Source: Fox News
by Eric Patterson
“The major election year 2026 kicks off with a new mayor taking over Gotham on Jan. 1. From Sacramento to Minneapolis to New York, some candidates are peddling Karl Marx. The most glaring example is Zohran Mamdani, who pledges innumerable freebies and has called for ‘seizing the means of production’. What are we to make of this ‘pop Marxism?’ What is its appeal? It is ‘pop’ in two senses of the word. It is popular and populist: popular in that it is shallow while presenting as novel and exciting, and populist in a braying pretense of familiarity, with its calls for costless gratification and its gratuitous attacks on the status quo.” (09/17/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-62-young-americans-falling-pop-marxism