He Calls It Socialism; Marx Called It Communism's Last Stage

He Calls It Socialism; Marx Called It Communism's Last Stage Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, On Theo Von's podcast, Zohran Mamdani defined socialism as the government delivering whatever you need for a dignified life. That is Marx's rule for communism's last stage - and New York is already getting the invoice. Von asked him to define socialism. Mamdani said socialism means you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life, and that it is the government's job to deliver on that. Housing. Childcare. Transit. The things, he said, that let you take a breath. Karl Marx saved a version of that sentence for the end of the road. In the Critique of the Gotha Programme he split communist society in two. The...

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