Meet the newest member of the Seattle City Council, socialist Kshama Sawant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant
Although she ran as a socialist, Kshama is a Marxist and adheres to traditional Marxist beliefs. Not being a Marxist myself, I for the most part disagree with most of the core tenets of the philosophy.
I will say that Ms. Sawant by all accounts is very capable and intelligent, so it will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
If she supports the new arena and efforts to bring the Sonics back to Seattle, well she might have a new supporter. I'd have snap voted for her had she been running against that fucking clown Nick Licata (if I actually lived in Seattle which I don't).
Edit note:*****I was going to remove the reference to her being a Marxist as I had no evidence, however in the linked youtube video she described herself as such so I left it.*****