Are Zohran Mamdani really a communist as Donald Trump claims or are they like the mysterious Godot character in the play Waiting for Godot who Vladimir and Estragon wait for but never comes and no one knows anything about
Zohran Mamdani calls themselves a democratic socialist which is very different from the social democrats of Europe in the past who were either reformed or confused Their supporters might have been happy if they were just socialists with Mamdani traits similar to some Chinese citizens who partially accept the Chinese style socialism that Donald Trump exaggerates
To understand which description suits Zohran Mamdani we need to look back first it is clear they are not the ghost that Karl Marx scared European colonial capitalists with in 1848 The revolutionary idea of equality scared Europe but things did not happen as Marx imagined
Instead of a workers revolution the rich and powerful the bourgeoisie resisted strongly and their reaction still influences the world almost two centuries after the Communist Manifesto was published
Leaders like Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Francisco Franco Stepan Bandera M S Golwalkar Joseph McCarthy Ayub Khan Augusto Pinochet Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher and Zia-ul-Haq are examples of how anti-communism was used to fight what was often called the exaggerated or imagined communist threat
The bourgeoisie created religious and cultural structures to slow down or stop the communist ghost of equality and to break unity among common people Systems like Nazism fascism the Ku Klux Klan and racism emerged for this purpose
In South Asia they used strong religious attachments to frame communist beliefs as if they had no connection with God or religion but they only partly succeeded
The communist movement did not grow in Western Europe as Marx predicted but it appeared in unexpected places like Russia China Vietnam Cuba and some other countries but it was not always lasting The 1957 Kerala experience is important in the context of Zohran Mamdani where a communist government was elected in a bourgeois state
Sometimes the bourgeoisie who try to block communism create problems for themselves like Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s novel who created a monster while trying to reach his goal Similarly leaders like Narendra Modi or Donald Trump rise to power creating challenges
If Zohran Mamdani was able to overcome major challenges to become mayor part of their success can be attributed to confusion among right-wing politicians The wave of anti-Netanyahu sentiment weakened the influence of his Zionist opponents making it easier for Mamdani to succeed
The importance of Charlie Kirk’s killing is not fully understood It shook the American right and affected Israel-US relations These groups were political opponents of Zohran Mamdani
Charlie Kirk’s murder started a chain of events that stopped violence in Gaza and also caused reactions in the MAGA circles This reaction helped Mamdani’s campaign and strengthened establishment-backed Democratic candidates against Trump-supported candidates in other states
The sniper shot that killed Charlie Kirk also harmed Zionist groups like AIPAC Many American presidents have shown some inclination in front of them The investigation by anti-Zionist Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal showed how terrified Benjamin Netanyahu was after Charlie Kirk’s murder
Usually after an event Netanyahu appears immediately on TV but not this time He did not appear to comment publicly on Charlie Kirk’s death quickly
Charlie Kirk was a supporter of Israel but becoming a critic Netanyahu held a press conference to offer condolences His public sadness suggested he wanted to deny rumors of Israeli involvement
The killing of Palestinian women and children forced people in the MAGA movement to question what they were supporting Charlie Kirk became a strong voice He played a key role in Donald Trump’s 2024 election strategy and used his influence to pressure the US to limit Netanyahu’s unlimited support for Israel
His death days before his 32nd birthday affected Andrew Cuomo’s politics and helped New York Jews distinguish between Zionist and anti-Zionist groups This created a middle path that increased support for Zohran Mamdani
Sometimes left and right have worked together in history even if unintentionally Examples include overthrowing the Shah of Iran and later removing Indira Gandhi
It is also true that today the left does not have the same appeal it once did There was a time when Nikita Khrushchev could imagine friendship with John F Kennedy especially when both saved the world from the Cuban Missile Crisis and later avoided nuclear destruction Kennedy criticized communist influence and Israeli influence in US politics and was eventually assassinated
Zohran Mamdani was born in October 1991 the same year the Soviet Union ended Their parents may have told them how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War led to a new term democracy with free markets
At that time the SPAN magazine published in Delhi by the US Embassy shrank officially to save paper but in reality propaganda was already effective
Propaganda agencies performed very well as promised The writer and his brother memorized JFK’s classic inaugural speech distributed in thin records through the US Library in Lucknow
In Samuel Beckett’s play Godot is deliberately left ambiguous as a symbol of hope purpose or higher power and the audience decides what Godot is This could be an acceptable way to describe the phenomenon called Zohran Mamdani