Mr Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old elected mayor of New York, who has described the police as ‘racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety’, says that his top policy priority is implementing free universal childcare, taxing the wealthy, freezing rents, running buses for free and heaven knows what else. How very Marxist! The Greek comic writer Aristophanes (d. c. 386 bc) would have loved it. It was he who invented communism, after all, and had his audience in hysterics.

His comedy Ecclesiazusae (‘Women Running the Assembly’) was produced in Athens in 391 bc. The women of Athens decide to seize power for themselves. They disguise themselves as men, enter the Assembly and, outnumbering the men, succeed in winning the vote and legislating as follows: all money and property will be communally owned (so there will be no lawsuits) and will be used to feed and clothe the whole citizen body, under female management; women can have sex with any man and bear children, ugly men and women being given first dibs at anyone they choose (they all start arguing about who is uglier and older); children will regard all men as their fathers; slaves will do all the farming, and such like.

Mr Mamdani will obviously find much of this to his liking and will be thrilled to find that Plato, through the mouth of Socrates, puts this system at the heart of his famous ‘republic’ (‘constitution’ would be better). The state would be run by carefully selected male and female ‘Guardians’, on equal terms, who would have no private property; marriage would not exist and women would be held in common among men; there would be no private houses, little litigation, communal dining, respect between young and old because no one could be quite certain who their parents or children were, and all supported by slave labour. Socrates agreed that this all might sound like a good laugh (after all, it was: he actually references the play); but he was deadly serious, as Marx was.

All good, solid sixth-form debating stuff, of the sort that will also appeal to Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party. Comedians! Doncha luv’em?
Peter Jones

Marxism/Socialism/Communism, their ideals......


IMO, it is not a sound basis, for a peaceful, functional society,
to make it [essentially] lawful to steal, and to make it [essentially] lawful to murder.

But try telling people like BLM that.


e.g.
IMO, George Floyd was largely a victim of his own choices [i.e. his own value system].

George Floyd had no respect for other peoples property.

And those who protested his death, were mostly peaceful.

Model citizens of the U.S.A. in 2020, and today.




IMAGE.....

Bobby. wrote on Nov 14^th, 2025 at 11:09pm:


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A number pulled straight from your seventh planet.


Skilled workers went from 87.0% to 89.9% for arrived after 2018.

Yadda wrote on Nov 26^th, 2025 at 5:21pm:


With these protests most of the problems came from oportunity looters (criminals) not associated with the protests and righties trying to undermine the protests. Protesting police violence isn't related to Marxism or even left wing politics in any way. It is an activity protected by the first amendment of the constitution, I don't think the American constitution is a marxist document.