What do young socialists believe? | Open College No. 33 | Stephen Hicks

The fall of the Soviet Union was a long time ago. Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea are far away. Socialism fell out of favor, but it is attractive to the young again. But what do they believe that socialism is about? What arguments against socialism might they find convincing?
Dr. Hicks would like to ask young socialists two questions: what does socialism mean to you? and what is the appeal of socialism?
He then looks at some of the positions people offer for their attraction to socialism:
1) Opposition to the current system: money, power and its cronyism,
2) Moral idealism-thinking of others first, altruism, selflessness,
3) Modern, scientific centralized management of the economy,
4) Free stuff socialism,
5) Robust communalism-putting society first,
6) Prioritize the needs of the poor and weak: welfare statism,
7) Resource management-environmentalism,
8) Emotional commitment.
For some time, Professor Hicks has been doing a philosophical analysis podcast on a wide range of contemporary topics. It has been available on a number of other platforms. It is now being offered on KZbin as well. Its mission is to “ to explain the chaos.”
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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[@IBuildItHome]

It comes down to what version of programming most appeals to them, since there's very little thinking involved. They grow up exposed to a completely one-sided view of the world and fall into the category that they like the best. They are unaware of the other side of the argument in real terms, or they've been so negatively biased against it that it has set up a Pavlovian type response of distaste whenever they are presented with a point of view that they think is on the "bad" side. So in reality, they believe what they are instructed to believe, with only a token illusion of choice. They are shaped by every piece of information they find, which is (at this point) almost entirely biased in one direction.

[@TheWhitehiker]

just so.

[@roastmaster2000]

You definitely missed: The utopia that I'll involved in the decision making class socialism.

[@StephenHicksPhilosopher]

Other Open College episodes:  Free Speech: Why the Philosophy Matters. Episode #1  Violent Politics: The Lesson of Marxism. Episode #2  Conservatives Are Not Free-Market Capitalists. Episode #3  The Dim Ruins of the Enlightenment? Episode #4  Conservatives: Get Over the Dark Ages. Episode #5  Nietzsche’s Sister and *The Will to Power*. Episode #6  Your Sex Life Under Socialism. Episode #7

[@noone8418]

It’s based in a Peter Pan Syndrome.