Political Conditions and Leadership 6 26 2026

When looking at the condition of representatives of what are called democratic socialists in America, you get a wide view. Some like Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, is a Muslim. The congress seats he helped fill with democratic socialists, two in the lower house so far, are also connected to Islam.

Islam is a religion built on fighting in Mecca against pagans, the sword verse in the Koran shows this. It reads:

“The “Sword Verse” is the common name for Surah At-Tawbah (Chapter 9, Verse 5) of the Quran. It states: “Kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush.””

Google search original sword verse in Koran

This would be connected to the fight against the pagans in Mecca from Medina. By pagans they mean a non monotheistic god, and historically in that region, near where the Epic of Gilgaham was written, people who had belief in the earth mother. In the epic they cut down a forest, and this is not liked by the religion there.

“Gaia most commonly refers to the primordial Greek goddess of the Earth”… “Greek Goddess: The supreme Earth Mother in ancient mythology, seen as the creator of life and the ancestor of the gods”

Google search gaia

The concept of the Earth Mother seems to be a very ancient concept indeed. The Greeks were part of a larger ancient world, one of a lower stage of barbarism, prior to money. A particularly excellent book about this is Friedrich Engels: Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. This book shows matriarchal lineage, and a common clan structure intact in groups of people that was present for tens of thousands of years throughout the world. It points to the common heritage of exit from Africa, and the adaptation strategies of early man.

I guess we must ask how non believers fit in Islam. From what I gather Islam currently pity’s Atheists, and wants to save them. This differs from Pagans who they, by their holy book of god the Koran represents, suggest should be killed, not pitied. The Earth Mother would not survive Islam, it is a pagan belief only now in the upper stages of barbarism, the modern era, it is being again sought after.

The socialist movement is not a religious movement. It may not be the Earth Mother, but it is not clear why Mamdani and his following in New York are calling themselves socialists, yet still are openly Islam.

Obviously ecology means something different to us, to non believers like the classical historical materialists, who were the first thinkers to grasp the inner workings of capitalism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in particular; this was prior to late modern ecological knowledge; knowledge of ecology has moved considerably since Marx’s time. We are left to sort out how ecology fits in with socialism.

In that respect perhaps the democratic socialists, in America at least, could be more accepting of a personal belief in the Earth Mother at this late date. But we find Islam violently opposed to pagans, followers of the earth mother.

Really? Do the democratic socialists now condone killing pagans? Or do we hope Islam like Mamdani’s will just go away, or, like modern versions of the Koran, simply change the wording of the Koran, to fit current conditions?

Mamdani has some explaining to do, before he gains the trust of the Marxists. We all have our own opinions on things, there is no one way to attain socialism. But Mamdani and his “Islamic socialism” would seem to be at odds with what is written in the Koran. Will he kill the ecology people who believe in mother Earth because they are pagans?

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

6 25 2026