"Oh, the times they are a changin'!" The author provides evidence that the younger generation is much less influenced by neoliberal indoctrination than older folks. This development may pose possibilities for the 99 Percent and problems for the One Percent. Also, he found evidence in relation to research on Russia that academics are guided by political considerations if they do not produce the right results in their research.
The bogeys of one generation fail to have the same effect on the next; now that two decades have passed since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a powerful bogey is becoming less of a talisman for capitalists and the politicians who love them. Thus it is not surprising that polls show that young people are more open to socialism than their parents — the concrete realities of the debt-saturated, limited vistas that today’s economy offers them can not fail to grab their attention.
