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Many thought he couldn’t do it in New York City. He has found a way.
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The Communist Twelver Shi’ite mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, made a major announcement on Tuesday: he is beginning to implement the Marxist seizure of property in New York City.
He did not, of course, state that in so many words. As Marxists always do, he couched his plans in the language of social justice, claiming that he was striking out against bad landlords and providing an opportunity for all New Yorkers to live in decent, fairly-priced housing. And as is always the case with Marxist promises, Mamdani’s big announcement was an obvious and flagrant lie to cover up for his seizure of private property, not so much on behalf of the city government as for the benefit of his far-left cronies.
Mamdani announced that he was going to seize rental properties from landlords who have not maintained them properly, and hand over ownership not to the city government, but to supposedly impartial players and fair dealers such as “community land trusts” and “non-profits.”
“For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect,” Mamdani announced proudly, “we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”
Anyone who has been paying attention to Mamdani’s rapid rise could have seen this coming. Intifada on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani details how he has made socialized housing a centerpiece of his program ever since he entered politics. “People often ask,” he wrote on December 3, 2020, “what socialists mean when we say we want to ‘decommodify’ housing. Basically, we want to move away from a situation where most people access housing by purchasing it on the market & toward a situation where the state guarantees high-quality housing to all.”