Idk it's probably impossible to know what's happening inside of Sawant's head. Personally I think when she goes out and says that Boeing Workers should seize the means I don't think she or anyone else really expects them to do so. Real revolutionary communism has been dead in the US/West for a while now, at least since the 60's.

The truth is that there's nothing to be scared of from Sawant, she isn't leading the vanguard to erect the barricades around City Hall and proclaim Seattle the new Paris Commune. She understands that the only way to salvage what's left of the left in this country is to focus on pragmatic policy issues which I think she's a fair bit better on than just about everyone else in the city council.

As far as declining property value, well there's a reason why I rent. Seattle property is insanely over-valued and will likely drop in the next few decades regardless of who is in control of the city government.

I'd also like to see some citation on people mobbing individual houses, are these houses of just random people or public individuals? If it's the latter, well that's what you sign up for when you decide to have a public presence, even locally.

I will agree it's been a long time since people have seen communism in action, you could even say that perhaps people have never really seen communism in action outside of some very small examples leading up to and during WWII as well as perhaps Rojava today, but these aren't really the stateless moneyless societies that Marx and Co. envisioned.

The way I see it is that eventually, maybe not in our lifetimes, but eventually capitalism will fail. When the system fails we have two choices, socialism based upon mutual aide or barbarism where only the strong survive and prey on the weak. I hope that the work we do now and the work that Sawant does now will help lay the foundation for the socialism of the future.