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by hexagone 2193 days ago
"Millennials are the most informed..."

Millennials have least overlap with a living example of Communism. A turning point in Orwell's life came when he visited USSR. There's no USSR for a millennial to visit and validate his/her theories, College campus politics doesn't challenge them enough.
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sudosysgen 2193 days ago
Orwell was opposed to the USSR when he realized their imperialism, not when he realized that socialism was a bad idea.

In any case, there are living examples of socialism right now. They are small in scale, but seem to be better than capitalism. Millennial socialism is also much closer to the socialism of George Orwell in any case, because it is much more libertarian than that of the 1900s.

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akvadrako 2193 days ago
Where are you talking about? Cuba, Venezuela?
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sudosysgen 2193 days ago
Modern experiments would be Rojava, the Zapatistas, and so on.

Venezuela never got even close to socialism due to frankly stupid economic policy, their share of private enterprise was even higher than France, and Cuba while much better than comparable South American states is not modern, nor an experiment.

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