If young adults are half baked then children are raw, and yes you can project lots of things onto them quite easily look at that little boy who said he was voting UKIP as he wanted immigrants out.
It's important they are taught that as well as hard work empathy and social and moral reasoning should come into play in problem solving and decision making.
Orwell did predict it, he also predicted that we would be entirely complicit and we are.
He saw it because he lived on both sides ...
'For perhaps ten years past I have had some grasp of the real nature of capitalist society. I have seen British imperialism at work in Burma, and I have seen something of the effects of poverty and unemployment in Britain…. One has got to be actively a Socialist, not merely sympathetic to Socialism, or one plays into the hands of our always-active enemies.
– George Orwell, “Why I Joined the Independent Labour Party”
http://www.biographyonline.net/socialism-george-orwell/