WATCH: Zohran Mamdani Comes Out Against Private Property

Zohran Mamdani, the pro-communist New York City mayoral frontrunner, said in a recently resurfaced clip that he is in favor of abolishing private property in the Big Apple.

“My platform is that every single person should have housing, and I think faced with these two options, the system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right? For what?” Mamdani, who defeated former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a shocking primary upset last month, said in the resurfaced video.

“If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now,” Mamdani continued. “People try and play like gotcha games about these kinds of things, and it’s like, look, I care more about whether somebody has a home,” he added.

The latest look at Mamdani’s radical views generated outrage among conservatives, including U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), as the pro-communist candidate attempts to downplay his positions. “He claims to be a socialist, whether it’s wanting to abolish private property or wanting to seize the means of production, these are communist ideas right out of the playbook of Karl Marx,” Malliotakis told Fox News.

“The fact that too many members of the media, too many members of the Democrat Party, are willing to go along instead of calling him out on it is disturbing, and I think that if the majority of New Yorkers knew what this guy truly stands for and how destructive and dangerous his policies are, there’s no way that they vote from, because so many in our city fled places where socialism and communism destroyed their lives,” Malliotakis, whose mother fled communism to the United States from Cuba, added.

Mamdani — who is widely expected to become the next mayor of America’s biggest city — has expressed support for a number of explicitly communist and anti-American positions throughout his political career.

In one infamous post from December 2020, Mamdani reposted a tweet celebrating the election of a communist mayoral candidate in India. “Comrade Arya Rajendran, age 21 new Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala. She will be the youngest mayor of a major city in the world. Here she leads a detachment of Red Volunteers,” reads the post, which was posted from an official communist party account.

“Them: what kind of mayor does NYC need right now?” Mamdani reposted before confirming that he was endorsing this kind of leadership.

Mamdani has also vowed to implement government-run grocery stores, another hallmark of communist societies. His plan would introduce at least one government-run store in each of the city’s five boroughs as part of his plan to “reduce food insecurity.”

Such plans could decimate the city’s small businesses and bodega scene, as grocery stores typically operate on razor thin profit margins between one and three percent.

Mamdani, who gained U.S. citizenship just eight years ago, has been described as “not American” by his own mother. “He is not an American at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian,” Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair, told the Hindustan Times.

President Donald Trump has taken a hardline against Mamdani, who has further vowed to openly defy the federal government, particularly in regards to immigration enforcement. “Well, then we’ll have to arrest him,” the president said when asked about Mamdani’s plans to defy federal law.

“Look, we don’t need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I’m going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation. We send him money, we send him all the things that he needs to run a government.”