Zohran Mamdani’s first months in office have confirmed his radical socialism—but his family’s experience in Africa makes this worldview very surprising.
Like most famous communists, Mamdani is from a wealthy family and never really had to work. So was Fidel. So was Che. So was Trotsky. So was Lenin. Marx's family was very well off as well. Like all these heroes of the proletariat, his family's wealth shielded him from the real world experiences that would have moderated his uninformed worldview.
The only people “surprised” by Mamdani’s politics are those who don’t understand Islamo-communism.
In the early 70s, the KGB made a deal with some key Muslim leaders to work together to “destroy the West”.
And they put out pictures of Fidel Castro & Arafat as a sort of wedding announcement. The pics are easily found online.
And the international community of communists & Islamists and Muslims got the message. That’s why the real Left (Marxists) is heavily on the side of Muslims all over the West.
The KGB cannily saw that Muslim “expansionist” theories aligned with their own.
My Cuban communist uncles (who fought alongside Fidel in the Sierra Maestra) trained “Arabs to kill, they’re clueless” in North Africa in the early 70s.
Communist Cubans have fought & died on the side of Muslims & Islamists in Algerian-Moroccan war, the Ogden War & more surreptitiously in many other African conflicts.
Mamdani is an Islamo-communist.
We Cubans have known about them since the 70s.
They’re an evil scourge & are to be taken very seriously by the West, because their aim is to destroy you from within.
I can just imagine you eagerly anticipating the day when Cuba transforms into a vibrant playground, courtesy of MAGA! Who wouldn't want to see a little flair and fun added to the mix? Casinos and whore houses for pedophiles?
1) I am not MAGA, even voted for poor old Biden and worked for the Democratic Party after law school. I live in NYC.
2) I doubt the uptight Miami Cubans, who will have much say in a future Cuba, will allow whorehouses.
The one who bragged about having “the cleanest prostitutes in the world” was Fidel.
It horrified my Cuban communist family members, who are all still loyal, living in Oriente.
My uncles, who fought alongside Fidel were still alive, and nearly wept, it was such a violation of what they’d fought for to hear Fidel say such a thing. Not to mention that under the Castros Cuba has turned into a “sexual tourism” destination, on the same list as Thailand.
Like most Moslems in US politics, socialism is merely the vehicle to power. The young and the stupid can always be seduced. The real purpose of the power is Islam
For some people, revenge is preferable to empathy. The lesson learned by Mamdani from Uganda was not that scapegoating an ethnic minority and forcing them to leave for their own safety is bad, but that it's a quick way to gain power and wealth.
He failed to learn the lessons because he’s a small thinker who seeks great power from the masses and he knows enough to know that the masses are intellectually lazy and will repeat and praise his talking points, not question them, push back on them, or do any other sort of digging that would result in the realization that Mamdani is a socialist fraud with a world view that - while cloaked in a “we will help you” shroud - is as anti-American as it is anti-human progress.
Equitation only works if applied everywhere at once w/o relief via mobile assets & emigration. So: planetize currency, taxes , commo, information, investment, education etc ad infinitum. This will proceed rapidly over next 200 years. Hangenzie in, bitte!
You are not really comparing a taxing strategy with a policy that forcefully expels an _entire sub-culture_ out of the land, are you? Please explain how this comparison makes sense and is not just outlandish.
I mean you say Mamdani and Amin share the same communist-style ideology, and anti-elitist stance, right? But one thing to appreciate is that, even if Mamdani shared that ideology and stance and may indeed be a (long term) thread, then the real issue would be him, and not the idea to introduce taxes for rich people, as vague and difficult as that may be.
It's not the same to, say, follow a strategy to counter the somewhat systemic tendency of accruing wealth to finance programs to sustain a healthy middle class, and to exclaim that to follow through with establishing a state dictatorship to usher in a communist world community it's ok to "forego" 10% of the people.
The debate on whether this form of state-enforced wealth distribution is a good or a bad thing is probably as old as democracy itself, older probably. And it doesn't help at all to "cut through the noise" by making such outlandish comparisons.
I read this thread for more thoughtful commentary - this is a pretty unhelpful perspective - typically invoking an equivalence between communism and socialism and the idea that Mamdani is like Amin is too much.
I don't think the Idi Amin that rose to power was crazy. Maybe you can say that about him in the later third of his life especially with the rumors of him eating his opponents 😂
Like most famous communists, Mamdani is from a wealthy family and never really had to work. So was Fidel. So was Che. So was Trotsky. So was Lenin. Marx's family was very well off as well. Like all these heroes of the proletariat, his family's wealth shielded him from the real world experiences that would have moderated his uninformed worldview.
Interesting. Thanks for this background.
Read Bronkema infra...
I'm pretty sure no one will read this story about Mamdani's family background in the NYTimes.
You’re assuming NY Times adherents can read (with comprehension).
The only people “surprised” by Mamdani’s politics are those who don’t understand Islamo-communism.
In the early 70s, the KGB made a deal with some key Muslim leaders to work together to “destroy the West”.
And they put out pictures of Fidel Castro & Arafat as a sort of wedding announcement. The pics are easily found online.
And the international community of communists & Islamists and Muslims got the message. That’s why the real Left (Marxists) is heavily on the side of Muslims all over the West.
The KGB cannily saw that Muslim “expansionist” theories aligned with their own.
My Cuban communist uncles (who fought alongside Fidel in the Sierra Maestra) trained “Arabs to kill, they’re clueless” in North Africa in the early 70s.
Communist Cubans have fought & died on the side of Muslims & Islamists in Algerian-Moroccan war, the Ogden War & more surreptitiously in many other African conflicts.
Mamdani is an Islamo-communist.
We Cubans have known about them since the 70s.
They’re an evil scourge & are to be taken very seriously by the West, because their aim is to destroy you from within.
I can just imagine you eagerly anticipating the day when Cuba transforms into a vibrant playground, courtesy of MAGA! Who wouldn't want to see a little flair and fun added to the mix? Casinos and whore houses for pedophiles?
1) I am not MAGA, even voted for poor old Biden and worked for the Democratic Party after law school. I live in NYC.
2) I doubt the uptight Miami Cubans, who will have much say in a future Cuba, will allow whorehouses.
The one who bragged about having “the cleanest prostitutes in the world” was Fidel.
It horrified my Cuban communist family members, who are all still loyal, living in Oriente.
My uncles, who fought alongside Fidel were still alive, and nearly wept, it was such a violation of what they’d fought for to hear Fidel say such a thing. Not to mention that under the Castros Cuba has turned into a “sexual tourism” destination, on the same list as Thailand.
Like most Moslems in US politics, socialism is merely the vehicle to power. The young and the stupid can always be seduced. The real purpose of the power is Islam
For some people, revenge is preferable to empathy. The lesson learned by Mamdani from Uganda was not that scapegoating an ethnic minority and forcing them to leave for their own safety is bad, but that it's a quick way to gain power and wealth.
Socialism and communism are the same ideology
Socialism violates personal freedom
Socialism is contrary to human nature
Socialism violates private property
Socialism is against traditional marriage
Socialism violates parental rights in education
Socialism tolerates absolutely no differences and no inequality
Socialism promotes atheism
Socialism promotes relativism
Socialism mocks religion
He failed to learn the lessons because he’s a small thinker who seeks great power from the masses and he knows enough to know that the masses are intellectually lazy and will repeat and praise his talking points, not question them, push back on them, or do any other sort of digging that would result in the realization that Mamdani is a socialist fraud with a world view that - while cloaked in a “we will help you” shroud - is as anti-American as it is anti-human progress.
What a phony!
Equitation only works if applied everywhere at once w/o relief via mobile assets & emigration. So: planetize currency, taxes , commo, information, investment, education etc ad infinitum. This will proceed rapidly over next 200 years. Hangenzie in, bitte!
You are not really comparing a taxing strategy with a policy that forcefully expels an _entire sub-culture_ out of the land, are you? Please explain how this comparison makes sense and is not just outlandish.
I mean you say Mamdani and Amin share the same communist-style ideology, and anti-elitist stance, right? But one thing to appreciate is that, even if Mamdani shared that ideology and stance and may indeed be a (long term) thread, then the real issue would be him, and not the idea to introduce taxes for rich people, as vague and difficult as that may be.
It's not the same to, say, follow a strategy to counter the somewhat systemic tendency of accruing wealth to finance programs to sustain a healthy middle class, and to exclaim that to follow through with establishing a state dictatorship to usher in a communist world community it's ok to "forego" 10% of the people.
The debate on whether this form of state-enforced wealth distribution is a good or a bad thing is probably as old as democracy itself, older probably. And it doesn't help at all to "cut through the noise" by making such outlandish comparisons.
This is a charitable take. An uncharitable take is that no lesson matters other than power, which Mamdani now has.
I read this thread for more thoughtful commentary - this is a pretty unhelpful perspective - typically invoking an equivalence between communism and socialism and the idea that Mamdani is like Amin is too much.
A comment from an uneducated AWLF who is clueless; try resisting the demands of the socialist state and you will see how similar they are.
Ask some of the Jews in NYC how truthful and tolerant and moderate Mamdani is.
He is only different from Idi Amin because he doesn’t have the power to be as totalitarian as Amin.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
I'm not convinced we've ever had 'refugee camps' here in the UK. Could you point me to your sources, please?
This points out interestingly similar viewpoints between two like-minded Socialists. Thanks.
Like father like son. But you'd think the elder learned a life lesson, but guess not, not for academics and spawns.
Comparing Mamdami’s policy to Idi Amin’s is a complete nonsense. Amin was a crazy dictator Mamdami is acting in a (still) civilized democracy.
It's a matter of time.
I don't think the Idi Amin that rose to power was crazy. Maybe you can say that about him in the later third of his life especially with the rumors of him eating his opponents 😂