share this story Young people -- the collegiate and post-college crowd, who have served as the most visible face of the Occupy Wall Street movement -- might be getting more comfortable with socialism . That's the surprising result from a Pew Research Center poll that aims to measure American sentiments toward different political labels. The poll, published Wednesday, found that while Americans overall tend to oppose socialism by a strong margin -- 60 percent say they have a negative view of it, versus just 31 percent who say they have a positive view -- socialism has more fans than opponents among the 18-29 crowd . Forty-nine percent of people in that age bracket say they have a positive view of socialism; only 43 percent say they have a negative view. And while those numbers aren't very far apart, it's noteworthy that they were reversed just 20 months ago , when Pew conducted a similar poll. In that survey, published May 2010, 43 percent of people age 18-29 said they had a positive view of socialism, and 49 percent said their opinion was negative. Indeed, the Pew poll also found that just 46 percent of people age 18-29 have positive views of capitalism, and 47 percent have negative views -- making this the only age group where support for socialism outweighs support for capitalism. Young people have also been among the most involved in the nationwide Occupy movement , whose members have leveled pointed criticism at the capitalist ethos and often