{"id":89403,"date":"2025-03-21T22:53:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=89403"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:22:52","slug":"why-are-more-and-more-young-people-turning-their-back-on-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/why-are-more-and-more-young-people-turning-their-back-on-capitalism","title":{"rendered":"Why are more and more young people turning their back on Capitalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Cardiff student leads a campus movement calling for abandoning Capitalism. What exactly makes young generations so concerned?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/1111-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Communism has very deep roots in British history. Today, there are still communist parties active in the UK. In 2024, the British communist party contested 14 seats, it&#8217;s the most since its founding in 1988.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the glow of Cardiff University\u2019s common room, Alice stands tall before a camera with unwavering determination. \u201cKick capitalism off the campus!\u201d she shouted, her passionate supporters raised their fists and waved red flags, their voices echoing with chants of solidarity. This is more than just a gathering, it is a movement in the making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alice Nicholson is a 21-year-old student activist at the forefront of the growing campus movement. She records and posts videos everyday, dramatic words drawing hundreds of comments within hours, some in fervent agreement, others branding her \u201cdangerously radical.\u201d But none of this shakes her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her message is simple. \u201cCapitalism is failing young people, and communism is the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was always very frustrated with how politics was going everywhere,&#8221; Alice explains. &#8220;I looked into every different political angle and found that Marxism could explain exactly why these problems exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/\u672a\u6807\u9898-2-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alice called for an end to the marketization of education and demanded financial transparency from Cardiff University management.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Alice, capitalism\u2019s core flaw lies in what Marxists call the \u201ccrisis of overproduction\u201d, where goods are produced in abundance, but the working class cannot afford to buy them. She argues the result is an unequal system in which the ruling class profits while ordinary people are left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She draws inspiration from historical revolutions, particularly the Bolsheviks of the Russian Revolution, who were the first to implement a planned economy. \u201cWe base ourselves off the Bolsheviks from the Russian Revolution,\u201d Alice says. \u201cCommunism would be a classless, moneyless, and stateless society. That is the end goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she believes that mass mobilisation should come before any of that. \u201cWe need to connect with as many students and workers as possible,\u201d Alice says. \u201cThere has to be a united movement across higher education that stands against university cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Bolshevik project sought to realise an extravagant social goal that some at the time called \u201cutopian\u201d.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Building a brand-new social system in the UK seems to be a far abstract aspiration, but so too was Brexit. Communism is not only desirable but feasible for Alice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople think that the UK is too conservative or something. But I think it is definitely possible,\u201d Alice says. \u201cLook at the Palestine movement, millions of people took to the streets in London. And last year, junior doctors and nurses went on strike. That was a turning point. We\u2019ll see more unions, more strikes, more industrial action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alice is currently running for Cardiff University\u2019s Student Union President. Her platform revolves around three key demands, ending the marketization and privatization of education, ensuring financial transparency by demanding university management \u201copen the books,\u201d and giving students and workers control over how the university is run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This disenchantment with the current system is not just Alice\u2019s personal belief, but now a growing sentiment among young people across the UK. According to the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) report, nearly eight out of 10 young Britons blame capitalism for the housing crisis and climate change, two-thirds want to live under a socialist economic system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think for many young people, they only seen capitalism in crisis, capitalism has never given them anything good.\u201d Alice says, \u201cSince the 2008 financial crash, the world economy has never really recovered. Young people look around and see failing schools, unaffordable housing, endless war, and austerity. They have no hope in the [capitalism] system at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/IMG_5902-1-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Young people in the UK face record-high rental pressure, with renters under 45 paying \u00a33.5 billion more in rent over two years, totaling \u00a356.2 billion annually. Illustration: Chenyu Zou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What might have once been a fringe belief has now become more of a \u201cfashion statement\u201d in youth discourse in the UK. According to YouGov polling, only around 36% of young people had a favorable view of socialism in 2018. However, Intercardiff found a significant shift, 67% of young Britons favor a socialist economic system, According to a survey by IEA. This represents a 90% increase in socialist support within less than a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She identifies housing and healthcare as prime examples. \u201cWe have a housing crisis, yet there are more empty homes than homeless people. Sections of the NHS are being privatized for profit unnecessarily.\u201dAlice says. \u201cif we had a planned economy, we could immediately have the NHS back up to support everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This shift in sentiment isn\u2019t confined to the UK. A global study by the Fraser Institute shows rising youth support for socialism in Canada, the United States, and Australia as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alice sees her campaign as part of a broader, international awakening. \u201cAt the moment, the campaign is about reaching as many people as possible, explaining our ideas, and helping them spread.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the UK, student-led movements are demanding radical change. Despite online backlash and criticism, Alice\u2019s message continues to resonate. Socialist and communist student groups are now active in almost every major university\u2014and their influence is growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s good all of the comments because it means that the video will get pushed to more people and more young people will find it who are looking for answers about the world,\u201d Alice says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"Alice believe Communism is definitely feasible in the UK\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8dAScE_a9Oc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Alice believe Communism is definitely feasible in the UK\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8dAScE_a9Oc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cardiff student leads a campus movement calling for abandoning Capitalism. 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