I recently came across a statistic that sent chills down my spine, having been born in a communist country. According to a recent Cato Institute Survey, four in ten (38%) 18-to-29-year-olds (and almost a third of 30-to-44-year-olds) are favorable towards communism. Communism’s appeal among Gen Z is twice as high as among 45-54 year olds, and three times as high as among those aged 55-64.
Momentarily I was transported back to the economic ruin, stripped supermarket shelves of grey, repressive 1980s communist Bulgaria, and the power outages and hyperinflation that followed in the 1990s in the post-communist Soviet bloc countries.
