New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani attends a press conference in the Queens borough of New York on November 5, 2025. Kylie Cooper/Reuters

New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was the Democratic party’s candidate in the election, but he proudly describes himself as a democratic socialist alongside left-wing lawmakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Mamdani quoted the most famous American socialist, Eugene Debs , in his acceptance speech Tuesday night and talked about doing more for “working people” as opposed to the rich.

There’s a fair amount of confusion and fear generated in the US by the term “socialist,” which is associated with repressive societies like Communist China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USS

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