Having spent years grinding it out in New York City, I know firsthand the struggles of living there. Socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani, poised to become the city’s next mayor, has promised to miraculously solve many of those problems and redistribute dignity, whatever that means. Out of one side of his mouth he talks about “temporarily” freezing rents, but out of the other side he dreams of “de-commodifying housing”—a fancy way to say abolishing private property. For millennial marxists like Mamdani, the solution is always more government, less freedom.