Talked to somebody who was there and she said it was an spontaneous response that was angry.
Rather a typical political rally supporters at which supporters just boo the capacity crowd there of 13,000 people knew very distinctly that the Governor held the power to sign off on Mamdani’s platform to do so.
In that sense things in NYC are proceeding in a way not seen in a very long time. In other words the argument Occupy Wall St was making in 2011, that the 1% own the country and its elections, seems now to be becoming even more mainstream in the philosophy of the proles.
It’s easy to be cynical now, and there’s things to be concerned in this campaign. It’s not gonna be perfect. But man, you really do feel like something is afoot around these parts.
I think there’s huge upside in this election. Beyond the powerful symbolism of a Socialist being elected in the Financial Capitol of the World the potential of the success of real material transformation in people’s lives can and will reverberate around the world.
People ain’t playing anymore.
Everybody arguing about if mamdani is based or cringe is missing the whole point. His success is a manifestation of a working class becoming aware of itself. Regardless of if he’s gonna press the communism button or be the most racist cop in NYPD’a history, the people are ready for socialism.
I just hope the enthusiasm isn’t cooped by entryist bullshit, which it likely will be.
Like, I really hope Zohran is hiding his power levels, but the likelihood is that he turns his back on the left as a succdem is wont to do.
That’s up to us
This is how I’ve been feeling about it, younger people are looking for a better alternative that gives them hope for the future and older folks are looking for someone to actually fight the fascist administration.
The masses are ready for an idealogical shift and any tool that can shift that is something we should use.
It’s going to be cringy as hell from an anti-imperialist standpoint, but America going full Democratic socialist and redirecting resources from the military to social program would offer a lot of reprieve to the global south.
Imperialism is what creates the superprofits. Most likely thing to happen is that people realize not being the world superpower means not having as high a quality of life, so the superimperialism stays.
All the spending on good social programs and public infrastructure in the US is coming directly from the labor of people in the global south. Who most of the socialist politicians in the US won’t even mention or give the time of day.
China is not a global imperialist power. Does the average American have a higher quality of life than the average Chinese?
I think Americans “on average” absolutely have a higher quality of life right now. And China’s rise has involved siding with the US and getting US investment, so they’ve definitely benefitted from imperialism. That was basically the deal they made with the US, to abandon the global anti-imperialist struggle.
That’s an incredibly broad brush to paint with. Is every country imperialist except North Korea, Eritrea, Cuba, Myanmar, and maybe a few others, for participating in the WTO and receiving American FDI?
Ultimately my point is that you don’t need extracted profits from alienated labor overseas in order to be prosperous.
No yeah, none of the socdems are going to reverse the process, though. If they pull back military resources, they’re never getting that foothold back if they change their mind about it.