Who, Mamdani? He's a democratic socialist, not a communist.

It's like you just confused RAM with SSD because they both involve gigabytes.

"If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now.", Mamdani, 2020

"We have to ensure we are unapologetic about our socialism", Mamdani, 2021

"There are also other issues we firmly believe in [...] weather is the end goal of seizing the means of production", Mamdani, 2021

"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.", Mamdani, 2026

It's funny. You people go up in arms calling Elon Musk a fascist because he made a suspicious gesture with his right hand. But, then you have a guy outright telling you he wants to "seize the means of production" and you make excuses on why he is not actually a communist.

None of what you said challenges the parent, you do realize that don't you? I feel like this only makes sense if you don't know what communism or socialism are.

EDIT: Nevermind I just read the part about the nazi salute lmao, lol even.

> Anna Grzymala-Busse, a Stanford University international studies professor, said that seizing the means of production is a socialist and communist goal. "The difference is that with communism, there is also one ruling party that brooks no opposition and no pluralist civil society," she said.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/03/seizing-means...

Collectivism and some amount of state controlled means of production are typical of many leftist systems. America already does this in many places: military, power, education, civil works. Communism stands out among other -isms on the left in that it is single-party and incompatible with democracy.

> suspicious gesture with his right hand

It was a Nazi salute. Don't believe me? Go to a crowded street corner and do the "suspicious gesture," and gauge the reaction.

> "The difference is that with communism, there is also one ruling party that brooks no opposition and no pluralist civil society,"

So, you proved his point.

He doesn't have a point, because he doesn't know how socialism and communism are alike, and how they differ. He's arguing against what he imagined I wrote.

Again, you're just demonstrating that you don't know the definitions, relationships, and differences between, communism and socialism.

Not that anyone defending Musk's nazi salute should be trusted on anything whatsoever.

Uh, Marx is the one who said "Under no pretext..." but who's keeping score at this point.

Yes, I get that you're trying to express a deeply RWNJ partisan view but as a proud LWNJ I must express that the real world is much more complicated than "commies are nuts yo". Perhaps the issue is rampant authoritarianism?

> Perhaps the issue is rampant authoritarianism?

Yes, you got a president democratically elected by the clear majority of the people in the USA on a clear platform to deport all illegal immigrants (as impossible as that might be in practice), and you - the minority - are flooding the streets, harassing the law enforcement forces and committing crimes to stop the law from being applied even after the majority of the electors told you that they indeed want the law to be applied (in case you had any doubts that the law - that already existed - should indeed be applied).

If that's not rampant authoritarianism, nothing is...

P.S. If you know so much about Marx, you should probably also know that Communists are standing in a long time honored tradition of calling fascists to anyone that's in their way. Stalin was already denouncing Trotsky (you know, the guy that was actually even more ideologically pure about communism than Stalin himself) and his supporters as "fascists" back in 1928.

Just 2 more years for LWNJ to be using the same tactic for 100 years straight... at least they know how to keep traditions, I give them that much.