People of New York,
You have chosen a path that echoes the siren call of socialism, electing a leader who proudly wears the mantle of democratic socialism—a term that masks the inexorable slide toward the very tyrannies that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn endured and exposed.
Zohran Mamdani, your new mayor-elect, promises equity and justice through the levers of state power, but I warn you, Solzhenitsyn warned us: such promises are the velvet glove over the iron fist of collectivism.
Solzhenitsyn spent his life under a communist regime, and he tells you plainly: a society without an objective legal scale is terrible, but one enthralled by the illusions of socialism is far worse—it hypnotizes you, preventing you from seeing the mortal danger ahead.
For him in Russia, communism became a dead dog, its horrors laid bare in the gulags where millions perished for the sake of ideological purity. Yet in the West, it persists as a living lion, seductive to those who have not tasted its bitterness.
In Solzhenitsyn’s address at Harvard in 1978, he spoke of the West’s decline: a loss of courage, where humanism exalts man above all and leads to spiritual exhaustion; where legalism replaces moral fortitude; where the press sows confusion rather than truth; and where socialism, in any shade, destroys the human spirit and levels mankind toward death.
New York, once a beacon of freedom and enterprise, now risks this fate. You vote for “progress,” but beware: all communist parties, before attaining power, speak of humanity and reform; once in control, they become merciless.
The communist system is a plague, spreading unchecked until it consumes the host. It spares the criminals and criminalizes the political opponent. Turn back while you can—rediscover the strength of individual liberty, the sanctity of the soul, and the dangers of entrusting your lives to those who would reshape society in the image of failed utopias.
With grave concern,