With the election of Zohran Mamdani to the office of Mayor of New York, an event thought practically impossible just a few decades ago has come to pass: the most populous city in the United States and the centre of the financial world has an avowed socialist as its mayor.
His victory speech possessed themes that the observers of nations with strong communist and socialist parties would find deeply familiar.
“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no problem to small for government to care about”.
