There’s a reason that the government schools don’t teach about Mao, Stalin, or Lenin. It’s called Democratic Socialism.
Millenials are aged 25 – 39. In Australia four out of five are not even “familiar” with Mao. Half have never heard of him, even though he caused the deaths of twice as many people as Adolf Hitler.
Political ideologues control our education system. We teach kids identity politics, and how to control the weather with light globes, but not the most important political lesson of the 20th Century.
We won the cold war, then lost the peace.
Anxiety plus ignorance: Why Millennials are embracing socialism
Meanwhile, socialism has been resurgent, especially among the so-called Millennial generation: those born between 1982 and 1998. This week’s cover story of The Economist is headed ” The Rise of Millennial Socialism “. Virtually all of America’s Democratic presidential candidates are lurching left and embracing business-bashing populism.