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China and the soviet union did the same kind of collaboration with capitalists poat-revolution

I'm willing to give Mamdani the benefit of the doubt, but this is a ridiculous comparison. The revolutionary party of the proletariat doing something as part of an explicitly and openly planned process is not the same as the social democrat mayor doing something because he will not actually be able to implement his agenda. Mamdani is not going to expropriate the resulting housing, or do anything else that drastically limits the profit seeking behavior of the real-estate developers.