Michael Knowles

What's the second most?

I don't know.

I can't think of one.

Now, to be fair to Zoran Mamdani, there are plenty of valid critiques of capitalism.

I have plenty of critiques of capitalism.

In fact, while we're saying nice things about the neoconservatives, you know, the early neoconservatives like Irving Kristol.

Irving Kristol had a great line.

He said, two cheers for capitalism.

It's not three cheers because capitalism is a modern liberal ideology that, if taken to its logical extreme, would make an idol out of money.

It would actually worship filthy lucre and mammon.

That would not be good.

You

There's much to recommend capitalism and markets and the allocation of resources according to the impulses of the market.

Obviously, there's a lot to recommend private property, but there are critiques of capitalism.

The problem is Mamdani's critiques of capitalism are all the wrong ones.

The real critique of capitalism is that it can weaken social institutions and social solidarity, and it can put the cart before the horse.

And it can weaken bonds within the community, and it can weaken bonds even within families, which is the bedrock political unit and has to be protected.

Zohran Mamdani's critique of capitalism is communist, basically.

He is an avowed socialist and maybe a communist.

And he's even what we now call like a gay race communist.