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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made it abundantly clear: he loves collectivism and hates individualism, and intends to implement his collectivist vision as fully as he possibly can while he lives in Gracie Mansion. He has been marketed as an exciting new face, full of energy and brimming with new ideas, but in reality, he is fronting for ideas that are both old and discredited and that are responsible for the deaths of untold millions of people. On Thursday, a man from one of the populations that has suffered the most because of collectivism gently mocked Mamdani’s delusions and pretensions.
Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for investment and economic cooperation, on Thursday replied to video of Mamdani saying “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” with this: “Dear Comrade Mamdani — just a friendly reminder that this has been tried before. For good measure, he added a gif from The Simpsons, depicting a zombie V. I. Lenin stalking out of his tomb and saying: “Must crush capitalism!”
Dmitriev wasn’t just needling Mamdani when he addressed him as “comrade.” This is a term Mamdani himself has used. As Intifada on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani details, in late Feb. 2021, Mamdani, who was then a member of the New York state assembly, was a featured speaker at the online Winter Outreach Conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America, which on its logo presented three primary slogans: “Cancel Student Debt,” “Defund the Police,” and “COVID-19 Relief.”
Mamdani, who had been a member of the assembly for a few days shy of two months, demonstrated his deep Marxist convictions as he happily reported to the attendees: “I am very lucky in that I have five other DSA-endorsed comrades who are with me in the assembly and the state senate.” He explained that it was important to have such “comrades” because they made it “much easier to run a campaign that will be built around raising class consciousness.” That would involve showing that the various issues of the day were actually “an issue of capitalism.”
Mamdani lamented that “we clearly do not have the numbers, as they are at this moment, to win the radical legislation that we need to bring about.” Consequently, “we have to continue to elect more socialists. And we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.” He touted an academic boycott campaign that would prohibit students from studying at universities in Israel that he claimed had developed weapons technology for the Israel Defense Forces.
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Wellington says
Only complete fools learn nothing from history. Mamdani comes to mind.
OLD GUY says
Mamdani loves collectivism aș long as it dosen’t collect him, his property and freedoms. These leaders like Mamdani never give up anything they just take.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, this is the most hilarious story so far: a Russian official warning an American mayor that he’s leading the US towards communism. Granted, Russia has its issues, but even they’re not that stupid
Gealea says
I am surprised that Putin’ man denounces the life long timevM whrn KGB Communist Putin lived And prkmoted collectivism
࿗Infidel࿘ says
He has not promoted collectivism, and he is not a communist. If he were, he’d have been the leader of the CPRF – the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which succeeded the CPSU after the latter was banned by Yeltsin in 1991. Instead, he leads a party called United Russia, which is a party that promotes the oligarchy
Yeah, there are improvements that Russia can and should make in how its economy is architected and managed, but Central Planning is not one of them
somehistory says
Clearly he is trying to destroy the country….from within. That is the goal of the mb and that is defined in the Law as treason.
Socialism and capitalism are not the same, as everyone knows. Taking from the rich, with the claim (a lie of course) that the money will be distributed to the poor, as they need, when in reality the money goes into the pockets of those taking it…is in direct contrast to the Constitution.
One must ‘pursue” happiness; people like the scuzzy-muzzie can’t give it, even if he actually wanted to do so. and he doesn’t really want to.
if a russian can see what a goon is now in control in NYC, then why can’t those who fall for his lies, see it?
tgusa says
So there are more commies in democrat controlled cities than there are in Russia. Well that explains the decline of those cities.
WPM says
The red green alliance is very strong in many blue cities in America. From the cities in Minnesota ,to the rust belt cities of Michigan ,Ohio ,upstate NY .Now NYC the largest ,most important financial centers in America has voted in this drama kid communist under the banner free stuff for all! I will see how all those hipsters with degrees in gender studies ,and African folk tails enjoy waiting for bread at the “government” supermarkets and spying on one another like what went on in Est Germany .
Westman says
We’ve seen this movie before, “Escape From New York City”.
Give it enough time and those who are left will be terrorized by the thugs when it becomes a zero-sum Big Apple. There will be poor City services and corrupt, uncaring police when the good people and corporations of NYC leave.
It’s worthwhile to recognize that Russian never had fully functional capitalism nor a well educated populace before the Bolshevic Revolution that brought Communism. They are now capitalists, a rising power, and will never go back.
The idea that the US, having experienced 80 years of prosperity will go to communism is false. There would be civil war before it was permitted nation-wide and/or a breakup of the US into sections.
Let the test in NYC begin to demonstrate why “Old Europe” is going broke
Andrew Blackadder says
So this muslim prick who was born in East Africa comes to THE biggest Capitalist country operating on Christian values has now managed to get himself into a powerful position where he can destroy our home from within.
Those who cannot see this bullshit Con Man for what he, and his Father both are, then they deserve what they get.
In one year, or less, we will witness the demise of NYC.
I lived there for two years in the early 1980s and loved the City and this current crap breaks my heart.
James Lincoln says
Once the financial services industries leave for Florida or Texas, New York City will become worse than St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Camden, etc.
WPM says
True the financial services industries pays most of the taxes. Gives good salaries to thousands of people. The spin off in real estate ,other service industries ,is all from the financial industry, Like Detroit depended on car manufacturing and related industry spin off after they mostly left around 45-50 years ago you have just a dying city. With the threat of more taxes ,more regulation ,threats of heavily regulated in real estate by the government ,more under handed ways of the government to steal your long term gains in investments why would you stay as an investment firm.? You have people running these firms that make their living seeing long term trends ,setting goals making decisions only on the bottom line. Communist hate capitalist as much as Moslems hate Jews , the firms can and will move to friendly states that appreciate .It is the only solution why wait for the businesses to be butchered like cattle by the communist to feed to the free stuff crowd ,then the free stuff crowd can starve when there is no milk from the cows .
Winston 101 says
Mamdani and his Totalitarian Red – Green Alliance. However it developes Comrade/Ayatollah Mamdani can’t loose. You get a Totalitarian Government either way.
Eventually, one faction has to have Primacy. Which ever one wins out he will claim it was his goal all along.
I’m going with the ’79 Iranian Revolution as a template, with NY City Characteristics. So if the Red Characteristics are most useful, for now, he’ll go with those. If not, Green it is!
If the fact that there are more agents of Islam, and growing, he’ll go with the Green.
I’m going with Islam. Islam will outnumber and outbreed the Socialists hands down.
To keep both of these Totalitarian forms of Government out of the U.S. bar entry to the people that believe in their Doctrines. Both Islam and Communism have Governmental Doctrines that are incompatible with the U S Constitution and Bill of Rights and Western Civilization and thus American way of life.
mark C says
Genesis 18: 32…..
Jim says
Truly amazing that a Russian high official is making fun of the communist mayor of NYC! I never thought I would see the day!