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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://amac.us/newsline/politics/americas-new-proletarians/   
      
   Karl Marx famously wrote in his 1848 Communist Manifesto, “The   
   proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains,” and it was these   
   unchained proletarians who elected Zohran Mamdani mayor of New York City,   
   along with other socialists in municipal elections from Atlanta, Georgia   
   to Portland, Oregon and cities in between. But the 2025 elections did more   
   than sweep a surprising number of socialist politicians to power. They   
   also revealed contradictions inherent to all leftist ideologies.   
      
   One big contradiction involves affordability, a major issue in the 2025   
   elections, particularly in terms of housing. But proletarians voting for   
   socialists in the hopes of achieving the dream of homeownership don’t   
   realize they’re voting for the kind of big government that’s already   
   putting it out of reach.   
      
   A report by Murray Weidenbaum at Washington University in St. Louis found   
   that in three surveyed locales—Colorado, St. Louis, and New Jersey—the   
   cost of government regulations added $1,500 to $2,500 to the price of an   
   average house in the mid-1970s. By 2011, government mandates increased   
   home prices by $65,224. Over the next decade, government made homes   
   $93,870 more expensive. Socialists decry the high price of housing, but   
   intrusive government contradicts them by burdening homebuyers with   
   escalating regulatory costs, and socialists are not prone to surrendering   
   government control of people’s lives.   
      
   In New York City, affordability provides an additional contradiction. When   
   someone complains about life being too expensive, they might consider   
   economizing or relocating to a less expensive place. But Mamdani voters do   
   not want to economize or move; they want to continue drinking $8 lattes   
   and living in Greenwich Village. Their belief system demands the world   
   adapt to them rather than adapting to the world around them. It is a   
   belief that inverts Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, which is   
   foundational to the belief system of true proletarians.   
      
   Then there’s the contradiction of what constitutes a proletarian in the   
   first place. According to Britannica, Marx characterized proletarians as   
   “workers who were engaged in industrial production and whose chief source   
   of income was derived from the sale of their labor power.” This definition   
   fits every working American; if you have a job, Marx says you’re a   
   proletarian.   
      
   This definition might apply to someone like Elon Musk, who also sells his   
   labor to make money. But some of Musk’s labor is used to build and operate   
   factories which employ other proletarians. What we’re left with is an   
   ideology in which proletarians who work only for themselves are the   
   selfless good guys, but those who work for themselves while providing   
   employment for others are selfish members of the bourgeoisie, the enemy of   
   proletarians. It defies logic.   
      
   Marx did not envision a knowledge economy, computerized electric vehicles,   
   or much else that constitutes the exponentially improved life we live   
   today, so it’s not unreasonable to think that after 175 years, Marxism   
   might be discarded simply for being woefully out of date. But one enduring   
   aspect of Marxism is victimhood, which attends all leftist ideologies.   
      
   Twenty-five hundred years ago, proletarians lived lives that were   
   genuinely nasty, brutish and short. The Latin word proletarius described   
   the lowest class of society in ancient Rome: people who were ignorant,   
   impoverished, and considered by the state as good for nothing more than   
   breeding the next generation of Roman legionaries.   
      
   A few thousand years later, life was marginally better for the   
   proletarians of Marx’s day. They worked in dangerous conditions for wages   
   so low they guaranteed perpetual poverty. Contrast this with today’s   
   American proletarians who, deceived into believing they are victims, are   
   among the most educated, most affluent, most pro-abortion people on Earth.   
   Proletarians never had it so good, and it’s a contradiction of both   
   history and ideology. Marx didn’t contemplate a working class comprised of   
   well-fed women with graduate degrees in gender studies.   
      
   In a very literal way, the attempted implementation of socialism in   
   America reflects the oft-repeated definition of insanity—doing the same   
   thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Socialism has   
   a perfect record of failure wherever and whenever it’s been tried,   
   prompting some theorists to claim social conditions just haven’t been   
   right in the past, but they are now, so it’ll work this time. In truth,   
   the only way socialism works is by force. That’s why East Germany had to   
   build a wall to keep people from escaping it.   
      
   Perhaps contradiction is too kind a word. The socialism peddled today is   
   predicated on a system of organized lying and demands leaders who are   
   skilled at telling convincing lies. Mamdani, California Gov. Gavin Newsom,   
   and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are just a few of those possessing the   
   confidence, expressiveness, physical attractiveness and other traits   
   required of a good liar. They personify the deceit necessary to camouflage   
   the contradictions of their deeply flawed ideology.   
      
      
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