A modern Marxist?

The Herald reports:

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is being used as a poster-child for Marxist ideas in a prestigious British medical journal.

Oh excellent. As we all know Marxism is great for health outcomes. Well apart from the 100 million killed by it.

In a November editorial for The Lancet, editor Dr Richard Horton discusses the impact of Marxism on the health sector. He doesn’t actually call Ardern a Marxist, but suggests that she has opened the door for Marxist ideas to be debated.

Imagine if this was about a National PM, and the story said the PM wasn’t called a fascist, but has opened the door for fascist ides to be debated.

It’s not the first time Ardern has been associated with the legacy of Karl Marx.

Newstalk ZB host Leighton Smith made similar observations after watching a speech from 2009 when Ardern headed the International Union of Socialist Youth, where she used the word “comrade” several times.

“Comrades this, comrades that. Comrades means something,” Smith said.

“She said this morning it doesn’t mean anything, it’s just – I’m sorry, it does. Comrades means something. It is actually a Marxist term. And you don’t pick that sort of thing up because you’re not a Marxist.”

I don’t think Ardern is a Marxist. But I think she is at the socialist end of the spectrum. I mean after all she was the global head of Socialist Youth.