Re-Fashioning Society to Reflect 'Race Socialism'

"Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and white neighbourhoods."

"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."

New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani 

 

"[The Mamdani family were wedded to] diasporic intellectualism, where ideas about justice, decolonization and identity were household conversations."

"[Mahmood Mamdani is one of the western world's more well-recognized scholars in the field of] postcolonial studies [with a special interest in Africa."

"His son Zohran would be] the first to carry the intellectual legacy of postcolonial Africa into the political heart of the West." 

Africa Report quarterly

 

Global left-wing politics is alive and well and evidently booming in New York City. Where the Democratic nominee for the mayoralty election espouses taxing the rich to benefit the city's poor. And the issue of 'race socialism' championed by Zohran Mamdani, steeped deep in left-wing politics, promises to set off an explosion of similar sentiments elsewhere, say for example Canada, where the far-left publication Canadian Dimension called for a wealth tax, linking it to race: "It's no secret that extreme wealth in western democracies is overwhelmingly held by white people, and Canada is no exception." 

 

A "critical tax theory" movement in North America argues that white taxpayers should pay higher taxes to achieve equity for all others. Zohran Mamdani increasingly appears the role model for a dystopian future of white versus colour, wealth versus poverty. Simply put, white imperial colonialists living grand on the land while their traditional victims, people of colour, indigenous and trapped in poverty, remain victimized by the ancestors of the colonists who trapped the original inhabitants of the land in a cycle of disadvantage.

 

Mamdani's family, heavyweights in the world of far-left academia, clearly shaped his outlook on life, as well as the solutions that are to be applied to correct all the wrongs of the world where there are sharp divisions between the haves and the have-nots. Simply yank most of the wealth from those that own it and transfer it to those that covet it. 

 

It's interesting to look at Africa in the wake of European rule collapse where wealth redistribution was meant to correct old wrongs. How well did countries like Uganda and Zimbabwe fare under their own agency, did they prosper, did all citizens share equally, did peace and prosperity march in when colonial rule marched out? In Uganda, Idi Amin looked at the minority entrepreneurial population of Asian Ugandans and cleansed the country of their presence, expropriating their businesses and confiscating their assets.

 

In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabwe supervised attacks against the white farming community with the intention of redistributing the land among native Zimbabweans. Those farms falling into the holds of his old comrades in 'resistance' against colonization, were left fallow. All the agricultural expertise and interest in farming the land gone with the white farmers who were dispossessed if not outright murdered. Food scarcity, sky-high inflation, currency devaluation followed. How now, brown cow? 

 

The West, and New York City in particular, is consumed with the narrative of the oppressed colonized and the unworthy imperialism of the colonizer. Ancestral guilt has been assigned to the descendants of Europeans who settled on the land already in possession of a native population. The English-speaking world now accepts that it bears the burden of colonialism and has much to atone for, in their guilt. In Australia, Canada, and Britain in particular the indigenous colonizer conflict is alive and well.

 

Zohran Mamdani's meteoric rise to political stardom bespeaks racial politics in conjunction with the socialist revival brought into raw play courtesy of Bernie Sanders and and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for whom the arrival of Zohran Mamdani heralds their dream of socially-virtuous, social-progressivism's time has finally arrived...  

 

New Yorkers are split on Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plans to raise taxes on the rich and corporations, according to a new poll. AFP via Getty Images