As you’ve probably heard, Zohran Mamdani is the communist who recently declared victory in New York City’s Democrat mayoral primary. He is expected to become mayor in November after the general election.
Mamdani made several fraudulent claims when becoming a U.S. citizen in 2018 at the age of 26. Part of the naturalization process Mamdani went through includes the Oath of Allegiance, during which the applicant must recite the following statement: “I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Prior to taking this oath, Mamdani completed Form N-400. Because of what we know about his political ideology, he lied in answering question 5b within part nine of the form — a question that asks the applicant if they have ever advocated for communism, among other inquiries.
There is no question as to whether Mamdani is a communist. In 2021, Mamdani spoke to the Young Democratic Socialists of America and plainly stated that the “end goal” of his belief system is to “seize the means of production.” In a previous article, I listed Mamdani’s other radical positions, but in calling him a communist, I see no reason to go beyond his stated goal of seizing the means of production, as this is the fundamental economic concept of communism.
Being a communist is mutually exclusive with the Oath of Allegiance — meaning Mamdani committed perjury by making false statements in addition to immigration fraud on Form N-400. Obtuse critics of these claims might question whether Mamdani held communist beliefs while going through the naturalization process.
Mamdani’s interest and activity in politics predate his citizenship. In 2015, he volunteered for Ali Najmi’s campaign for New York City Council’s 23rd District in Queens. Najmi is a far-left criminal defense lawyer practicing in Manhattan. In 2017, Mamdani joined the Democratic Socialists of America and campaigned for Khader El-Yateem, a socialist who at the time was running for city council in New York City.
The Democratic Socialists of America is a de facto communist organization, which means that Mamdani joined a communist enterprise prior to becoming a U.S. citizen. No meaningful difference distinguishes socialism and communism — only trivial, superficial divergences that amount to distinctions without differences. These are well-documented historical facts. Friedrich Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom” is a compendium of brilliant elucidations that detail the inseparable relationship between socialism, totalitarianism, and tyranny.
In his work titled Marxism: Philosophy and Economics, Thomas Sowell noted that both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels used the terms socialism and communism interchangeably “in discussing the post-revolutionary proletarian society in which the means of production would be collectively owned.”
During Stalin’s 1936 address to the Extraordinary Eighth Congress of Soviets of the USSR, he proclaimed: “It is clear that the democratism of the draft of the New Constitution is not ordinary or universally recognized democratism in the abstract, but Socialist democratism.”
Other examples abound. As Beth Brelje noted, the communist apologists fact-checkers at Politifact are unwilling to call a spade a spade. Apparently, for Mamdani to be considered a communist, he must say, “I am a communist!” As I said of Kamala Harris, the flattering labels people apply to themselves are meaningless. A belief system is defined by its ideas, not an arbitrary and often deceptive label.
If a communist can lie during the naturalization process and, merely seven years later, take political control of New York City while running on a platform that includes a proposal to tax white people, then the Oath of Allegiance and Form N-400 are meaningless. They are nothing but a performative charade, intended to weed out the non-existent applicants stupid enough to declare themselves communist enemies of America while filling out the form.
America is supposed to be a serious nation that cares about its sovereignty — that is what this administration promised. Any serious nation with an interest in self-preservation would immediately denaturalize and deport Mamdani. We cannot allow foreign communists to immigrate to America and take control of our institutions.
