While IDK if Mamdani is a true leftist. Remember that historically many of leftism’s figures are nepo babies that reject their privilege and betray their class.
Lenin is a perfect example. His whole point of a vanguard is for mutual education, while he organizes and educates the masses on socialism, him and others like him are then educated on the struggles of the proletariat and their conditions.
Yeah I thought of Lenin, Castro too. I hadn’t really looked anything up about the guy so I was under the assumption he might be an AOC character where she billed herself as a working class waitress but seemed to have some fishy CIA-adjacent background or something, but that seems to not be the case
While IDK if Mamdani is a true leftist. Remember that historically many of leftism’s figures are nepo babies that reject their privilege and betray their class.
Lenin is a perfect example. His whole point of a vanguard is for mutual education, while he organizes and educates the masses on socialism, him and others like him are then educated on the struggles of the proletariat and their conditions.
Yeah I thought of Lenin, Castro too. I hadn’t really looked anything up about the guy so I was under the assumption he might be an AOC character where she billed herself as a working class waitress but seemed to have some fishy CIA-adjacent background or something, but that seems to not be the case