Liberals and progressives are celebrating Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory as proof that New York City is ready for a “democratic socialist” revolution.
They’re badly in need of a history lesson: Every socialist revolution has failed and set back the goals it meant to accomplish.
Everywhere it has been tried, socialism has meant economic decay at best and mass death at worst.
The global death toll from socialism and communism is roughly 100 million souls.
Whether the victims died in Stalinist gulags, Mao’s Great Leap famine or Pol Pot’s “killing fields,” the underlying logic was the same: When the state owns everything, the individual owns nothing — not even his life.
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Santiago Vidal Calvo is a Cities policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute.
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