Among the many words spewed by Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s Marxist-Leninist nominee for mayor of New York City, it’s tough to pick the ugliest.

His “end goal” involves “seizing the means of production.” Government confiscation of industry is textbook Communism. Since 1917, this policy has spread misery from Moscow to East Berlin, Pyongyang, Havana, Managua, and Caracas.

New York State Assemblyman Matt Slater told Fox News that Mamdani “referred to his colleagues” in Albany as his ‘comrades.’” This is an almost comically stereotypical indication that Mamdani is a full-throated Communist, not merely the Leninist-lite “democratic socialist” whom he claims to be.

Mamdani’s hateful statements about the

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