Why millennials are drawn to socialism

[Edwardo Piet]

I think another possibility is perhaps that Karl Marx's communism was never actually tried out in practice: Tyrants and laypeople got hold of an oversimplified and cartoonized version of it. As far as I'm aware Karl Marx's version has never actually been tried. Maybe it's not realistic, but if compromising what he suggested for something more 'realistic' leads to unworkable and immoral crap Marx himself would never agree with... then it's not really fair to say it's been tried.

I read a book called "A History of Europe" that said that the Soviet Union's Communism turned into a sort of State Capitalism. It's just I don't know what else to call it but Communism.

That's just it. It's kind of a misnomer.

Let's just say that Karl Marx's philosophy wasn't put into practice and yet he often gets the blame for it. What we call "communism" today isn't the acting out of Marx's communist manifesto.

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The baby boomers on the other hand got all those, at least in the UK, and still get to buy all the shiny gadgets.