This might be the ultimate "saying the quiet part out loud" admission from Mayor Zohran Mamdani's tenant director, Cea Weaver. In eye-opening comments that drip with Marxist ideology, she says that, for far too long, people have treated private property as belonging to individuals, not the "collective."
“We are going to...in transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity," she openly states.
“Families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well," she continues, "are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.”
Private property has historically been viewed by communists as a symbol of wealth and selfishness, marking the owners as counter-revolutionaries and a hindrance to progress.
Abolishing private property, and imprisoning or killing any protesting property owners, has therefore been a fundamental step all over the world, from China and Cuba to Cambodia and the Soviet Union.
"Private property, including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership, is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy," Weaver wrote in a 2019 social media post.
Mamdani, who describes himself as a socialist, similarly wrote in 2020 that socialists want to "move away from" people purchasing a home and move toward the state guaranteeing "high-quality housing to all."
It's unlikely Mamdani and Weaver can legally seize private property in New York City, especially in light of the Trump administration being aware of her radical comments.
"We have federal housing laws that trump any collective Marxist fantasies," Department of Justice attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil Rights Division, stated on X.
Washington Times columnist Robert Knight tells AFN that Mayor Mamdani, and the young team he has surrounded himself with, are what indoctrination looks like. They went through an American university system, he said, that is peddling Marxism as the only correct way to look at life.
“They have imbued these students with a hatred for America as it is, a hatred for capitalism, which has produced untold wealth and freedom,” Knight said.
Weaver, who was Mamdani's housing advisor during his mayoral campaign, reportedly comes from a wealthy family. Her mother's home in Nashville, Tennessee is valued at $2.8 million, according to social media sleuths.
A background of wealth and privilege is common among would-be revolutionaries such as Weaver and Mamdani, who is himself the privileged son of wealthy parents.
Knight says socialism has some great ideas -- if you missed the entire 20th century.
“You can't find any successful socialism anywhere in the world," Knight warned. "All you find is misery, widespread poverty, and tyranny, up to and including mass murder. This is communism pure and simple."
