In August of this year, a Gallup poll found that for the first time
since the organization began tracking the figure, fewer than half of
Americans aged 18–29 had a positive view of capitalism, while more than
half had a positive view of socialism. The percentage of young people
viewing capitalism positively fell from 68 percent in 2010 to 45 percent
this year, a 23-percentage point drop in just eight years.
This surge in interest in socialism is bound up with a resurgence of
class struggle in the US and internationally. In the United States, the
number of major strikes so far this year, 21, is triple the number in
2017. The ruling class was particularly terrified by the teachers’
walkouts earlier this year because the biggest strikes were organized by
rank-and-file educators in a rebellion against the unions, reflecting
the weakening grip of the pro-corporate organizations that have suppressed the class struggle for decades.
-- Barry Grey, "The specter of Marx haunts the American ruling class" (WSWS).