The Communist Issue 16 - August/September 2025

The United States is becoming fertile ground for the ideas of communism.   According to recent polls by the right-wing Cato institute, 62% of Americans under 30 have a favorable view of socialism, while 34% have a favorable view of communism.   In America—the richest country in the world—workers and youth have known nothing but crisis and instability. We have seen a handful of billionaires multiply their wealth while the vast majority toils away from year to year, under increasingly more difficult conditions. Young people see an increasingly grim future, as they watch mega-corporations and imperialist powers destroy the world through endless wars and environmental destruction.   In this context, workers are looking for political alternatives to the status-quo. Trump managed to temporarily tap into this growing class rage, but his cross-class coalition is rapidly breaking apart. So far, he has slashed Medicaid and food stamps and has totally failed to end the “forever wars.” Last mont