Zohran Mamdanis chilling call for seizing the means of production draws outrage from communist refugees: Dangerous and scary

Several communist refugees and New York pols expressed outrage Monday after a clip resurfaced of presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani noting that one of his goals is “seizing the means of production.”  “After [the] Red October Socialist Revolution in 1917, Bolsheviks seized means of production, jailed or killed business owners, eliminated freedoms & took over private farms & food stores,” former Brooklyn Councilman and communist refugee Ari Kagan wrote on X.“I would never imagine NYC would consider this failed & dangerous government model.” Kagan, a Belarus native who grew up under Soviet-style communism, further told The Post that the clip of Mamdani grinning as he parrots communist godfather Karl Marx’s marching orders is “chilling.” “It’s very chilling to hear that,” the former council member said.

“It’s dangerous and scary.A majority of New Yorkers have to reject this man.”“I remember government-run stores in Minsk.

There were long lines,” Kagan recalled. Mamdani is a double whammy for Kagan, who is Jewish.“He’s a Hamas sympathizer,” the ex-councilman declared. In the resurfaced clip – from a 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference – Mamdani argues that the “purpose” of “this entire project” is “not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism” and elect leaders who are “unapologetic about our socialism.” The mayoral candidate, a self-described Democratic Socialist, notes that certain issues socialists “firmly believe in,” such as boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel and “the end goal of seizing the means of production” are unpopular at the moment but should still be championed. “It is critical to the way that we organize, the way that we set up our, you know, set up our work and our priorities that we do not leave any one issue for the other; that we do not meet a moment and only look at what people are ready for, ...