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What Is Democratic Socialism?

What Is Democratic Socialism?
New York mayoral candidate, State Rep. Zohran Mamdani (D-N.Y.) greets voters with NYC Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander on Broadway, in New York City, on June 24, 2025. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
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Manhattan is a great place to visit but you sure don’t want to vote there. The recent mayoral primary for the Democratic Party pitted a discredited lockdown practitioner and former governor against a purveyor of old-style socialist economics in which everything we want comes to us for free. The latter guy won, though he will likely be defeated in the general election by the incumbent who is running as an independent.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]