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Supercharged by fury over Gaza, they are winning voters at a formidable pace.
Many rose to prominence only recently, like Zach Polanski,
who leads the Green Party in Britain, or Zoran Mamdani, the mayor of New York.
Others are long-standing political fixtures.
The septuagenarian Jean-Luc Mélenchon is on his fourth swing at the French presidency,
but thumping support from the twenty-somethings of Generation Z has put the Elysee back in his sights again.
Call it Gen Z socialism.
Not because all its adherents are young, or because it is new for young people to lean leftward,
but because it is the brand of leftism made for the TikTok era that today's young revolutionaries support.
Forget weighty collectivist ideals or seizing the means of production.
Gen Z socialism is a me-first doctrine.
Climate change and race, preoccupations of the 2010s and early 2020s, are now much more peripheral concerns.
So are social issues, barring Gaza.
Angst about inflation, housing and artificial intelligence have replaced all that with something cruder.
"This country is awash in wealth," says R.V.