New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has recently argued that the city should become a model “post-capitalist” metropolis — a city that rejects private property structures, redistributes wealth on a systemic scale, and re-engineers civic life around state-managed equity. It is classic Marxist socialism. It is a seductive idea for activists and academics. But we have seen versions of this experiment before in the Western Hemisphere.

We have seen it in Venezuela. We have seen it in Cuba. And we have seen the results: collapse, dependency, and political repression packaged in the language of “justice.” Socialism never results in more freedom or peace.

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