Replying to @vdt
  • darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 days ago

    I have just discovered:

    (1) racist backlash to video of Mamdani eating rice with his hands

    (2) he highlighted USAID involvement in Cuba destablisation

    Given (1) has clearly proven he is a man of the highest of cultures I give him my seal of approval.

    • Spectre@lemmy.mlOP
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      4 days ago

      (2) he highlighted USAID involvement in Cuba destablisation

      Do you have the source on this?

          • darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
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            3 days ago

            Nah just the tweet.

            He explicitly says he is not a communist. “Democratic socialists” are just effectively socdems no matter how much they say they don’t like capitalism or the billionaires (you could argue the focus on the billionaire over capital, and with that the lack of dissection of the reactionary masses that make up Americans, is in itself not scientific socialism - though I am not necessarily saying Mamdani is doing this currently). He sounds significantly better than a lot of american politicians but that’s because the bar is set so low. Unless marxist-leninsts take oppurtunity, for example using Mamdani’s political campaign (or even without), to organise both over and underground then this will amount to not much. Waiting for his campaign to bleed over to ML is a lost cause and idealism.

            Doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the spectacle of the backlash.

            (As a thought exercise consider if he becomes wildly successful FDR-style and his local movement becomes national and eradicates poverty in the US; will this then help destroy American global hegemony or help further cement it? Why scandinavian countries despite having the some of the best HDI not a threat to imperialism? Why are concessions to workers in the imperial core not a threat to global south superexploitation?)

            https://redsails.org/concessions/

  • Comrade_Cat@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’m not hoping for anything other than marginally increasing class consciousness in a handful of people. Electoralism won’t accomplish anything, but if he can shift the Overton Window just a smidge to make Socialism be a bit less scary to some people while at the same time showing how the “lesser evil” democrats will fucking annihilate anything to the left of Bush Jr. then he’ll have done his job.

    I just hope that leftist groups in the US, particularly New York, see this as an opportunity to stuff some actual theory down the gullets of all the baby birdies lined up gawking at Zohran and what the democrats are gonna do to him between now and November.

  • She Was Speaking@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 days ago

    If nothing else, I think Mamdani getting so many Democrats to line up to commit political suicide is funny. I’ve seen even the most annoying white liberals getting pissed at Hakeem Jeffries & others for their constant, bad faith attacks on Mamdani on Bluesky. Shit’s wild.