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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3004284" data-attributes="member: 56035">This is very important firstly because capitalism is an imperfect (not even ideal in my books) system, and secondly it was the american socialists, communists, and unions which forced FDR to pass the new deal during the great depression.<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/08/04/dsa-democratic-socialists-convention-record-membership-chicago/" target="_blank">Democratic Socialists of America Celebrate Record Membership in Chicago. Now What?</a>The Democratic Socialists of America are meeting there this week as part of the group’s biannual convention. In the wake of a surge of new interest over the past year, the organization <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/892411970686726145" target="_blank">announced</a> earlier this week that it now has 25,000 dues-paying members — a historic peak for the group that makes it the largest socialist organization in the country since World War II.David Duhalde, DSA’s Deputy Director, was brought on by the organization in 2015. He told The Intercept that shortly before the November election, the organization had between 7,000 to 8,000 members. On November 9, they started seeing supporters of Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential run and others flooding into DSA....Polling done earlier this year by the American Culture & Faith Institute found that <a href="https://www.culturefaith.com/acfi-survey-reveals-details-about-the-ideology-gap-separating-americans/" target="_blank">37 percent</a> of American adults now say they prefer socialism to capitalism. Among millennials, the divide is even sharper. A Harvard University survey taken last year found that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/26/a-majority-of-millennials-now-reject-capitalism-poll-shows/?utm_term=.b2b6496cb777" target="_blank">51 percent of respondents</a> between the ages of 18 and 29 no longer say they support capitalism.</blockquote>

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