Mind you, I’m biased since I’m not from the US, I’m Balkan. So a quick heads up there. Plus I’m a hardline commie so yeah. Just did some research on this because It caught my eye.

I haven’t really noticed this here or at Lemmygrad. But a lot of online “leftist” spaces, especially on Reddit, are over hyping this shit too much lmao.

Zohran so far:

This circlejerk about a social democrat getting elected is doing my head in, people are acting like the October revolution happened.

Just don’t act surprised when magically not much actual change happens in New York. Also don’t give me “Oh but the pipeline!!!1!”. Yeah If the pipeline actually worked, Bernie and AOC supporters would have been actual marxists by now (Also as a Serb, fuck Bernie, Parenti was right about your dumbass).

I have a pet peeve with American “anti-capitalists” in general. Where they constantly just whine how everything is expensive, no public transport and no free healthcare. Yet they’d probably be fine with the world suffering as long as they got those three things + whatever treats they want.

Don’t forget to join a good org nearby you, read and organize folks!

  • the rizzler@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    15 days ago

    i’m not convinced social democracy does all that. i mean, have swedish communist parties made significant gains recently? in america, there’s a good case to be made that fdr saved capitalism. im not convinced there’s anything to be won with mamdani

    • KnilAdlez [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      81·
      15 days ago

      I never said it did, I said it opened the door. It is only opportunity, and it must be seized. The ball rolls slowly now, but it will pick up speed exponentially.

      In america, there’s a good case to be made that fdr saved capitalism

      I’ll admit I haven’t done a ton of reading on this particular topic, but as much as you can argue the New deal eased class tensions in America I’m sure you can argue that it was a failure of the American communists to take advantage of the concessions to foment further labor militancy.

      • the rizzler@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        8·
        15 days ago

        it was a failure of the American communists to take advantage of the concessions to foment further labor militancy.

        this is a good point. how can new york communists take advantage of the mamdani win to agitate? i would imagine communists elsewhere in the usa can look to mamdani and say “we can make that happen here” but what happens after that?

        • KnilAdlez [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          31·
          15 days ago

          There are better people to ask than me, I’m sure, but I would say the next step is community outreach + education. Get people used to the idea of publicly being communist and explain what it is. Get people to understand that even under electoralism, politics does not stop once they leave the voting booth.