WASHINGTON, D.C. - Amid criticism over her Green New Deal plan, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained Monday that a copy of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels uploaded to her website coinciding with the announcement of the plan was put up "by mistake."

"We had a few documents floating around when we were discussing the Green New Deal, and an intern inadvertently uploaded the entire text of The Communist Manifesto," Ocasio-Cortez explained on her Twitter account. "Rest assured that full-blown communism is not the end goal of this Green New Deal. What's in the actual bill we submitted is what people should be focusing on."

The congresswoman also accused conservatives of "pouncing" on her after they quickly expressed their alarm over the upload of the d

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