Mind you, I’m biased since I’m not from the US, I’m Balkan. So a quick heads up there. Plus I’m a hardline commie so yeah. Just did some research on this because It caught my eye.

I haven’t really noticed this here or at Lemmygrad. But a lot of online “leftist” spaces, especially on Reddit, are over hyping this shit too much lmao.

Zohran so far:

This circlejerk about a social democrat getting elected is doing my head in, people are acting like the October revolution happened.

Just don’t act surprised when magically not much actual change happens in New York. Also don’t give me “Oh but the pipeline!!!1!”. Yeah If the pipeline actually worked, Bernie and AOC supporters would have been actual marxists by now (Also as a Serb, fuck Bernie, Parenti was right about your dumbass).

I have a pet peeve with American “anti-capitalists” in general. Where they constantly just whine how everything is expensive, no public transport and no free healthcare. Yet they’d probably be fine with the world suffering as long as they got those three things + whatever treats they want.

Don’t forget to join a good org nearby you, read and organize folks!

  • Chana [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Oh yes and that’s because it’s what bourgeois media will push. They will try to make him own every problem in New York, real or fictional, regardless of what he does, and will apply every label, and will try to get him killed.

    So the only variable here is how the political formation operates in response to this, and it seems that this would be an exaggerative term for the Mamdani campaign, as it appears to just be a bourgeois electoral campaign leveraging the free labor of lefties, no strings attached. The formation is just this one dude and every question therefore becomes whether he, personally, can strategize against and withstand the machine as it operates against him. No longer just with PR, but with cops and capital strikes and bureaucratic undermining. He’d need to be ready to finger point ad nauseum and have the political cache to make this actually work. He’d need to have the ability to actually mobilize large quantities of people to push popular, material policies through.

    And again it is just one dude that has always come across as slick and practiced and personally ambitious, not particularly principled. It is the opposite of a socialist formation.