Posted on 08/08/2025 7:12:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Zohran Mamdani, mayoral candidate in New York City, has been expressing high hopes of spreading socialism around New York. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has admitted to assisting Mamdani with his platform and having helped him win the primary.
Mamdani tosses out Marxist quotes — control the means of production, altering private property ownership, state-run grocery stores, free transportation — but there is more, or perhaps less, to the current Democratic Socialists, and therefore more, or perhaps less, to Mamdani.
There used to be a clear distinction between socialism and communism. When the Communist Manifesto was released, socialism was an unpopular word, so they called it communism. Now the word communism is not so popular, so they are calling themselves socialists. Most Western countries already have some form of socialist mix: Electric companies and local transportation are often owned by cities or counties rather than individuals. When you are talking about controlling the means of production and manipulating private property, that is 100% communist.
Marx’s most notable sayings have become a sexy lexicon for many young people looking for something more out of politics. Universities have popularized a counterculture with illusions of working systems. What they do not share is exactly what it takes to make it happen, and then what it takes to keep it on the desired utopian path.
Fox News has quoted Daniel Goulden, a DSA leader: “With Zohran, we’re in basically the best possible position to seize state power that we can be in because, you know, we’re like this.” Daniel Goulden has said that a socialist mayor could lead to state power — again, no mention of how to go about doing this.
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He’s just trying to advance and enrich himself off the the ignorant voter base that will buy into his schtick and put him in office.
If the NYC meatheads elect that creepy piggy, it will indicate the beginning of the end of America.
Most likely he will be more to the middle than people here think. He just knows the most politically active people in NYC are hardcore socialists, while the vast majority of voters are mostly indifferent.
You can only take rich people’s money once then it’s gone just like the Russian revolution
He is a puppet set to ruin NYC as an American hub/cuty
That’s all
He’ll get in and do it too.
What he says (to get elected) and what he wants are likely 2 different things.... though what he says is bad enough.
I could care less. They get what they deserve.
As absurd as he is, he should be easily embarrassed. I look at him as being just some guy who’s out of his league and doesn’t even know it. Treat him with harsh scrutiny and sharp ridicule. Maybe that would put him in his place.
Are you forgetting that Zohran Mamdani is a practicing Twelver Shia Muslim? And Muslims practice taqiyya, or lying to further Islam.
The only positive thing this guy has done is to flush out just how many ignorant people we are infested with who consider his politics the right way to run a city. Idiots.
If you have to ask, you’re ignorant, at best.
Considering the 2.1 million Jews who live in NYC, to elect a muzzie as mayor would be unthinkable. They need to be snapped out of their stupor.
MOSSAD...you know what to do.
I’m just a novice when it comes to political theory.
But I think true socialism requires the state to seize the means of production.
This is usually done by a seizing, securing, and occupying territory where the production takes place.
Simple question?
How much means of production remains to be seized in the territory of NYC?
Mamdani seems to have the same problem as Zelensky.
Zelensky wants to wage a war and have Uncle Same write the checks to pay for it.
Same deal here, Mamdani want to establish a grand socialist state and have taxpayers OUTSIDE the territory he governs to pay for it.
Communism was an anarchist fantasy, what even Gorbachev called, "The Beautiful Lie." No matter what, someone will exercise control of property. Control is effectively ownership.
It's fun to walk up to a communist at a demonstration on a cold day and say, "Nice jacket. I'm cold. Gimme the jacket." That person will of course say "No." Reply: "You're a communist, so you don't own it. We all do. I'm cold. Now gimme the damned jacket, pig!!!" And so on.
One thing is almost certain, he and his cronies will be much more wealthy pretty fast.
He’ll be deported if he even comes close to taking office, but I believe NY voters will come to their senses. They need to look at Chicago as a cautionary tale.
He’s definitely full of something! And I ain’t talking empty words.
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