Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Utopian Future?

Doug Bandow Utopia awaits in New York City. Karl Marx has been reincarnated, in spirit if not life, as newly inaugurated Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to use City Hall’s “power to improve New Yorkers’ lives,” especially those who have been “betrayed by the established order.” He promised that “their needs will be met. Their hopes and dreams and interests will be reflected transparently in government.

They will shape our future.” , Not through the complex mix of compassion, conciliation, creativity, cooperation, and conviction that has distinguished America throughout its history. Instead, through the greatest “c” word, at least to a socialist: collectivism. Explained Mamdani: if “for too long” New York’s many “communities have existed as distinct from one another, we will draw this city close