Ep 1428 Mamdani’s Great Leap Forward Markets

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to build 5 government-owned supermarkets for the 5 boroughs of his city, and charge 30% less for food.  In the late 1950’s, during China’s Great Leap Forward, the Chinese Communist Party set up free communal canteens across the country.  Families, children and adults were given three meals a day in the commune’s “big socialist food hall.” The canteens were symbols of Chairman Mao’s promise of equality and the end of scarcity under socialism. In the beginning, 80% of the food for the canteens was produced on private farms.  But th...