Something new is stirring(涌动，酝酿) on the left. A fresh crop of socialists want to remake the economy with price controls, hefty(高额的，沉重的) wealth taxes and a spree of nationalisations(国有化). Supercharged by fury over Gaza(加沙地带), they are winning voters at a formidable pace. Many rose to prominence(崭露头角，脱颖而出) only recently, like Zack Polanski, who leads the Green Party in Britain, or Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York. Others are long-standing political fixtures(固定人物，常客): the septuagenarian(七十多岁的人) Jean-Luc Mélenchon is on his fourth swing at the French presidency, but thumping support(巨大的支持) from the 20-somethings of “Generation Z” has put the Elysée(爱丽舍宫) back in his sights again.
左翼正在涌动一股新思潮。一批新兴的社会主义者希望通过价格管控、高额财富税和一连串国有化来重塑经济。受加沙愤怒情绪的推动，他们正以惊人的速度赢得选民。许多人只是最近才崭露头角，比如英国绿党领袖扎克·波兰斯基，或纽约市长佐兰·马姆达尼。另一些则是长期的政治常客：七旬老人让-吕克·梅朗雄正第四次冲击法国总统宝座，但“Z世代”二十多岁年轻人的大力支持，使爱丽舍宫再次进入他的视野。
Call it Gen-Z socialism. Not because all its adherents(支持者，信徒) are young—or because it is new for young people to lean leftward(向左倾，支持左翼)—but because it is the brand of leftism, made for the TikTok era(TikTok时代), that today’s young revolutionaries support.
可以称之为Z世代社会主义。不是因为所有支持者都年轻——或者因为年轻人向左转不是新鲜事——而是因为它是为TikTok时代量身打造的左翼品牌，得到当今年轻革命者的支持。
Forget weighty collectivist ideals(厚重的集体主义理想) or seizing the means of production(夺取生产资料). Gen-Z socialism is a me-first doctrine(信条，主义). Climate change and race, preoccupations of the 2010s and early 2020s, are now much more peripheral(边缘的，次要的) concerns. So are social issues, barring(除……之外) Gaza. Angst about inflation, housing and artificial intelligence have replaced all that with something cruder. “This country is awash in wealth,” says Avi Lewis, freshly elected leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada, a country where productivity has been all but flat(几乎停滞不前) for a decade. “We can have nice things.” Saying that prices should be capped(设定上限) to keep your bills down while someone else pays for your public services is a seductive(诱人的，有吸引力的), shareable message.
忘掉厚重的集体主义理想或夺取生产资料吧。Z世代社会主义是一种“我优先”的信条。气候变化和种族问题，即2010年代和2020年代初的核心议题，如今已变得边缘化。社会议题（除了加沙）也是如此。对通胀、住房和人工智能的焦虑，被更粗鄙的东西取而代之。“这个国家财富充裕，”加拿大新民主党新当选领袖阿维·刘易斯说——加拿大生产力十年来几乎停滞。“我们可以拥有好东西。”说价格应该被管制来压低你的账单，而让别人为你的公共服务买单——这是一个诱人且易于传播的信息。
The world is ruled by little else
世界几乎靠其他东西统治