The Mamdani Socialist Movement

As Mamdani said, he wants to open government-run stores and control the

means of production. I asked AI about the success stories of Socialism, and this is briefly what it said: Np country has successfully implemented a “pure” socialism - as defined as full government or collective ownership of the means of production with central planning replacing markets.

Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland are

Often cited as socialist successes, they are not. They are market economies with private ownership of production, high economic freedom, and large welfare states funded by taxes on a productive capitalist base.