Looks like New York woman haven’t changed in the last sixty years.

That’s the famous cover for the famous 1970 story written by the great Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s”, and the chicks are dressed in fabulous clothes costing thousands while giving the Black Panther salute. You can read the entire article at the link because New York magazine is more interested in clicks than copyright.

The synopsis of the article is that Wolfe wrote about a fund-raising party he attended at the home of the famous conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. The funds were being raised for, of all groups, the fucking Black Panthers, who were as much a Far Left terrorist group in the 1960’s as the Weather Underground, the primary difference being that the former focused on racial oppression, a forerunner of today’s Far Left that have substituted race, gender, environment and a host of other things for Class Warfare (to the regrets of serious Marxists). Wolfe’s piece was a satirical take on the upper-class twats who associated with these politically radical causes, highlighting what he saw as a trend among the wealthy, white elite to dabble in radical social causes and hobnob with extremists in an attempt to be “chic”. He’d later write an entire book about this phenomenon, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.

I’m sure he’d have been thrilled to see what just happened in his beloved New York City. The women in the photo above would have fit perfectly in the party below, celebrating Zohran Mamdani’s win in the NYC Democrat primary. The ultimate in Elite White Privilege. The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

The Democratic nominee for mayor attributed his campaign’s success to the efforts of NYC’s working class.

Oh yeah?

New Yorkers in areas where the median income is above $117,600 backed Mr. Mamdani by 13 points. Middle-income precincts followed right behind. Lower-income New Yorkers? They broke just as hard for Cuomo instead.

Whiter, wealthier, more ideologically driven New Yorkers are certainly overrepresented in this primary. Take Flatbush and East Flatbush – two neighborhoods situated together with comparable populations. Gentrified Flatbush opted for Mamdani by 16 points, versus the Caribbean-dominated East Flatbush, which preferred Cuomo by 37 points.

BTW, in another prescient echo of today, when Time magazine later interviewed a minister of the Black Panthers about Bernstein’s party, the official said of Tom Wolfe:

You mean that dirty, blatant, lying, racist dog who wrote that fascist disgusting thing in New York magazine?

Haha.

Also, the connection between the mayoralties of Chicago and New York that I pointed too the other day have been noted by the great Iowahawk, as a variation on the classic Marxist doom circle.