The most disturbing part of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration was not that he chose fellow socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to swear him in, nor that he was sworn in on the Quran, nor even his call to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” although all of these a reason for dislike and repudiation.

His most disturbing words were those in which he described his support of collectivism, which come from South Africa’s Freedom Charter.