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Dylan is a budding YouTuber who believes communism could save the United States.

Its 2017 and the communist revolution is being spearheaded online by a 10-year-old vegetarian with a preference for red shirts and a lot to say. If you frequent Reddit, Dylan, or Sceneable as hes known on YouTube, might have come into your sphere last week after his video, We Need Communism, climbed to the top of the socialism subreddit declaring him the smollest comrade.

If you havent yet been introduced to Dylan, well then, you are in for a treat. Select All caught up with the fourth grader via phone (with his dad also on the line) to discuss his political opinions, newfound viral fame, and his thoughts on President Trump.

Lets start by talking a bit about your channel, Dylan. How long have you been on YouTube? Well, I first uploaded my first video in March of 2015, but my original channel actually started out because there was a comment I wanted to leave. My channel was actually made in 2013.

What was the comment you wanted to leave that got you to join YouTube? I forget.

Then two years later you decided to start posting your own videos. What was the first video you uploaded?Um, well it was about a topic I cant I dont even have the energy or the will to talk about okay, so I used to like Pokmon. Im not interested in it anymore, and it was a video about that.

So youre totally over Pokmon now? I guess you probably didnt play Pokmon Go last summer then. No, that came out in 2016, and my video was in 2015.

You were way over Pokmon at that point.Oh, definitely. Definitely.

Ive watched lots of your videos, and I saw one where you talk about changing the name of your channel to Sceneable. Can you tell me about why you decided to change the name? I dont know. I just liked it better.

In the video, you talked a little bit about how you used to be emo, but now youre more scene. Can you explain what that means? I dont want to talk about that. I just dont want to.

Okay, no worries. How do you pick your video topics? A lot of times it just comes from inspiration in me. Fear, rage, disgust a lot of it is triggered by emotions.

So one of your big topics and obviously how a lot of people, myself included, have found your videos via Reddit is communism. What sparked your interest in communism? One day, I heard about it and so I found out more about it. I found out about its history of being, um it started when I first heard about communism and the idea of nations sharing the wealth. Oftentimes, schools just spread this propaganda about it being a bad thing, and say you shouldnt question it and you shouldnt think about the fact that it brings money to people who need it; you should just go along with the fact that its inherently evil, even though it would stop the problem of having so many poor people.

So thats what you like most about communism? The idea that wealth would be shared with poorer people? Yeah. Exactly. You got it in just one sentence.

But is there anything about communism that concerns you?Well, in the first video about communism I ever made, I said that I really dont like people like Joseph Stalin and or Mikhail Gorbachev however you say his name. People like that are people I could not support ever, which is why socialism is probably better than communism Im realizing.

Thats tricky. Somebody always has to lead and be at the top. Right. Leaders can definitely corrupt an idea. I mean, come one, lets think about Trump.

What do you think of President Trump? Um, how do I put this nicely [shouts into the phone] HES A BIG, FAT JOKE.

Thats putting it nicely, I guess. What concerns you the most about Trump? Starvation, stereotypes, war, but theyre just little problems.

You talk a lot about different forms of government, youve got some strong opinions of Trump, is politics something you could see yourself getting involved in as an adult? Yeah.

If you were president, what would be the first thing youd do? Okay, um, how about first of all, Id change capitalism to communism in a nanosecond. Actually, socialism. Not communism. Then Id move the troops out of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

Sounds like youve given this some thought.Definitely.

Youve got almost 20,000 followers on YouTube, and youve been posting videos for years, so Im guessing youve faced a fair number of trolls. I have found so many people who dont like me. Who just cannot believe me. A lot of them are people who completely hate communism with either very little facts or no facts. They call it stealing. If stealing and sharing were the same thing, theyd probably be the same word. I think people need to remember definitions are important.

Do you get a lot of positive feedback too? Definitely. I think this was on my video criticizing how people say God can be omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient at the same time, which is one of my most popular videos. I forget the users name who left this comment, but he said, and I quote, This kid needs to be the president of every country.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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