The warmth of the collective

The Critic ^ | 23 Feb 2026 | Titania McGrath

[Rummyfan]

Communism is the only guarantee of human happiness

Communism is the only guarantee of human happiness. It has always worked wherever it has been tried. One need only consider the progressive reforms of Joseph Stalin in Russia in the mid-20th century. Those who refused to sign up to Stalin’s ideas tended to die young, which just proves that Communism saves lives.

Now that we’ve reached 2026, surely it’s time to try this system again. Our new era has already begun, with Zohran Mamdani taking over as Mayor of New York. For those who don’t know, Mamdani is a devout Muslim who has promised to make New York a “sanctuary city” for the LGBT+ community. It’s what the Prophet Mohammed would have wanted.

Some bigots have argued that homosexuality is incompatible with the Islamic faith. But in fact, homophobia is extremely rare in Muslim-majority countries. This is why there isn’t a single LGBT+ community centre in the whole of Afghanistan. Everyone is so tolerant that there is simply no need for them.

Since taking power, Mamdani has declared that “we will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”. No sane person could possibly argue with this logic. If it’s a choice between being warm or frigid, I know which I’d prefer. Indeed, during Stalin’s time he built a range of holiday camps called “gulags”, where residents often slept shoulder-to-shoulder in crammed rooms. Just imagine how warm and non-frigid that was.

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[Paladin2]

Collection snow shoveling makes you warm?

[Paladin2]

Collective snow shoveling makes you warm?

[BenLurkin]

[BipolarBob]

Give me my golden handcuffs.

[Adder]

Apparently the wealth of collectivism is not melting the snow...

[No name given]

This HAS to be satire!

[AZJeep]

Yes, these gulags also provided free housing, food, medical care, and clothing.
No need to worry, they were provided with everything!
Gulag residents were so happy, that they often died from all that excitement!

[Rummyfan]

Oh it is.

[Dilbert San Diego]

What kind of Muslim is he? Why does he let his wife dress in clothes which are not modest per their own religious standards? As a Muslim man he controls his wife, so he lets her dress that way.

Or if he wants to say he does not control his wife, then he is not a very good Muslim if he can’t control her.

[The Great RJ]

Other than the brain dead leftists, we all knew Mondami’s great communist experiment in the Big Apple would be an utter failure. What is a surprise is how quickly the failure has arrived. Suddenly the free buses aren’t free, new taxes aren’t lowering rents, free grocery stores have Soviet like food lines and the streets have become more violent with fewer cops. Even basic needs haven’t been met with garbage piling up on the streets and now a snow emergency that is guaranteed to be a disaster. I hope the voters who elected this clown are having buyers remorse.

[kosciusko51]

The “warmth of collectivism”:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[tet68]

It would seem to me that “Sanctuary” cities would be happy to accept every illegal immigrant ICE might come across, so I suggest releasing every illegal caught into the “Sanctuary” city of their choosing. Situation solved.