Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is on a mission to bring race socialism to New York City. That is not speculation, it’s in his public campaign platform.
“Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighbourhoods.”
Were it a throwaway line designed to appeal to unhappy, dyed-hair baristas and the local faculty lounges, Mamdani might have quietly removed it, but it turns out that it is essential to his vision. When called out on it on live television, he
on the policy while bewilderingly denying it was race-based.
“That is just a description of what we see right now. It’s not driven by race. It’s more of an assessment of what neighbourhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed,” Mamdani stated on NBC News.
Despite the blatant attempt at gaslighting, this could be the start of a tremendous shift in global left-wing politics, considering the influence of the United States. The buildup to race socialism has been decades in the making, and Mamdani could be the politician to make it mainstream.
These ideas have been gaining traction in the West, including in Canada.
The far-left publication Canadian Dimension
a column in February that called for a wealth tax and explicitly linked it to race: “It’s no secret that extreme wealth in western democracies is overwhelmingly held by white people, and Canada is no exception.”
There is even a
movement arising in North America that argues that white taxpayers should pay higher rates in the name of equity.
For those who want a policy of racial socialism and revolution in the West, Mamdani is their role model for the foreseeable future. If New Yorkers want to consign themselves to stagnation, racial animosity and more bad governance, that is their decision. The burden is on everyone else to reject race socialism wherever it arises.
There is no doubt that Mamdani is a charismatic figure, with a readily deployable smile and a soft millennial bearing that makes him appear rather harmless. It is an excellent shield for a man whose ideology strays sharply from that of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or even Barack Obama.
For all his faults, it is clear that Obama has
albeit very critical, respect for the American Founding Fathers and the country’s constitutional principles. Mamdani’s
has been
by his family, who are heavyweights in the world of far-left academia.
His father in particular, Mahmood Mamdani, is one of the western world’s more well-known scholars in the field of “postcolonial studies,” with a special interest in Africa.
The Africa Report, an award-winning quarterly focusing on the continent’s current affairs,
in June that the Mamdanis were awash with “diasporic intellectualism, where ideas about justice, decolonization and identity were household conversations.”
How exactly did decolonization play out in Africa following the collapse of European rule? There was great enthusiasm for wealth redistribution and the scapegoating of ethnic minorities, led by charismatic figures like Uganda’s Idi Amin and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe.
Following the British departure in 1962, Idi Amin demonized and
the country’s mostly South Asian merchant class in the 1970s, Mamdani’s father among them. Their businesses were expropriated, and their assets confiscated.
In the 1980s in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe
of the remaining white farmers in an attempt to loot and redistribute the wealth associated with it.
Concurrent to that, Mugabe began a
of the country’s sizable Ndebele minority, whom he accused of subversion and sabotage. It resulted in the deaths of up to 30,000 Zimbabwean citizens.
The Ndebele remember it as a time when their people were singled out and slaughtered. Mahmood Mamdani
as one of “massive social change,” in which “very little turmoil” took place. For those who champion decolonization, the violent cleansing of certain ethnic groups is immaterial if it furthers the cause.
According to Africa Report,
“the first to carry the intellectual legacy of postcolonial Africa into the political heart of the West.”
Right now, the West’s cultural zeitgeist is perfectly aligned for the arrival of this sort of decolonial race socialism in New York City.
It is impossible to ignore the newly emerged, constructed narrative of the “colonizers” and the “colonized.” Resentment and the assignment of ancestral guilt are at the core of it, and it has spread throughout the English-speaking world.
Statues of explorers, monarchs and historical business and political leaders are common targets for radicals who despise the countries they helped to found. They have been toppled, smashed or vandalized in Victoria, Hamilton, and Melbourne, usually without legal repercussions.
This fabricated Indigenous-colonizer conflict is not only permissible, but given space in respectable society across Australia, Canada and even Britain. The hustlers are given
television slots or
to vent, and usually receive polite nods from the presenters in return.
In America, Zohran Mamdani’s rise to political stardom is where this wave of racial politics meets the socialist revival spearheaded by
and
, who have wholeheartedly endorsed him.
The politics of the English-speaking world have always been connected, and the United States is its most powerful engine for driving new narratives. Mamdani’s team are
of social media, and his presence is felt well beyond the U.S.
Already, Canadian NDP politicians like
and MP
are falling over each other trying to heap praise upon him.
Gazan, a leading voice
, anti-Western politics in Ottawa, posted on X: “Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York is an inspiring example for how progressives can stand up to establishment liberals or authoritarians like Trump.”
Is it truly sticking it to Trump that has got Gazan and her ilk so fired up, or is it something else?
The majority of people in the U.S., Canada and its peer countries must have the courage to say no to race socialism, with strength and without fear.
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