New York City's next mayor will be Zohran Mamdani, who is not merely an extreme left progressive but an actual democratic socialist. It would be a mistake to underemphasize the radical nature of this ideology.

And yet, that's precisely what some in the media are doing. The BBC, for instance, featured an infographic that described Mamdani's democratic socialism as an ideology "which has no clear definition but essentially means giving a voice to workers, not corporations."

That's an extremely evasive way of describing a radical political vision. No one would say that national socialism—the ideology of the German Nazi Party—had no clear definition and implied only good things about the empowerment of the working class.

It is not difficult to understand what is meant by the term democratic

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