When Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, pro-capitalist commentators rushed to compare him to Stalin or Mao and the horrors their versions of socialism caused. But Mamdani doesn't want Soviet or Chinese style socialism. He, and most socialists in the U.S., want European style socialism, with Sweden as their idol.
But do they know anything about European socialism? I say European rather than Swedish because Sweden is a tiny nation, 10.5 million people, smaller than most large U.S. cities. It's statistical malpractice to compare a tiny nation to a huge one like the U.S. with 340 million. Sound statistics require that sample sizes be similar so that sample size doesn't affect the analysis.
