The democratic socialist mayor of New York City gave his personal definition of socialism while on a podcast this week, and many found it to be naive and unserious.
On Thursday’s episode of his “This Past Weekend” podcast, comedian Theo Von asked Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to define socialism.
‘That’s not socialism, that’s fantasy.’
“I want to talk a little bit about socialism, right, because it’s a buzzword, right?” Von said. “… Will you define socialism for us? Because people say it a lot and don’t know what it is. And sometimes, those people are me.”
Mamdani laughed.
“I’m so happy to be with those people right now,” he responded.
“Socialism, to me, it means that you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is
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