Millennial socialism is a resurgence of interest in democratic socialism and social democracy among Americans and Britons born in the 1980s and later, generationally known as millennials and Generation Z. Background American millennials and Generation Z are much more supportive of socialist politics and economic redistribution than prior generations. Some American millennials support policies that would widen social safety nets and provide relief for student debt and health care costs. In multiple late 2010s polls, young Americans viewed socialism positively and had a far less favorable view of capitalism than their forebears. According to a 2021 Axios poll, 49% of Americans aged 18 to 34 viewed capitalism positively, compared to 58% in 2019. Capitalism, increasingly dissociated from its connotations of American success during the Cold War, developed an association with corporate greed, exacerbating climate change, and inherited wealth. Surveys from the UK show similar results. Some commentators and researchers, such as James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute and Emily Ekins of the Cato Institute, have argued that millennial support for socialism can be more accurately described as support for social democracy, as opposed to socialism as traditionally conceived (e.g, a planned economy). As a generation, American millennials grew up with political discussions about class and inequality, the youngest millennials having been teenagers during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement. Young Americans generally face worse economic prospects than their forebears, including worse cost of living, debt, career opportunities, and social services. A 2019 SuperMoney report showed that average millennial income growth is flat after inflation. Similar observations have been made of British millennials, with a 2021 IEA survey finding nearly 8 out of 10 younger Britons blaming unchecked capitalism for Britain's housing shortage. Electoral politics The American democratic socialist politicians Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have wide support among millennials, with 70% saying they'd be supportive of a socialist candidate. A 2019 YouGov poll showed a majority of millennial and Generation Z respondents as likely to vote for a socialist candidate and millennial voters in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary preferred the democratic socialist candidate Sanders over eventual winner Joe Biden by 20 percentage points. Throughout the late 2010s, millennials revitalized the aging Democratic Socialists of America from a marginalized advocacy group to 100,000 members nationwide. Sanders and millennial socialists invoke the Nordic model as an alternative, in which taxes on capitalist markets and a significant portion of take-home income