FIELD NOTES from Alexander C. Kaufman

FIELD NOTES from Alexander C. Kaufman

Kim Stanley Robinson on why Green New Dealers should embrace the word ‘socialism’

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Alexander C. Kaufman
Mar 26, 2019
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Fifty-one percent of millennials, now becoming the biggest voting bloc, viewed socialism favorably in a Gallup poll last August, while just 45 percent felt similarly rosy about capitalism. Nearly half of millennial Democrats identify as socialists or democratic socialists, a BuzzFeed News and Maru/Blue survey found two months later.

So why are the Green…

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