New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio quoted Karl Marx during a radio interview, the second time a major Democrat has quoted a communist this month.
De Blasio in an appearance on WYNC said that his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, focused on the business community and “the elites,” while he has not.
“I am tempted to borrow a quote from Karl Marx here,” he said, adding soon after: “There’s the famous quote that the state is the executive committee of the bourgeoisie. And I use it openly to say, no, I actually read that when I was a young person, I said, well, that’s not the way it’s supposed to be. The business community matters. We need to work with the business community.”
“We will work with the business community, but the city government represents the people, represents working people and, you know, mayors should not be too cozy with the business community. Governors should not be too cozy with the business community,” he continued.
“Respect them, listen to them, sometimes they have great ideas, sometimes they offer real help. There are more and more people in the business community, to be fair, who are seeing the problems and the inequalities, and actually are starting to speak up about it more. But I want them to act.”
Communism is a radical form of political theory derived from Marx’s theories, which calls for continued wars among classes. In countries that have implemented it, communism has led to tens of millions of deaths.
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