The Hill -Nearly half of millennial Democrats say they identify as a socialist or democratic socialist, according to a new poll from BuzzFeed News and Maru/Blue.
Almost half, 48 percent, said they would call themselves a democratic socialist or socialist, compared to 39 percent who said they identified as neither.
The percentages were lower among Republican millennials, with 23 percent saying they would call themselves a democratic socialist or socialist, and 71 percent saying neither.
Nearly twice as many millennials said they at least leaned toward Democrats instead of Republicans, 48 to 25 percent.
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In 1875, at the first meeting of the German Social Democratic Party, Eduard Bernstein and others claimed that the capitalism could be reformed to meet working class interests, By championing gradual, ethically-inspired reforms they rejected socialism's revolutionary and materialist foundations. Marx wrote a caustic critique of the program claiming that it made too many compromises with the status quo. Today, the spectre haunting the likes of Glenn Beck as well as some Democrats is not that of socialism/ communism/Marxism but social democracy. He, Bernie and Ocasio-Cortez are clueless. During one of her interviews she at ‘first tried to argue there was a significant difference between her beliefs and socialism.’ Indeed, but finding herself in a hole she started digging: ‘… there’s a huge difference between socialism and Democratic socialism .. .Democratic socialism, and really what that boils down to me, is the basic belief that I believe that in a moral and wealthy America and a moral and modern America, no person should be too poor to live in this country’ (Free Beacon, 29 June).
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