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Miranda Devine: History shows that Mamdani’s dangerous plan to seize property from landlords only leads to misery and tyranny
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Zohran Mamdani’s promise to seize the properties of landlords he deems unworthy should send a chill down the spine of every New Yorker.
“When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers,” the socialist mayor told a cheering crowd of leftists in Brooklyn Tuesday when he unveiled his “block by block” housing plan.
“For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards [including] community land trusts, nonprofits, or even the tenants themselves.”
Wherever in history his Marxist prescriptions have been applied, misery and tyranny follow — from Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot, 100 million deaths were caused by communist regimes in the 20th century alone.
This is a lesson the 34-year-old nepo baby appears to have missed — or doesn’t care to heed because the revolution is never about improving the lot of the downtrodden. It’s about seizing power.
Mamdani, having won office on the Democratic Socialists of America ticket, told us what he thought of America in his inaugural address: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” he said.
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By collectivism, he means the state must seize the means of production — the factories, land, businesses, property and capital that generate wealth.
This requires total economic control, which is impossible without total social control.
The result is always one-party rule, secret police, censorship and tyranny.
In his victory speech, Mamdani singled out non-Western immigrants for praise: “I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.”
He gave a........