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In Context: Zohran Mamdani’s use of phrase ‘seizing the means of production.’ What’s it mean?
Politifact ^ | July 3, 2025 | Amy Sherman

Posted on 11/06/2025 10:59:40 AM PST by grundle

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1 posted on 11/06/2025 10:59:40 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

There is only ONE MEANING.........................


2 posted on 11/06/2025 11:01:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: grundle

True fascism I would guess


3 posted on 11/06/2025 11:01:40 AM PST by albie
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To: grundle
He means the same thing that a mugger does when they say, "Your money or your life."

NYC just voted to be robbed and murdered.

4 posted on 11/06/2025 11:04:40 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: albie

National Socialist and [non]Workers Party.


5 posted on 11/06/2025 11:04:58 AM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: grundle

Intellectual back-flips to deny the obvious. Seizing the means of production is one of Marx’s most fundamental objectives.


6 posted on 11/06/2025 11:06:34 AM PST by Billthedrill
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That loud sucking sound, as Ross Perot said, is businesses fleeing the state for red states. 6 months from now, NYC, will look totally different. The difference between past communist efforts is there is somewhere to flee that’s not!


7 posted on 11/06/2025 11:06:35 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: grundle

He’s a red diaper baby wielding stupid high school marxist slogans.

NY City has NO “means of production.”

The city survives by skimmings from Wall Street printed-money and debt trading, and from Fed.gov transfers.

The rest is from services like restaurants, entertainment and drug dealing.

There is NOTHING for this stupid red diaper baby to seize.


8 posted on 11/06/2025 11:07:25 AM PST by PGR88
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To: grundle

Start Suing Him


9 posted on 11/06/2025 11:09:17 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: PGR88

Related

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/05/zohran-mamdanis-ivy-league-intifada/


10 posted on 11/06/2025 11:10:30 AM PST by combat_boots
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New York City is not the center of the universe.


11 posted on 11/06/2025 11:11:06 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: PGR88

Marx’s Communist Manifesto was written in 1848.

Marx was a product of his time—and dreamed of workers seizing the factories of the industrial revolution.

Today manufacturing jobs are just 8% of total employment.

In New York City they are probably even a lower percentage.


12 posted on 11/06/2025 11:13:54 AM PST by cgbg ("The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.")
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To: grundle

but he’s only the Mayor ,LOL


13 posted on 11/06/2025 11:14:08 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: PGR88

“He’s a red diaper baby wielding stupid high school marxist slogans”

Thank you.

Saved this thread from the legions here who apparently have never heard of Karl Marx, the Russian Bolshevik party or every stupid American university poli sci department from 1960 onwards.

Mam-nobody prattles dimwitted slogans from the 19th century that have resulted in the deaths of 100 million people, wars on all continents, and the destruction of major countries from Russia to Cambodia.


14 posted on 11/06/2025 11:14:34 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Of course they are covering for him.

Wars have consequences, well so does letting the left control universities. As far back as I can remember colleges have been predominantly democratic/socialistic and “independent” ( communist but afraid to admit it usually) staff, especially in the soft sciences. Today it’s about 25 to 1 in journalism, the one being republican.

Now we are seeing those effects in orgs like politifact.


15 posted on 11/06/2025 11:18:19 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: grundle

He thinks he’s still in the $hit Hole he came from and can do whatever he wants ,LOL


16 posted on 11/06/2025 11:19:08 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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“And what I want to say is that it is critical that the way that we organize, the way that we set up our you know, set up our work and our priorities, that we do not leave any one issue for the other, that we do not meet a moment and only look at what people are ready for, but that we are doing both of these things in tandem, because it is critical for us to both meet people where they’re at and to also organize and organize for what is correct and for what is right and to ensure over time we can bring people to that issue.””

I bet Kamala could understand that diatribe.


17 posted on 11/06/2025 11:19:12 AM PST by plain talk
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To: DownInFlames

..........”That loud sucking sound, as Ross Perot said, is businesses fleeing the state for red states....”

Thanks for remembering that great Perot statement. And yes, with Mamdammit’s idiot plans in play, businesses will head for more reasonable places. Many residents will too. Tax base far down.


18 posted on 11/06/2025 11:19:24 AM PST by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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To: grundle

From LBJ and Nixon to city council and dog catcher I have heard politicians use phrases in cynical ways to please the immediate audience.

One question is how much is the new mayor of New York an ideologue and how much is he a pragmatist? On what issues is he willing to listen to other opinions in the coalition?

It’s the same with Trump. RFK and Tulsi Gabbard were not in the 2016-2020 MAGA coalition. Their ideas were not part of the coalition. But the coalition has had no trouble welcoming them and their ideas in 2023-2024-2025.

(At the same time, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes are an embarrassment to the coalition and need to be told ADIOS.)

A similar situation exists in NYC, and in every coalition.


19 posted on 11/06/2025 11:21:24 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: Regulator

Memo to the college “educated”crowd, when the kam rouge took over, all the intellectuals were sent to the fields or killed. Enjoy.


20 posted on 11/06/2025 11:21:37 AM PST by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now!)
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