dylan_g [none/use name]

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Cake day: February 25th, 2025

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  • I think the holes in Mamdani’s socialism and potential are discussed enough here, and the broader popular perception is of course not a marxist analysis of his campaign. So I won’t rehash either, but I do hope to make clear what I think is often missing in online discourse, which is the potential it has for comrades organizing in the US.

    Conditions are different from AOC’s start, and the political ramifications are less about the position and more about popular perceptions. Back then the zeitgeist was “Trump Bad”, liberal Dems enjoyed a big swing off of Trumps first term. But it was a swing and a miss: since then dems had a senile Biden, a flop Kamala, a genocide, nothing to show and fumbled things back to Trump and the right-wing, then said “time to fight” but steadily handing them project 2025 objectives. Add to that many Trump voters are disillusioned seeing jobs and the economy sink, the few safety nets many rely on - or may soon need - getting scrapped for cash by billionaires. I know plenty Trump voters who have completely flipped and are beginning to sound like stronger socialists in rhetoric than Mamdani’s fans without realizing it.

    People who have voted dem their whole lives are disillusioned, people who voted with Trump are disillusioned, both sides have incredibly low approval and a spotlight has been cast on a socialist who beat establishment Dems and Republicans united against him.

    In effect Mamdani caught the public eye at a critical moment and expanded the perception of socialism and socialist candidates along with their potential to be viable and win. Now people will go looking for this in their localities as @jack mentioned his firsthand experience.

    Instead of that energy being directed toward similarly fraught reformism (as an ends) - they can instead be shown the power and potential of principled revolutionary organization and strategy, and we can potentially gain many new cadre. Of course this window of opportunity is clearly attached to Mamdani, and can fall if he falls and it’s our duty to use this opportunity while it’s available to the best of our ability. The tactics look different as well if you’re in NYC, a progressive metro area, or a rural town. But nonetheless the popularity of the situation and discussion provide an opportunity for comrades across the country.










  • Yeah for any comrades in the US reading this, now is the time to be full swing organizing all the anti-genocide / anti war protestors, immigration defense, healthcare/education workers, medicare recipients, no kings attendees, unions, churches, civil groups, community leaders, etc in preparation for this scenario. There’s real momentum now for a general strike, Chicago’s mayor is taking interviews left and right to push one, and Dems are keen to co-opt but most importantly - seeing the same rapid decline in support and confidence that the Republicans are.

    The opportunity arising can’t be understated: millions may go hungry and desperate, the economic and social impacts will spread rapidly and be widely apparent. Things will heat up rapidly with already historically low confidence in the system and a steady flow of stark contradictions like MILEI’s $40b, Israel’s Genocide, a war drive in South America, etc. When the heat rises, it’ll come down to how well comrades have prepared to give that energy unity and direction toward an alternative that folks see - not only as an idea in someone’s head - but the only just / viable path forward already being paved.