We congratulate New York City for their astounding mayoral choice. Forget his sympathies for the perpetrators of 9/11 and his overt anti-Semitism – that’s ancient history. Let us focus on Zohran Mamdani’s real passion: Marxism.

Mamdani is a self-proclaimed Marxist, just like the heads of BLM and the non-existent ANTIFA organization that burns down cities and assaults journalists. Mamdani openly quotes Marx’s Communist Manifesto, and promotes the Marxist ideology of violent revolution – just like ANTIFA and BLM (see Manifest section 4).

NYC Democrats have demonstrated extreme discipline by ignoring 110 years of Socialist disasters, while still demanding the Marxist “dictatorship of the proletariat”. It is strange that Mamdani’s privileged Gen-Z supporters, who attended Columbia and Harvard, would self-identify as Proletarians (Manifesto, Ch.2). Perhaps the Ivy League is where Marxists find their “useful idiots”.

However, Mamdani’s promise to “seize the means of production” and put bureaucrats in charge of our lives sounds very cool! Alexandria Ocasio Cortez makes it sound sexy. Paradise gained! Like in Maoist China!

Communists in China murdered about 65 million in the name of Marxist revolution. Eventually they dumped the Marxism that kept the population destitute, though they still do not have political freedom. We forgive Mamdani if his elitist education glossed over this inconvenient truth.

Marxists in the USSR only murdered 25 to 35 million innocents — depending on the source (Marxist pride varies). Nobody even knows how many were killed in Eastern Europe. But were it not for that pesky Alexander Solzhenitsyn exposing the GULAG Archipelago, Marxists might never have been inconvenienced by the actual facts.

Two-million innocents were murdered by Marxists in Cambodia, and it is anybody’s guess how many more were murdered in Africa.

But these numbers are too small and places too remote to matter to Mamdani or his supporters who couldn’t even point to Cambodia on a map. What’s another 2 million caskets? Marxist front-man Josef Stalin said: “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” What a brilliant statement of Marxist sentimentality!

Most Marxist nations have gone belly-up, and we’d like to blame President Ronald Reagan for that — but those nations merely self-destructed under socialism. However, Marxists like Mamdani still oversee socialist disasters in North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. Mamdani voters successfully ignore this reality, which demonstrates their religious zeal.

Perhaps Mamdani’s followers have heartburn over Bolivia and Argentina, where pesky democracy (and honest elections) recently booted the “Democratic Socialists” from power. And now Vietnam has ended Marxism and claims Free Markets. Wow! Apparently, residents of those countries failed to see how good they had it under Marxist rule, and they forgot the splendors of Socialism when their children had nothing to eat. But at least they were all equally hungry.

So, congratulations are in order for the Marxists (Communists) who succeeded in this Democrat Party coup: state Gov. Kathy Hochul, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, and many others are now kissing the feet of King Mamdani and Queen AOC. The new breed of American Marxists is so cool!

And, the Democrat Party is now the Party of Marx. Well done indeed!

Going forward, we hope Mamdani does not wait to begin his Marxist transformation of New York city. He must liquidate his family wealth and return it to the People from whom it was stolen (according to Marx) — the same way the Communists in Russia wiped the Bourgeoisie from the face of the Earth.

Mamdani must “seize the means of production” and eliminate all private property, just like the Marxists did in Venezuela where they went from being the wealthiest country in South America to the poorest, all in the name of income equality. Clearly, America will be improved when Mamdani shuts down Wall Street, and shuts down all private businesses. Bernie Sanders will be thrilled – at least until he realizes that there is nobody left to tax. Hey, maybe that’s why Socialism has always failed!

Think how much better the New York Yankees will be when their best players, worst players, and the janitors who clean the locker room are all paid the same under Marx’s “Labor Theory of Value.” And Rachel Maddow will have to surrender her $20 million annual salary while she promotes the Revolution. That’s progress!

History has proven that Socialism, in any form, will spread misery equally — except for Party members. We can’t wait to see all New York City residents being equally miserable and loving it. It’s what they voted for. It’s what they wanted. It’s what they deserve.

Just beware the oxymoronic term “Democratic Socialist.” Mamdani knows that Socialism — by its very nature — is authoritarian and totalitarian. He’s simply a con-artist. The only difference between Socialism and Communism is that the former is suicide, while the latter is murder. But our new breed of Communists, like the old, still has the chutzpah to accuse their Fascist Socialist cousins of evil, in spite of their own dismal history.

But we still have three questions for Mamdani (Marxist) supporters:

(1) How many of you actually read Marx’s “Communist Manifesto”?

(2) Didn’t America become the richest nation in the world precisely because we did not have Socialism?

(3) How will you redistribute all the wealth that Socialism cannot create?

Don’t forget — the original title of the Communist Manifesto was “The Communist Confession of Faith.” It’s your religion, NYC. Good luck.

Michael Dee is a Silver Creek resident and Scott Axelson resides in Jamestown.