Zohran Maoist arc in 2026 challenge
"Bad landlords" pre-supposes that there's such thing as a "good landlord." Anyways, long live Comrade Zohran, great follower of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought!
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Chairmain Mao specifically accounted for good landlords. If you were a good landlord, your former tenants simply wouldn't shoot you in the head!
In all seriousness, total land reform wasn't what the cpc originally wanted. They sought moderate reforms in line with China developing capitalist productive forces. They sought to remove only abusive, reactionary landlords, but this meant peasants could only get land reform by accusing their landlords of being abusive reactionaries. The communist intelligentsia was unable to stifle the revolutionary peasant movement, and land reform took place at their pace.
but this meant peasants could only get land reform by accusing their landlords of being abusive reactionaries
Somehow I doubt they peasants had to lie about that very often, lol.
Nobody is saying you can’t go there and say exactly that 👁️👁️
okay I said I'd never go to a protest but I think it'd be really funny to sit outside these with a giant guillotine and a sign labelling it "solution for bad landlords"
I said I'd never go to a protest
Why?
Because no protest in the history of protest has achieved anything in the absence of the threat of armed violence and I'm not about to waste my time AND be savaged by the police for literally nothing, and no, "what are you doing then?" isn't a good defense of protesting
that's not a protest, it's support
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
More and more people are saying this
The OG struggle sessions invoked community justice. They did with the landlords what the community willed, particularly those who had previously been forced to serve them.
What will happen as a result of community vent sessions on "bad landlords"?
What will happen as a result of community vent sessions on "bad landlords"?
you kinda gotta get people together in a room talking about how shitty their landlords are if you want to get them to realize 1) they can do something 2) they should do something 3) they can organize to do that thing
I don't think the landlords will be dealt with appropriately, but I think when you have the infrastructure to simply imprison them that's much better than having them tortured or killed. It's not really the best application of democratic principles to have what happens to a convicted person be decided by a group of their victims rather than have society broadly agree on standard procedures.
Obviously in Mao's case with the land reform, he did not have such luxuries and relied on the victims of the landlords and other locals not because of some sort of moralizing logic but because managing such an overwhelmingly large project with frequently no infrastructure to facilitate coordination beyond dirt roads is unwieldy unless you just leave it up to the peasants to basically do as they will.
If we imagined that Zohran was a Marxist and had control of the police, the thing to do certainly involves mass arrests of landlords. This action is useful regardless because it's not just about the landlords who get criticized (though them having their reputation publicly destroyed is a plus), but about using these stories as the basis for getting support for policies to prevent many common abuses and broadcasting quite loudly how past administrations allowed them to get away with such things and never bothered to ask people to publicly share their experiences like we see here, and how administrations in other cities are continuing to ignore such problems.
Ziohran Mossadani is bootlicking slime who does apologia for cops, but I think we should regard this campaign as potentially a good thing, though of course it depends on how Zohran and company actually administrates the campaign, since he certainly has shown himself as ready to squander potential for careerist reasons.
If we imagined that Zohran was a Marxist and had control of the police, the thing to do certainly involves mass arrests of landlords. This action is useful regardless because it's not just about the landlords who get criticized (though them having their reputation publicly destroyed is a plus), but about using these stories as the basis for getting support for policies to prevent many common abuses and broadcasting quite loudly how past administrations allowed them to get away with such things and never bothered to ask people to publicly share their experiences like we see here, and how administrations in other cities are continuing to ignore such problems.
that "and" is very important. He'd need to do some serious purging to actually have control of the NYPD
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Luigi?
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Peoples' Tribunals 
He was inside a slum on his first day as mayor, documenting the issues, and met with a tenant council. Politically I disagree with some of his positions of course, but he does really seem to care about especially the issue of rent and bad landlords. And its easy points to score with your constituents, no one likes their landlord.
I am also excited that the DSA-NYC is still pushing for stuff, they are trying to have a huge rally in Albany in a couple weeks to push for funding the Zohr-genda (taxing the rich)
This is me. I absolutely know better. I didn't fall for it. I'm perfectly willing to drink the disappointment when he wants an Israel tax or something. But God strike me down if this isn't neat.
I should probably just block this comm lol
I only see complaints about him on here but tbh he is approximately 1000% better and cooler than my current "liberal" mayor, for the public bathroom funding initiative alone.
liberals buried the bar in hell
"
for the lesser evil"
Yeah he's had missteps but if every US politician was like Zohran we'd be in a much, much better place
good god, just offering a publicly supported platform for tenants to come together with grievances against landlords in the borough is some real shit.
i bet the vibe will be electric.
some real "We are the rhydo, kid. We're the fuel. We're the thing that explodes when there is too much friction in the air."
you can't always get what you want
but if you try sometimes
you'll find
you get what you need
Mao’s policy notably only targeted “bad landlords”
That's actually pretty accurate, and it wasn't so much "Mao's policy" as just what wound up happening as a result of peasant outrage mixed with suddenly being given agency and an ideological push to redress their personal grievances. It was as I understand limited specifically to the rural landlords who lived in or near their the villages their victims did, the people who'd most directly committed crimes against their tenants, while absentee landlords who lived in cities far from their estates were spared and often given deals where they willingly gave up their claims to their former lands in exchange for party membership and jobs as bureaucrats on account of the CPC of the early 50s being that desperate for literate workers that they made a lot of "oh, you can read? If you'll take this desk job doing paperwork and make a gesture of good faith by voluntarily giving up your capital and land, we're ready to forgive a whole lot of stuff you may or may not have done" concessions.
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Has he apologized for his tweet in sympathy for the cops that killed that guy having a mental episode in his own home, in front of his parents?
you have the right to be shot in front of a home you can afford!
he's not perfect but he's definitely laying an interesting pathway to follow
the liberal trump (or anti-trump, or dare i say socdem trump) finally comes along and can't even be president (or can he?)
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the manhattan event better be in central park
The only kind of hearings I want are "speak bitterness" hearings, also known as the original struggle sessions. 
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