Kiwis now led by a Commie as Ardern attacks capitalism and embraces socialist roots, by The Australian.

New Zealand’s new prime minister-designate’s take on capitalism. Jacinda Ardern on New Zealand’s Channel Three, Saturday:

When you have a market economy, it all comes down to whether or not you acknowledge where the market has failed and where intervention is required. Has it failed our people in recent times? Yes. …

Ardern is the former head of the International Union of Socialist Youth … Ardern at the IUSY festival in Hungary, July 21. 2009:

We are losing … I don’t just mean against the neoliberal agenda we are all fighting. …

Comrade Ardern continues at the Hungary Socialist Youth Conference:

With everyone discussing the economic crisis, we called it what it was: A neoliberal crisis. …

The Australian’s Chris Kenny sums up Ardern’s new regime on Twitter, yesterday:

Political leaders who didn’t know the world before the (Berlin) wall came down. And haven’t been educated about it. A worry.

hat-tip Stephen Neil