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What the left believes
左翼相信什么
The Economist was too quick to attack “Gen-Z socialism” (June 6th). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani aren’t cold war socialists(冷战社会主义者) committed to central planning, vanguardism(先锋队主义) and foreign dictatorships. They are democratic pragmatists who support civil and political liberties, good governance and expanded public services. This is the stuff of “sewer socialism(下水道社会主义)”, not Stalinism. Today’s socialists want to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency because they believe in freedom of movement, and because masked thugs are kidnapping people off the streets. The push to tax billionaires comes not from a zero-sum mentality(零和心态), but from witnessing massive wealth weaponised against liberal democracy itself. Like its namesake, a Green New Deal seeks to save capitalism from capitalists, and cool the planet too. Universal health care is no more a threat to American liberalism than it was to the British kind. Finally, The Economist itself has warned of the risks apartheid(种族隔离制度) poses to democratic legitimacy. The horrors in Gaza have just awakened liberals to this danger.
《经济学人》过快攻击了“Z世代社会主义”（6月6日）。亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯和佐赫兰·马姆达尼不是信奉中央计划、先锋队主义和外国独裁统治的冷战社会主义者。他们是民主实用主义者，支持公民和政治自由、良政和扩大公共服务。这是“下水道社会主义”的特质，而非斯大林主义。今天的社会主义者想要废除移民和海关执法局，因为他们相信迁徙自由，也因为蒙面暴徒正在街上绑架人。向亿万富翁征税的推动并非来自零和心态，而是目睹巨额财富被武器化来对抗自由民主本身。与它同名的绿色新政旨在从资本家手中拯救资本主义，同时也让地球降温。全民医保对美国自由主义的威胁并不比英国的那一种更大。最后，《经济学人》本身曾警告种族隔离对民主合法性的风险。加沙的恐怖刚刚唤醒了自由主义者对这一危险的认识。
These can all be defended on liberal grounds(基于自由主义理由). There are illiberal ideas on the left, but it is the liberal ideas that are attracting followers. We should ask ourselves why we so often find that socialists express our values better than our fellow liberals.(我们应该问问自己，为什么我们经常发现社会主义者比我们的自由主义伙伴更好地表达了我们的价值观。)
所有这些都可以在自由主义基础上辩护。左派确实有不自由的想法，但正是自由主义的观点吸引了追随者。我们应该问问自己，为什么我们经常发现社会主义者比我们的自由主义伙伴更好地表达了我们的价值观。
Refereeing the Trump administration
为特朗普政府做裁判
Victims and perpetrators
受害者和施害者
“We’re a killer species”
“我们是杀手物种”
The state of Ethiopia
埃塞俄比亚的现状
Out of the digestive tract
走出消化道