November 13, 2025
The anti-wealth manifesto
By Greg Maresca
Twenty-four years after 9/11, New York City elected a 34-year-old whose biography reads like a Marxist coming-of-age novel with a Brooklyn rewrite. Zohran Mamdani, Muslim, activist, and self-described democrat-socialist, will become mayor January 1, 2026, in a city where the ideological spectrum stretches from hedge fund libertarianism to the abolition of landlords.
Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, is a professor at Columbia University, with a communist lens so thick it requires a prescription. His mother, Mira Nair, is a filmmaker and an anti-Israeli activist in a city that is nearly 15% Jewish, and the politics of Israel are not just foreign policy; they are dinner table discourse, donor strategy, and district electoral math.
No sane individual would have imagined New Yorkers electing a communist Islamic mayor. Republicans missed all the red flags — again. But when the hammer and sickle flies over City Hall, it’s past time to take notes.
In a 2020 tweet, Mamdani declared: “Taxation isn’t theft. Capitalism is.” More recently, he reignited debate by stating, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality.”
Such a credo isn’t new with the left, but Mamdani’s timing is telling and a political provocation.
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