Mayor Mandani's Warmth of Collectivism

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration speech and call for the warmth of collectivism: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” The warmth of Vladimir Lenin? The warmth of Stalin? The dead bodies of the Kulaks? The warmth of Chairman Mao? The warmth of Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro? The warmth of Pol Pot? The warmth of Fidel Castro? The seductive, idealistic collectivism that is a failure in reality The collectivism of the bullet to the head The collectivism of Arhtur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon The collectivism of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 The collectivism that can kill the human soul and deaden initiative The collectivism that leads to Big Brother The collectivism of the elites The failure of collectivism in India after Independence. The failure of collectivism of the Pilgrims. The socialist collectivisms where the population is sharing in poverty while the leaders get rich The Soviet leaders occupied the dachas of the pre-Revolution plutocrats Collectivism leads to coercion Collectivism is a recipe for corruption