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In the campaign to be mayor of New York City, opponents of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and front-runner, are bashing him for also belonging to another party, the Democratic Socialists of ...

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels weren’t right about much, but they made some astute observations about America while trying to explain why it was so resistant to socialism. According to Marx’s theory, ...