How practical socialism helped India Walton win

An article in City & State New York featured Henry Louis Taylor discussing how practical socialism helped India Walton defeat incumbent Byron Brown in this week’s Democratic City of Buffalo mayoral primary, all but assuring Walton will become the city’s next mayor. Taylor said many city residents have not shared in the wealth generated by rising rents and big-ticket public investments in the private sector. “It wasn’t a mixed pattern of development … and it was a development that gave the market full rein to run,” Taylor said. “(The election) was a rejection of the neoliberal city that Byron Brown sought to build.”