The spectre of communism haunts the West — Mamdani is only the beginning

The surprisingly easy election of the Marxist Zohran Mamdani represents a critical turning point, not only for my hometown of New York, but for all the West. Mamdani’s election as mayor represents the prospect of a rising socialist mindset, particularly among the young.

This shift is fairly universal, particularly in big cities. Virtually all the leading U.S. and European cities are ruled by progressives, in Europe, like New York, often as an odd alliance of Islamists, greens and leftists. Socialists, Islamists and Greens dominated such major European cities as Amsterdam , Paris , and Barcelona . Toronto , once ruled by moderate conservatives, has also turned to the progressive left.

Neither ethnicity nor class are the keys to this transition, but age. Mamdani’s election epitomiz