The Marx United States The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is one of the most significant events in American history. Given that Mamdani identifies as a “socialist,” his victory in the “capital of capitalism ,” home to Wall Street and the corporations that dominate the global economy, is, on the one hand, what The New York Times described as a “wave of discontent against the system .” On the other hand, Mamdani’s victory underscores what we at the Marx International have been asserting: that there is a leftward shift among mass sectors of the world,…
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