During his inaugural address, Mamdani said: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Fox News said the line drew criticism from several conservative figures. Barron, who leads the media ministry Word on Fire, said Mamdani’s words “took my breath away”. He wrote that collectivist systems “in various forms” had caused large-scale loss of life in the past, and argued that Catholic social teaching rejects socialism and supports a market economy. Barron said socialism and communism in countries such as Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea were “disastrous”, and that the market system is based on...
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