# Stephen Hicks: What do Young Socialists Believe?
1. Anti-cronyistic:
- Opposition to the current system: money, power and its cronyism
2. Moral Idealism:
- thinking of others first, altruism and selflessness
3. Modern/Scientific Centralized Management of the Economy
4. Free Stuff Socialism
5. Robust Communalism
6. Welfare Statism
7. Sustainable Resource Management
8. Emotional

## 1. Anti Cronyism
- Opposition to current system
- Anti-corruption
- Capitalistic economic system with free markets which make lots of money
  - Disparity and Corruption
  - Cheating
  - Underhanded dealing
  - Riches to political influence / corruption
- Dominantly capitalist system means cronymism is through incentive relations of capitalists
- Necessary result or unintended consequence of the current capitalist system

## 2.