British medical journal holds up New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern as example of voice against free markets

New Zealand Herald

12 December 2017 - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is being used as a poster-child for Marxist ideas in a prestigious British medical journal.

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.

"More and more people, especially younger generations, believe that economies based only on free markets are not necessarily the best means to deliver fairer or healthier societies," Horton writes.

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