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Posted on 10/06/2025 8:27:48 PM PDT by Libloather
Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly insisted he is not a "communist" when asked by reporters despite a history of promoting communist ideology which has prompted many to place that label on him.
"No, I’m a democratic socialist," Mamdani told CNN earlier this week when asked if he’s a communist, a label bestowed on him by many critics, including President Donald Trump.
"I’ve said that time and again."
Despite his several rejections of the communist label, a Fox News Digital review found several examples of Mamdani advocating and backing communist principles, including calling for the seizure of the "means of production."
"Right now, if we're talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we're talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country," Mamdani told a Democratic Socialists of America conference in 2021.
"But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment."
The phrase "seizing the means of production" traces back to Karl Marx’s 1848 "The Communist Manifesto" in which he promotes the idea of workers taking control of factories from private owners.
Lee Edwards, a former Heritage Foundation fellow and conservative scholar until his death last year, wrote in 2018 that Marx was an "atheist socialist who insisted that his was the only ‘scientific' socialism based not on wishful thinking but the inexorable laws of history."
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Democratic Socialist is what communists call themselves in public. Been there, done that when I was young and stupid.
He is the best of rich communist, good for me but not for thee
Commies not welcome.
We’re making progress. I remember when timid Republicans apologized for calling a communist a communist.
Moncommie will win. I was talking to my dentist who happens to be a leftist Jewish woman. She believes everything that comes on lamestream media. Including that the National Guard is a waste of resources being deployed in cities. This is upstate NY we are talking about.
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