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Thank you for taking The Atlas Society’s official “Is Socialism Evil?” poll.
Live poll results
Yes — evil
81%
No
19%
Now, will you answer five follow-up questions? Your responses help The Atlas Society direct its resources where they matter most: reaching the next generation with Ayn Rand’s ideas before the collectivists get there first.
The Moral Case Against Socialism
Most critics will tell you socialism “doesn’t work.” True enough, but that misses the point.

Ayn Rand argued that even if socialism “worked” economically (which it doesn’t), it would still be evil… because it is against human nature. It demands that the individual surrender his judgment, his effort, and his achievement to the collective. It doesn’t just fail to produce bread. It punishes the baker for baking.
In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt names the motive behind it all:
“They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die.”
That is not compassion. That is what Rand defined as envy — the hatred of the good for being good.
Do you agree that socialism is evil in principle, not merely a system that fails in practice?
How the Next Generation Was Lost
A March 2025 survey by the Cato Institute and YouGov found that 62% of Americans aged 18–29 view socialism favorably. Months later, Zohran Mamdani won New York City with 78% of voters under 30.

This did not happen by accident. For decades, schools have taught young people that achievement is selfish, that envy is justice, and that the builders are the villains. Meanwhile, the way young people absorb ideas has been transformed: only 12% read fiction daily for fun — down from 70% in the 1970s — while they spend upwards of 9 hours a day online, on platforms run by people who consider individualism a threat.

You cannot fight that with white papers and policy panels. You have to meet young people where they actually are — with content they will actually watch, read, and share.
Do you believe the fight against socialism must reach young people where they are — online, through videos, stories, and art?
Fighting Back with Art and Storytelling
Ayn Rand called art “the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.” The Atlas Society took her at her word.

Instead of lecturing young people, The Atlas Society dramatizes. Our Draw My Life videos — 42 and counting — bring Rand’s life, her heroes, and concepts like envy, victimhood, and socialism itself to vivid first-person life. Its animated book trailer for Atlas Shrugged drew more than 12M views and doubled sales of the novel in the months surrounding its release. Trailers for The Fountainhead and Anthem added 20M+ combined views.

The Atlas Society recruited Marvel Comics superstar Dan Parsons to adapt Rand’s shorter works into graphic novels — nearly 400,000 now in distribution — and built the largest digital audience in the liberty space: 3.3M young minds engaging with Ayn Rand’s ideas.
Do you agree that socialism is evil in principle, not merely a system that fails in practice?
From Viewers to Leaders
Watching one of these videos was always meant to be the beginning of the journey, not the end. The Atlas Society produces content for “skimmers, swimmers, and deep divers”: young people might skim its social media, “swim” with its graphic novels, Pocket Guides, and animated book trailers — all of which invite them to “deep dive” into Rand’s novels and philosophy at length.

For the deep divers, The Atlas Society built Galt’s Gulch — its flagship annual student conference, now welcoming more than 150 students each year — and 22 John Galt Schools, intensive eight-week introductions to Objectivism, running across five continents, from Zimbabwe and India to Peru and Portugal.

Our moonshot goal: engage one billion young minds with the ideas of Ayn Rand.
Do you agree that The Atlas Society’s model — proven, scaling, and on offense — is the right strategy to defeat socialism in the next generation?
Will You Help Us Reach Students Before the Socialists Do?
You have now seen exactly what The Atlas Society is doing. It is not waiting for the universities to reform themselves. It is not politely requesting a seat at the collectivists’ table. It is on offense — reaching millions of young people with a moral philosophy of reason, achievement, individualism, and freedom.
Roughly every $10 you give reaches 2,000 young minds with Ayn Rand’s ideas.
62% of young Americans now view socialism favorably. Every day of delay, the collectivists reach more of them first.
$30,000
Goal to expand videos, graphic novels & student conferences
Plus, when you donate $50 or more, you’ll receive one of JAG’s trademark $ pins — wear it as a small act of defiance.
Friend, will you support The Atlas Society’s mission to liberate the next generation from the ideology of envy?
Complete surveyNot today — but keep me posted on the fight.
In 2020, while other organizations took government bailout money — violating the very principles they publicly touted — The Atlas Society refused. Every young mind it reaches is reached because someone chose to fund the fight. Socialism is on the march. So is The Atlas Society.
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