Over the past few years, North Brooklyn has developed into a stronghold for democratic socialist politics. Two of our state elected officials, State Senator Julia Salazar and Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, are both involved with the local branch of the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). Currently, the DSA and other activist groups are in the middle of their campaign to push for the state legislature to pass the Invest in Our New York Act,…

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  1. Socialism is evil. My parents and every other polish greenpointer came her fleeing communism. My parents were poorer than any homeless person you see here on no fault of their own. Thats what communism and socialism does. Reasearch every communist and socialist experiment that happened during the 20th century and see the death and suffering it brought about.

  2. Jim, you must be confusing Democratic Socialism with COMMUNISM. I’m a happy Greenpointer born in Sweden. You’ve probably heard of it. A demoractic socialist country, the home of billion dollar multi-national companies like Spotify, IKEA, Skype, Klarna and Volvo. A place where everyone have access to free health care, child care, university and 12 month paid paternal leave. We haven’t been to war in 200 years. So clearly you are purposefully mistaking Polish communism with what this article clearly is about. Something completely different.

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