LEFT TURN AHEAD? - Surveying attitudes of young people towards capitalism and socialism

The absence of a well-thought-out alternative, combined with the risks associated with leaving and the fact that most opponents of the EU were simply not passionate enough about the issue, were deemed sufficient to guarantee Britain’s place in the EU. [...] Of these tribes, the one that comes closest to the stereotype of the ‘woke socialist Millennial’ is the ‘Democratic Socialists’, with the ‘Progressives’ not that far behind. [...] Finally, like Opinium in the study discussed above, the authors also perform a cluster analysis to split the population into five different political ‘tribes’, which they label the ‘Cosmopolitan Critics’, the ‘Left Behind’, the ‘Disengaged Pessimists’, the ‘Optimistic Centrists’ and the ‘Right of Centre Traditionalists’. [...] The authors do not provide an exact demographic breakdown, but they note that the majority of the people in the pro-capitalist camp are over the age of 55, while about half of the people in the anti-capitalist camp are under the age of 45. [...] The first of these is, of course, a simplified version of the dictionary definition of capitalism, while the second is a simplified version of the dictionary definition of socialism.