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When many Democrats on Friday voted in favor of a resolution condemning socialism, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was on his way to what turned out to be a surprisingly cordial meeting with President Donald Trump. Asked about the resolution, Mamdani responded: “I have to be honest with you, I focus very little on resolutions, frankly. I think the focus is on the work at hand. I can tell you I am someone who is a democratic socialist. I’ve been very open about that. I know there might be differences about ideology, but the place of agreement is the work that needs to be done to make New York City affordable. That’s what I look forward to.”
Mamdani has indeed been open about being a democratic socialist, and has even affirmed the label in the context of denying that he is a communist. When he won the Democrat primary in late June, President Donald Trump, less friendly than he was during their Friday meeting, called Mamdani “a 100% Communist Lunatic.” Asked if he really was a communist, Mamdani responded emphatically: “No, I am not. I call myself a democratic socialist, in many ways, inspired by the words of [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.] from decades ago, who said, ‘Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism: There has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country.’”
Mamdani’s answer, which he has repeated on other occasions as well, actually raised more questions than it answered. The democratic socialist wunderkind invoked Martin Luther King in speaking of the alleged need for a “better distribution of wealth,” but did not explain why the best distribution of wealth isn’t the simple process of someone working, getting fairly compensated for his or her labor, and being able to dispose of that compensation as he or she sees fit. Why must there be government-mandated “distribution” of wealth at all? To talk as if such government action is necessary is to talk like a communist, the very thing Mamdani has repeatedly denied being.
In fact, the program of the Democratic Socialists of America, to which Mamdani belongs, sounds very much like communism. The Democratic Socialists of America denounce capitalism as a “system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit” and proclaim: “We want a democracy that creates space for us all to flourish not just survive and answers the fundamental questions of our lives with the input of all. We want to collectively own the key economic drivers that dominate our lives, such as energy production and transportation. We want the multiracial working class united in solidarity instead of divided by fear.”
Peel away the lofty rhetoric, and that’s a call for collective ownership of “the key economic drivers that dominate our lives,” which in practice has always meant government ownership of the means of production — for which Mamdani himself called in 2020. Democratic socialism, then, and communism are essentially identical.
Many people assume, of course, that what distinguishes democratic socialism from communism is that democratic socialism is genuinely “democratic,” while communism aims to implement the dictatorship of the proletariat.
This, too, however, is a distinction without a difference. Communist regimes have not infrequently called themselves democratic: think of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Many in the West have taken such names as an exercise in cynical deception, but there is more going on here than just that. In his biography of the founder of the Soviet Union, Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror, Victor Sebestyen explains that “Lenin in power had no intention of allowing a free parliament. He may on occasions in the past have written in praise of elections. But he didn’t believe in ‘bourgeois democracy’ on principle and certainly not in practice for a revolutionary state. The dictatorship of the proletariat and the authority of the Soviet were ‘not only a higher form of democracy…[but] the only form of democracy.’”
How could it be otherwise? The dictatorship of the proletariat was the workers’ tool for establishing a just society in which he would finally enjoy what was his due: a “better distribution of wealth,” as Mamdani put it. Thus it was the truest and fullest expression of what democracy really was.
Zohran Mamdani is therefore both a democratic socialist and a communist. There is no contradiction between the two. This will become clearer as he settles in as mayor and begins to implement his agenda. Pay close attention, comrades!
Just another Commie Socialist we have been warned before about them by McCarthy
Tail-Gunner Joe was prescient and the progenitors of cancel culture and racialist politics destroyed him, so that. now their acolytes, in government, Mediia and most dangerously Academia, all these decades later are a red nether hair’s breadth from finally seizing absolute power..
Lenin insisted that the dictatorship he crafted was based on the principles of Democratic Centralism. Democracy is the word that authoritarians inevitably fall back on to disguise theiir authoritarianism Would you believe that even in the US there is a political party of Jew-haters and racists that calls itself Democrat?
Someone ,had once said that “A Socialist is a Communist without a gun,” So that possibly might be the difference ?
In addition, about the meeting between President Trump and Zohran Mamdani that went so well
This is ,somewhat , of a strange thing to occur. Marxist Mamdani enters the White House and has a friendly meeting with the Capitalist President Trump. Sure ,that event isn’t impossible , but it is rather odd., indeed very odd.
President Trump sat while Zero I. Madman stood with his hands folded and tried to play nice. The power of the chief executive was on display with no need to throw it around. The next day, there was executive action against Islamists.
As said a Democratic-Socialist is simply a tool to get elected and then institute communist totalitarianism. It’s a matter of degree and what you can get away with.
Their are people who are supposedly oppressed and people who are supposedly oppressors?:
That’s naked communism. That’s what Moron Mommydady preaches.
I haven’t been oppressed. Have any of you? Any lying trolls out there?
Enjoy, NYC! I wouldn’t live in that shithole for all the tea in China. You got exactly the incompetent retard you voted for. A quim who’s never had a job in his life. Squirm under the coming torture, you stupid scumbags. I’ll enjoy the schadenfruede. Suffer, bitches..
Lenin maintained the goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx maintained essentially the same thing. Mamdani’s theology/cosmology may or may not recognize that reality, but the impact promises to be the same refrain—under Socialism/Communism, the elites remain powerful and wealthy, and the rest live powerless and impoverished.
Do you believe that Mamdani’ is telling the truth ? I doubt it, he & that ilk are ” Masters of the Black Arts”
They have had years of practice which they got all the information on how to deceive from their ” Holy
Bible.”
The Communists had their daily newspaper Pravda, meaning Truth in English, but nearly every story was a lie !!
To quote the late great man “Inside every democratic socialist is a totalitarian screaming to get out” Rest in Peace Mr Horowitz
Mamdani gave his definition of what he was as a socialist democrat: someone who “cares about human dignity for all.” And the Gen Z illiterates swooned for him.
Certs is a candy mint……Certs is a breath mint
ManniIslammi is a communist. ManniIslammi is a social democrat.
Stop, you’re both right. Both names are worthless. He’s is simply a grifting thief and a liar.
Michael Volensky’s 1984 book “Nomenklatura: Anatomy Of The Soviet Ruling Class” quotes a popular old Soviet joke:
“We are asked: under capitalism, man is exploited by other people. How does this work under socialism? We answer: under socialism, it is the other way around.”
Communist ,Zohran Mamdani,, wants to abolish the prisons which would free many vicious psychopaths and sociopaths to attack and maliciously harm decent peaceful law abiding citizens, Such criminal chaos and would destroy New York City beyond repair , the colossal damage to it do would be so terrible that is would be irreversible .
Furthermore, in time would spread to other State and cities across America.
With this policy of disaster Mamdani, has clearly exposed his Communist side of his comrades of the Red/Green alliance .
Mamdani sinister scheme freeing the criminals which would be very destructive to the United States is a reflection of founder of Communism, Karl Marx , who had written “If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt shall I fling my glove in the world’s face, then I shall stride through the wreckage a creator !”
In the ‘Manifesto of the Communist Party’ by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, in the February 1848 edition, it defines who Democratic Socialists are under the section of ‘The Principles of Communism’. In the 24th principle on page 53 states, “These democratic socialists are either proletarians who are not yet sufficiently clear about the conditions of the liberation of their class, or they are representatives of the petty bourgeoisie, a class which, prior to the achievement of democracy and the socialist measures to which it gives rise, has many interests in common with the proletariat.”
The bottom-line according to Marx and Engels is that Democratic Socialists are not part of the classic Communist working class. The old working-class order only has their skills to sell to the bourgeoisie and compete against their fellow workers for employment. Whereas Democratic Socialists, pretend to be part of the working class but are really the petty bourgeoisie. These people are either self-employed or are small business owners who hire the proletariat and profit from their surplus value. The other people grouped into the Democratic Socialists category are the old working-class order, who are still intellectually stuck in the mindset of fighting for change within the capitalistic model. That means for workers to unionize, fight for better pay and working conditions. It also means such workers have not seen the light in overthrowing the current political system and replacing it with a one-party state via a dictatorship of the proletariat, which is the definition of Communism.
But of course, the most salient goal in a purely socialistic model is that eventually Communism (a single party state controlling the means of production, no private ownership and all forms of religion outlawed) will slowly be dissolved, leading to an utopian society. Since any forms of utopianism have always been unachievable in the history of mankind thus, any economic theory trying to achieve those ends would be morally bankrupt. Therefore, why even bother labeling yourself as a Democratic Socialist if you have no desire to eventually seek a Communistic economic and social model. When in the end, you’re just people working within a capitalistic economy; whether you’re the working class, self-employed or small business owner.
Didn’t Marx say Democracy is the road to Socialism and Socialism leads to Communism?
And, Ayn Rand said Socialism is enslavement by vote and Communism by force…former is suicide and the latter is murder.