piefed.zeromedia.vipZohran Mamdani wins: what’s next in the fight against the billionaires?
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I 100% understand why the author wouldn’t put their name on that article…
It’s shit tier writing that doesn’t understand anything it’s talking about, except that Mamdani is popular and won…
All of this confirms what the Revolutionary Communist International has been saying since Trump’s reelection last year: the US working class has not “shifted to the right” in any fundamental sense. Rather, the crisis of American capitalism, and above all the crisis of the US economy, is pushing workers towards anti-establishment politicians willing to take on the status quo.
For decades the problem has been that neoliberals moved to the right “fiscally” which caused republicans to go full maga to differentiate.
Republicans lost a few votes, but neoliberals lose even more to people who can’t hold their nose.
And of all places, I’d expect a site called “communist.red” to acknowledge that nothing Mamdani wants would be considered anything except middle of the road common sense policy in any other first world country.
Dem voters stayed where we’ve always been, it’s the party that was out wandering for a couple decade.
It’s really as easy as running pro-worker candidates again.
Torches and pitchforks?
They aren’t vampires and I doubt NYC maps well to Transylvania or Wallachia.
Maybe something a bit more French?
More candidates like him are needed all over the place, from mayors to congresspeople. He proved that Americans want policy-focused progressivism, on the things that have been broken in this country for far too long.
Mamdani himself may not have the power to implement any national policy, but the race was so national I believe it showed people what is possible.
He won’t do anything, he’s the mayor. He will do mayoral stuff… that’s his job. Which is why this win, while oddly publicized, won’t do much.
Quite a distraction this has made.
That’s the funny thing about local elections. They shift the needle at the local level. Getting into every little aspect of local politics has been the Conservative playbook for decades. So, yeah, it’s actually a big deal. Mamdani’s win shows us that billionaires can bring all the money they want, but apes strong together. We can turn this tide if we stick together, get involved, and not get distracted by counterintelligence efforts.
And despite purity test efforts of some trolls, people were able to see past the bullshit.
He did not have much competition
I mean, he basically had both parties, the president, all the billionaires, and the whole media apparatus working against him, and yet he proved that people like policy-focused progressives, getting more votes than any nyc mayor in like 20 years or something like that (I forget the actual number)
I’d say that was pretty good competition
I doubt someone else would have won. His campaign was truly unique.