The era of City Socialism has been inaugurated in America

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On January 1, two Socialist elected Mayors took office in America, on the opposite coasts. Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim Socialist took office in New York City, which has the highest concentration of Jews outside Israel. In Seattle, Katie Wilson, a 43-year-old Socialist, who has no experience in the working world or in government and has an unemployed husband, took office.

Here are a couple of remarks from Mamdani in NYC.

Let’s explore the “Warmth of Collectivism”, shall we? Let’s start in the most “collectivist” country in the world, North Korea. After World War II, the Soviets took over the North and introduced communism. After the Korean War (where over 2 million people perished) was halted in 1953, The Kim family took over and ruled the country with an iron hand (no velvet glove, just the iron hand). The quote below is from the web site “Communist Crimes”.

Agrarian reform, launched in late 1940s, gained momentum after the war and paved way for collectivization, one-party dictatorship and Stalinist-style repressions and purges. The number of executions is unknown, but the ideology provisions of North Korea’s penal code, witness accounts and initial statistics indicate that about 90 000 may have been killed during the 1958-1960 campaign of terror. During 1948-1987, about 1.6-2 million Koreans perished in government-sanctioned repressions. About 100 000 were killed during purges and at least 400,000, but probably more than 1.5 million died in prison camps.

Prisons and camps are just part of a larger repressive network that includes transit jails for dissidents, correctional labour centres, labour camps and deportation zones where as many as 150 000 – 200 000 people are still being kept in concentration-camp conditions. In those facilities, mortality rate is estimated at 100 per day or 36 500 a year. The UN indicated in 1997 that during a 1990s famine, which the government could have well avoided, more than 10 million suffered from malnutrition and hundreds of thousands starved to death. Other estimates put the death toll at 2 million or more.

Systematic human rights violations and crimes against humanity are committed on a daily basis. Minorities such as disabled people enjoy no protection whatsoever. „Enemies of the people” and other dissidents are publicly executed under political crimes provisions of the penal code. In 2002, North Korea admitted to the abduction of hundreds of South Koreans and Japanese.

Now, does the above quote sound much like warmth to you? I don’t know what Mamdani has in mind when he talks about the warmth of collectivism, but to me that might mean the fires of hell. Here are some photos of collectivism from the collectivist paradises of Soviet Russia, Communist China, and North Korea.

Above is an image of a collective farm in Soviet Russia. Millions of Russians and Ukrainians died in the Great Famine.

Bread lines in Soviet Russia

And in North Korea?

Today, North Koreans are much shorter and lighter-weight than their South Korean neighbors, due to a constant low-level of malnutrition and food shortages. Kim Jong Un has refused international offers of food aid, preferring to keep his people starving. They are less likely to revolt if they are kept weak. Literally weak.

This photo is the best illustration of the “warmth” of North Korean collectivism.

In Communist China after the 1949 revolution, Mao Zedong and his cronies instituted forced collectivization, with disastrous results.

In ideological terms, collectivisation was intended to exert greater control on the lives of PRC citizens, making sure they conformed to government directives. This put a great strain on family life. Moreover, the three year famine was a tragic end to the first 10 years of Maoist China. [quote from Chinese History for Teachers at omeka.net]

In modern Communist China, conditions aren’t as bad as under Mao, due to the reforms under Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, dictator Xi Jinping is rapidly reversing those reforms, instituting the vise-grip of the Social Credit system, causing homelessness if people engage in “wrongthink” or other anti-government activity.

However, China still can’t totally feed itself, and must import large quantities of food each year. Due to the disastrous “one child” policy, its population is shrinking also, causing some unrest.

So much for the Warmth of Collectivism. I feel sorry for the people of New York City. They are about to find out exactly what Communism entails. The exodus of people and businesses has already begun, though even those who leave will be hounded by the New York tax authorities for a long times (as per Rush Limbaugh, who had his own story to tell about leaving NYC).

As for Seattle, here is a statement from the new Mayor Katie Wilson.

Most Somali childcare “providers” in Washington, as in Minnesota, are fake, have few or no children under their care, and are fraudulently receiving thousands of taxpayer dollars for providing nothing. This is patently obvious, if you consider that ALL Somalis are Muslim, and virtually none of their veiled women work outside the home. If you were an ordinary Seattleite, would you trust a Muslim woman with your children even for a day?

What the people of Seattle are thinking right now about their new mayor.

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