Socialism is Economic Cancer

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Thanks to a clip surfacing on social media today, we see that Mamdani is not hiding this. In fact, he has been strikingly open about what he believes and what he plans to do. You can listen to his comments for yourself here.

Speaking in 2021 at the Young Democratic Socialists of America Organizing Conference, Mamdani said his goal is to “continue to elect more socialists” and to be “unapologetic about our socialism.”

He followed that with two key objectives: boycotting Israel and “seizing the means of production.”

The phrase “seizing the means of production” is not some vague slogan—it is the core tenet of Marxist revolutionary ideology. It means that private property, businesses, and industries are taken from their owners and turned over to collective or state control.

Historically, this has been done not through elections or peaceful reform, but through authoritarian rule, state violence, and mass suppression.

Quoth the Raven
June 30th, 2025
“Seize The Means Of Production”: Mamdani Lays Bare His Agenda

Part of me wants to say, “Go for it! You can be a bad example for the current generation.” But that would be like rooting for cancer in your foot. It is already stinky, and it is not something you show off to your friends, but cancer is still a really bad thing.

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12 thoughts on “Socialism is Economic Cancer”

  1. When your foot becomes gangrenous, you amputate. Or perhaps a better analogy is leprosy. Your foot eventually becomes so sick it ceases to function and falls off. (See San Francisco).
    Yet SF never became the warning to others not to try this. Others will just try harder. (See NYC).

    Providing an example isn’t enough. (USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, etc ..) You must actively fight disease, you don’t hope your hand learns from your foot…

  2. I think John Carpenter was a visionary.

    Build a wall, mine the bridges and tunnels, and shoot anyone trying to leave.

  3. Socialism is communism…which like islam is fundamentally incompatible with a functional productive society. And like cancer you cannot allow it to exist for it will ALWAYS grow, spread and destroy. That means the only rational response to those who espouse either ideology is to permanently remove them from this plane of existence. They can go be commies or muslims in the afterlife.

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  5. I agree with the cancer analogy. And all the comments made.
    I would also posit that just like cancer, it is always in our bodies. Just waiting and working on our immune system to weaken it just enough to start growing it’s tumors.
    This should be the fundamental shift in our thinking. Toward always being on guard over our immunities. Keeping it healthy. Rather than having to fight the tumors that always follow our weaknesses.
    Communism is not about just money. It’s about exploitation of weakness in a given system.
    Like a tree splitting a rock.
    Were humans, we have discernment. We should not be surrendering our God given sense of right and wrong to tyrants and communists.
    Even in the smallest of matters.

  6. There is no question Communism, Marxism and Socialism, in any flavor and in any degree, is stunningly destructive; sane people do not willingly and eagerly embrace self destruction.

    Then we have the Democrats.

    But, I’m thinking DARPAnet here; the idea behind it was a self-healing network, today we call it “the internet.” Despite the clunkiness of TCP/IP it routes around failure, subversion and conflict. Enterprise system designers, at least the brighter ones, tend to favor distributed systems with redundancy. Lots of redundancy. Lots of backup capability. Lots of recovery paths, like ships with multiple compartments and watertight doors.

    In Real Life, so do people.

    If, and it’s still a big “If,” Mandami gets elected (I will concede that if it’s possible Mandami does get elected, New York City is at the very top of the list for places where something like that could happen) it will be a large milestone on the An Educational Moment highway. Adam Smith said “there’s a lot of ruin in a nation” to point out that sound, distributed, redundant systems can tolerate a lot of crap before failing. He was thinking “economics,” which in his day was distributed by default because then economies were composed primarily of small, independent businesses spread over a wide area, which is still slightly true (but only slightly, because of the centripetal nature of taxation-driven economics).

    That said, NYC is, still, somewhat of a jewel in the crown, economically. A lot of companies Learned Something on a September morning 24 years ago; a number of them learned it directly, others through observation. Geography, in that case, is driven by technology: 9 inches of high purity copper wire at room temperature is one nanosecond, and when billions are being moved constantly, fractions of nanoseconds count. Glass fiber is faster, but the principle stands – closer is faster, which explains the concentration of economy-centric businesses in NYC. Even with high purity fiber and the latest microprocessors, a broker in Des Moines will lose to the kids on Water Street every time.

    If, however, everyone relocates to Des Moines, Cleveland, Austin, and Atlanta, it becomes largely moot, and that is what Mandami will accomplish (actually, he’ll just push them halfway to Newark, which is not quite the same. but will have a similar effect on Manhattan’s economy, the end result will be “don’t stand in the doorway because you’ll get run over”). The other consideration is “what would that do to the nation’s economy, starting with the effect on NYC?” Initially, it would be negative. LOTS of negative because a Democrat win anywhere would encourage Democrats everywhere and a little success, after losing so much to Trump (actually, the Dems are losing to the American people but they’re not smart enough to figure that out) anything that looks even remotely like a “win” would draw them like moths to a flame. But back to that “distributed” thing; a Mandami win would make NYC look like California – a small but rapid exodus, followed by a steady flow. It’s killing California, but to paraphrase Adam Smith, there may be a lot of ruin in a state but I suspect a great deal less in a city.

  7. Socialism is founded in the violation of the tenth commandment. So much so that socialism cannot be so much as contemplated without said violation. Quite simply then, the total, complete, and flagrant violation of the 10th commandment is a prerequisite to socialism;

    “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ass, nor his ox, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.” From Exodus 20 KJV

    Not only is socialism founded in the violation of the 10th, it appears to be targeting each individual clause of the 10th commandment specifically;

    House and home
    Family
    Labor
    Transportation
    Means of production
    Private property in general

    Socialism is also in virtually perfect harmony with Catholic Social Doctrine. Indeed, it has every appearance of being a secularized version of it. The two are so alike, in fact, that one is given to wonder whether they arose independently, or whether one is the deliberate product of the other.

    And, founding one’s entire system on the willful violation of one law, leads to the willful violation of all of them;

    “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” James 2:10

    And so we see a direct warning of what is referred to elsewhere as “the abomination of desolation”; an entire system of government, mindsets and beliefs that leads invariably to mass destruction.

  8. NYC is about to give itself some of Heinlein’s “Bad Luck”.

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