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The major election year 2026 kicks off with a new mayor taking over Gotham on Jan. 1. From Sacramento to Minneapolis to New York, some candidates are peddling Karl Marx. The most glaring example is Zohran Mamdani , who pledges innumerable freebies and has called for "seizing the means of production."

What are we to make of this " pop Marxism "? What is its appeal?

It is "pop" in two senses of the word. It is popular in that it is shallow while presenting as novel and exciting. It is populist in a braying pretense of familiarity, its calls for costless gratification and its gratuitous attacks on the status quo.

Underneath the ‘pop’ lies a dangerous ideology. Call it Marxism, socialism or communism – they aim f

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