NYC candidate Zohran Mamdani denies communist label despite ideology

New York Socialist City Candidate Zahran Mamdani He has repeatedly insisted that he is not “communist” when journalists ask him despite the date of promoting communist numerouss, which led many to put this sign on it.

“No, I am a democratic socialist,” Mamdani told CNN earlier this week when asked whether he was a communist, a sign that many critics have given, including President Trump.

“I said it again and again.”

Despite many of his rejection of the Communist brand, the Fox News Digital review has found many examples of Mamdani that defend and support communist principles, including the call to seize “production means”.

It seems that the council member in New York City, which originated under Communism warns on Mamdani’s main sites: “The dangerous situation”

The Democratic Democratic Candidate in New York City, Zahran Mamdani, speaks to volunteers in the launch of Canvass in Brooklyn on September 28, 2025. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific/Lightrockket via Getty Images)

“If we are talking about the cancellation of students’ debts, if we are talking about Medicare for everyone, as you know, these are issues that have the basis of popular support throughout this country,” Mamdani said at the Democratic Socialists Conference in America in 2021.

“But then, there are also other problems that we believe in firm belief, whether BDS or whether the ultimate goal of seizing the means of production is, as we do not have the same level of support at this particular moment.”

The phrase “seizing the means of production” tracks the Communist statement of Carl Marx for the year 1848, which is promoted the idea of ​​controlling factories from the owners of the private sector.

Lee Edwards, a former fellow of the Conservative Heritage and Researcher until his death last year, Books in 2018 This was Marx “an atheist socialist who insisted that the only” scientific “socialism that does not depend on thinking about wishing but rather the unavoidable laws.”

“All history, Marx, his close collaborator and his friend Frederic Engels, declared the history of the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The inevitable collapse of capitalism and the victory of the proletariat will lead to the end of the advanced list. Utopia, including the gradual income tax, the abolition of private property, free education for all, and the centralization of means of communication and transportation in the state’s hands.

The private ownership found the goal of Mamdani in the past on many occasions, including in the Fox News Digital video It was reported in July When Mamdani said, “If there is any system that can guarantee every resident, whether you are calling it to cancel or calling private property, as you know, just a residential guarantee at the state level, then it is better for what is going on now.”

The Washington Post is the editorial describes Mamdani “to save talented students in the name of fairness”

The mayor of the Democratic Municipality in New York City, Zahran Mamdani, spoke to supporters at the Canvass launch event at Prospect Park on Sunday, August 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heaven/Fox News Digital)

The Mamdani platform also includes a progressive tax plan aimed at “imposing taxes on the richest New York population” that comes under its background The last claim He does not think that billionaires should be present.

Communist sympathy can also be found in the inner circle of Mamdani based on reporting earlier this year that part of “Trust Brain Trust” in his campaign includes CEA Weaver, a housing activist who has close relations with communist organizations.

Wafer is the former director of alliances for justice for all, and it is a group that calculates dozens of extremist groups in the left as a coalition, including the Communist Party in the United States of America and the young communist association in New York.

“Electing more Communists,” Waver posted on social media in 2017, The New York Post mentioned. “The seizure of private property”, published in 2018.

when Fox News Digital In July on whether he was a communist and whether he intends to retract any of his previous statements full of communism to win the support of the minority leader in the House of Representatives, Mamdani did not respond.

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Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the “Angeles T. Arndo Plaipus” at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News that Mamdani is “completely communist” “repeated lines from the Communist statement and other writings written by Karl Marx.”

“When Marxists say today that they are socialists, they usually want to convey the impression that they believe in elections and not only in photographing your way to power,” Gonzales added. “Of course, these elections often end as a free and fair time. Watch Venezuela.”

The Mamdani platform also includes invitations to the state to operate the basic operations in New York City, including bus lines and groceries.

“State stores are bread and communism butter, but they do not contain bread or butter and are usually empty,” Gonzalez, who Essay In July, entitled “Mamdani is the mayor of New York Democrats deserve”, he told Fox News Digital.

In 1875, Marx wrote this phrase, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

In 2020, Mamdani published a similar version of that Mantra, Writing on x“Each according to their need, each according to their ability.”

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Also in 2020, Mamdani publicly called for a Communist mayor in New York City in A. After x He said that the next mayor of the city should be like “Comrade Aria Rajdran”, a Communist mayor in India.

The Social Democrats in America, a tight alignment group with Mamdani that the New York Post I mentioned recently Mamdani is expected to support their agenda if elected, and has long been supported by communist personalities and regulations.

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