
Geoff Russ: Race socialism is coming to the West. It will start in New York
Zohran Mamdani has doubled down on taxing 'whiter' neighbourhoods more heavily
Race socialism is coming to the West. It will start in New York
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is on a mission to bring race socialism to New York City. That is not speculation, it’s in his public campaign platform.
“Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighbourhoods.”
Were it a throwaway line designed to appeal to unhappy, dyed-hair baristas and the local faculty lounges, Mamdani might have quietly removed it, but it turns out that it is essential to his vision. When called out on it on live television, he doubled down on the policy while bewilderingly denying it was race-based. “That is just a description of what we see right now. It’s not driven by race. It’s more of an assessment of what neighbourhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed,” Mamdani stated on NBC News. Despite the blatant attempt at gaslighting, this could be the start of a tremendous shift in global left-wing politics, considering the influence of the United States. The buildup to race socialism has been decades in the making, and Mamdani could be the politician to make it mainstream. These ideas have been gaining traction in the West, including in Canada.
The far-left publication Canadian Dimension published a column in February that called for a wealth tax and explicitly linked it to race: “It’s no secret that extreme wealth in western democracies is overwhelmingly held by white people, and Canada is no exception.”
There is even a “critical tax theory” movement arising in North America that argues that white taxpayers should pay higher rates in the name of equity.
Kicked out of Africa, becomes scholar in postcolonial African studies with a focus on enforcing equity principles on white people.His father in particular, Mahmood Mamdani, is one of the western world’s more well-known scholars in the field of “postcolonial studies,” with a special interest in Africa.
The Africa Report, an award-winning quarterly focusing on the continent’s current affairs, reported in June that the Mamdanis were awash with “diasporic intellectualism, where ideas about justice, decolonization and identity were household conversations.”
How exactly did decolonization play out in Africa following the collapse of European rule? There was great enthusiasm for wealth redistribution and the scapegoating of ethnic minorities, led by charismatic figures like Uganda’s Idi Amin and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe.
Following the British departure in 1962, Idi Amin demonized and purged the country’s mostly South Asian merchant class in the 1970s, Mamdani’s father among them. Their businesses were expropriated, and their assets confiscated.
Wonder if it would be possible to source Idi Amin’s DNA and clone him back to assist in remigration efforts?
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