With Identity Politics on the Defensive in Universities, Marxism Continues to Thrive

The newly elected Democrat candidate for mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, is a perfect exemplar of an American college graduate: an antisemitic communist. Mamdani, who refuses to disavow “globalize the intifada” (which means “kill Jews wherever you find them”), says the ultimate goal is to “seize the means of production,” the foundational strategy of communism. It is noteworthy that Mamdani was not elected by the poor or the rich, but by the middle-class college-educated, young professional managers struggling in high-priced New York.

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Mamdani graduated from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Africana studies. But he was also situated in the Ivy League, his father being a professor at Columbia University. Of course, not all North American university graduates are genocidal antisemitic

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