwashing starts at a young age. They are also not taught to think and speak for themselves. The majority of the teachers at all levels are leftwing and socialist leaning especially in the Universities. After they have had to take care of themselves for a while they start to clue in, that every country that adopted full blown Socialism as in National Socialist Party of Germany. Or Communism as in Russia or China usually ended up murdering an awful lot of their own citizens. In the hundreds of millions. As bad as Capitalism is it never reached the levels of butchery of either Socialism or Communism.

[Minvaren]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'T')o speak to the original question, young people are idealist. They also are not taught very much actual history anymore. They are taught relativism and the brainwashing starts at a young age. They are also not taught to think and speak for themselves. The majority of the teachers at all levels are leftwing and socialist leaning especially in the Universities.

[AlexdeLarge]

"Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy."

Mao Tse-tung

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'T')o speak to the original question, young people are idealist. They also are not taught very much actual history anymore. They are taught relativism and the brainwashing starts at a young age. They are also not taught to think and speak for themselves. The majority of the teachers at all levels are leftwing and socialist leaning especially in the Universities. After they have had to take care of themselves for a while they start to clue in, that every country that adopted full blown Socialism as in National Socialist Party of Germany. Or Communism as in Russia or China usually ended up murdering an awful lot of their own citizens. In the hundreds of millions. As bad as Capitalism is it never reached the levels of butchery of either Socialism or Communism.

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '.')..It's much easier to make friends when you're young because that's when you are most attractive and sociable - by nature!
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[MOCKBA]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xerces', 'O')n election night, I was hanging out with a group of friends. And we were basically discussing some of the wealth re-distribution plans that Obama was proposing. I strongly disapprove of such methods and very quickly found out that nearly all of my friends were for it. In short, almost all of a group of educated mid-20s people were supporting a government that would give them money that they didn't earn.

[Snowrunner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xerces', 'I')'m interested in hearing everyone's opinion on this matter?

[MOCKBA]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Snowrunner', 'R')ead a history book, it has happened several times before, and it will happen again.

[Quinny]

because they haven't yet been corrupted by the system...

because they're not yet hooked on 'money'...

because contrary to Demolay's points, they use their brain better than narrow minded old people....

because they go to college and meet students and their parents from rich familes who are nowhere near as bright as they are and question why?

because their mates who are working in a factory because their parents need them to earn are twice as clever as their middle/upper class college mates who will probably end up running the country....

I believe the original question needs the word 'educated' inserting between the words 'to' and 'young'. In my experience the young people at college / university can see that the world system is broke and the injustice of exporting death to the third world is unsustainable, so they look for answers and like Carhole start to read Marx ((btw) its very heavy reading, but you should really take a look at Das Kapital). Young people who hang round my local pubs/ village don't tend to find communism attractive.

The appeal is to thinking people of all ages not to youth!

Older people who've managed to get together a small stake in 'the system' tend to be scared of losing it. In times like this when all they've worked for disappears they will start to radicalise as well.

[mkwin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s many posters have echoed, communism is appealing to the youth because it is a wonderful ideal, until you realize that (current) human nature will not allow it to occur.