The Youth Are the Vanguard
By Scott Williams posted on December 23, 2020
A talk given at a “Young Communists Speak: Why Join a Revolutionary Party?” webinar sponsored by Workers World Party on Dec. 10.
We are gathered here today to talk about the crisis facing young workers and the intense radicalization of younger generations here in the heart of the empire.
It is clear that young people today carry the entire weight of a collapsing capitalist system on their backs.
By every measure, young people are doing much worse than their parents’ generations.
One of the ways we see this every day is the war on young people’s mental health, which, by every statistic, has drastically deteriorated. We’ve seen skyrocketing suicide rates. Rates of depression are 20 times greater than they were in our grandparents’ time. (tinyurl.com/y7l4lgvk)