The ones I've come in contact with were rather studious and probably destined for decent enough jobs. Kids who want to party their college years away generally do so without making much of a fuss about politics or showing up at lectures.Seth wrote:Yup, dilettante pseudo-intellectual college students who don't understand the value of self-ownership and hard work because they've been given virtually everything they've ever had and they are mad at mommy and daddy for demanding that they actually apply them selves in school rather than allowing them to party and smoke pot. Such mindlessness is very susceptible to the propaganda of Marxism.Robert_S wrote:Hoy far does this get? Do they overthrow the government and lynch the bankers? Or are they just co-opted into more more center left movements? The last socialist meeting I went to was just some 15 - 20 kids; not a calloused hand in the room.Coito ergo sum wrote:That's patently not true. In the wealthiest countries of the world, we still get communist agitation and much of it comes from well-to-do folks who haven't been abused by any "capitalists" in their lives.Robert_S wrote:If the capitalists would treat the average worker better, then socialist and communist wouldn't get any further than small meetings on college campuses.
No, for these kids (they took notes and everything) it seemed to come down to having a sense of social justice. I attended the first lecture to listen to a woman give a talk about the invasions of privacy and other violations of civil liberties during the abortion prohibition days. It was an enlightening presentation, but did not have much in the way of economic theory. I went back a few more times, but got bored by the high density of overly doctrine infused viewpoints.
