Socialism always sells itself on empathy. New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s agenda—“free” public transit, frozen rents, and government-mandated equality—sounds merciful on the surface. But it rests on a fatal delusion: that force can manufacture fairness and that wealth can be ordered into existence.
The economists and moral philosophers of the Austrian School—Henry Hazlitt, Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Murray Rothbard, Tom Woods, Robert Murphy, and Ron Paul—proved that liberty and prosperity emerge only from voluntary exchange. Every government distortion of prices or property replaces the choices of millions with the dictates of a few.