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!

  • LetzterTod@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    14 days ago

    For many people Mamdani seems like October revolution because in all honesty American society is heavily insulated. They’re the empire but they act like they’re the victims of the system on equal footing as Sudanese, Palestinians, and Congolese. American society is a society of settlers and their mind works like this, once I get my treats I will move on to next step, when in truth concessions only happen when bourgeoisie of a society are truly threatened so even for concessions an unconditional solidarity with the most oppressed of the world is required. There’s a difference between how black panthers achieved goals of providing healthcare and food and how a lot of white leftists seek to achieve them, black panthers knew that the system that excludes them will never truly include all of their community so they themselves opened clinics and breakfast programmes for their communities but white leftists try to make the system give them the crumbs in exchange for selling out the most oppressed people.