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‘Language Of The Bolsheviks’: CNN Panel Is All Fun And Games Until Someone Calls Mamdani ‘Communist’

"That is a Communist Party plank. He is talking about doing that. So I don't have any problems with calling him what he is."

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‘Language Of The Bolsheviks’: CNN Panel Is All Fun And Games Until Someone Calls Mamdani ‘Communist’
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CNN’s Bakari Sellers attempted to draw down on Republican commentator Scott Jennings during a Monday evening panel discussion, bristling when Jennings assessed New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani in the same way that President Donald Trump had: “a communist.”

Both Sellers and Jennings addressed the issue on CNN’s “NewsNight” with host Abby Phillip, discussing a recent video that showed Mamdani throwing around Marxist terms such as “seizing the means of production” and using government funds to buy up housing developments that would eventually be community-owned.

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“Calling him a communist is not far off base, when he talks about seizing the means of production,” former White House spokesman (under former President George W. Bush) Pete Seat said. “That is a Communist Party plank. He is talking about doing that. So I don’t have any problems with calling him what he is.”

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“And I don’t have any problem calling Donald Trump a felon,” Sellers replied. “Or charged with rape. Or the fact that he doesn’t pay his vendors. Or the fact that he’s racist because he got — he illegally [unintelligible] … and you’re right, you may have a Democratic socialist elected as mayor of New York City.”

“So you agree with Pete that he’s a communist?” Jennings asked.

“He’s not a communist,” one of the other panelists said off-camera.

“He’s a socialist,” Bakari said.

“He said ‘seize the means of production,'” Jennings said.

His voice rising a few pitches, Sellers repeated, “He’s a socialist! I’m not a socialist, but he calls himself —”

“He literally uses — he’s using the language of the Bolsheviks, is he not?” Jennings asked.

“No, he’s not,” Sellers tried again. “He’s a socialist, not a communist.”

“Seizing the means of production?” Jennings raised an eyebrow.

“That’s called socialism,” Sellers said. “Not communism.”

Phillip cut in then, bringing the debate to a close.

All evidence to the contrary, Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he is not a communist, but rather a “democratic socialist.”

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