#understandmamdani — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #understandmamdani, aggregated by home.social.
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Work in Progress: How we're tackling Sidewalk Sheds (with John Wilson)
#MayorMamdani introduces an unexpected aspect of his approach to urban governance: #ScaffoldSocialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohRn36CWhs
(and for those of you unfamiliar with John Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilson_%28filmmaker%29?wprov=sfla1 )
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Smile: Municipal Grin
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I Ran The Military's Grocery Stores. Our Prices Are 25% Cheaper.
What #MayorMamdani Can Learn From The US Military
The question is not Can the government run grocery stores?. They do. The question is Who's going to make this happen and who's going to stand in their way?
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Mayor Mamdani Makes a Child Care Announcement with Chancellor Samuels
Never let it be said that #MayorMamdani is unwilling to share the spotlight...today, with New York's Cutest, announcer ng a new RFI
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When we evaluate a new mayor, we are usually taught to separate “style” from “substance,” and to treat visibility, symbolism, and public presence as distractions from the real work of governing. That distinction feels natural—but it is also historically specific, and it may no longer describe how political legitimacy actually forms in a society marked by institutional distrust, media saturation, and social fragmentation.
One way to read the article below is as a familiar early-tenure assessment: is #ZohranMamdani still performing like a candidate, or has he begun governing “for real”? But there is another way to read it—one that does not assume that governing happens only behind closed doors, or that public presence is merely theatrical. From this perspective, visibility, explanation, and embodied action are not substitutes for governance; they are among the conditions that make governance intelligible and credible in the first place.
Mamdani’s early actions—showing up at tenant buildings, explaining the budget directly to the public, appearing in moments of crisis rather than delegating them entirely—can be read not as campaign leftovers, but as an attempt to close the widening gap between political authority and lived experience. In a political culture where institutions often feel distant, opaque, or unresponsive, governing “in public” may be less a performance than a way of rebuilding trust through shared orientation and presence.
The article that follows can still be read critically, and it raises real questions about budgets, appointments, and limits of executive power. But it may also be read as documenting a deeper tension: between an older model of politics that treats legitimacy as something institutions possess and dispense, and an emerging model that treats legitimacy as something that must be continually enacted, explained, and sustained in full view of the people it claims to serve.
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Opinion: Millionaires must pay their fair share to ensure NYC’s affordability
By John Liu and Phara Souffrant Forrest
the Fair Share Act, legislation we introduced... would authorize New York City to enact a modest 2% surcharge on incomes over $1 million.
It’s entirely fair and appropriate to ask the highest income earners, who just received a permanent 2.6% tax cut courtesy of President Donald Trump, to help generate the revenue needed to strengthen our economy and not leave working New Yorkers behind. This is, quite literally, a matter of fairness and fiscal responsibility.
As it stands, raising taxes on NYC millionaires must happen at the state level.
Governor Kathy Hochul doesn't want to raise taxes on millionaires. Fair enough. But the state legislature should authorize NYC to do so. #MayorMamdani has given them ample warning.
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Democratic Socialism as Public Action
Municipal Politics as Praxis
Over the past year, many of us supported Zohran Mamdani because we believed he represented more than a set of policy positions. He seemed to be pointing toward a different way of doing politics—one grounded in participation, visibility, moral clarity, and a refusal to accept the quiet shrinking of public life as inevitable. Now that he is mayor, the question has necessarily changed. The campaign is over. The work of governing has begun. What does democratic socialism look like in practice, once slogans give way to decisions, institutions, and constraints?
That is why this article is worth reading carefully. Not because it praises Mamdani, and not because it claims everything is going smoothly, but because it treats his first weeks in office as a serious political experiment—one with real stakes, real resistance, and real limits. It asks what it means for socialism to become legible as governance, rather than remaining a posture of opposition or a set of ideals waiting for perfect conditions.
One of the most important themes running through the piece is the distinction between policies that merely deliver benefits and politics that actively reshape how people understand their relationship to government and to one another. There is a difference between public goods that are quietly administered and public goods that are openly claimed, explained, and defended as collective achievements. The article suggests—rightly, I think—that socialism succeeds or fails not only on outcomes, but on whether it makes public power visible, accountable, and shared, rather than hidden behind technocratic language or market logic.
The essay also pushes back against two familiar temptations on the left. One is the belief that compromise automatically equals betrayal. The other is the idea that working through institutions is inherently corrupting. What Mamdani’s early moves illustrate is something more demanding: governing as an ongoing process of judgment, direction, and repair. Not purity, but coherence. Not spectacle, but capacity. Not withdrawal from conflict, but a willingness to name what is at stake and act accordingly.
If you are interested in how socialism might be pursued in a way that is serious about power, administration, and democratic legitimacy—without losing its moral imagination—this article repays attention. It does not offer a blueprint. What it offers instead is a way of seeing what is unfolding, and of asking better questions about what must come next.
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Mamdani and Sanders Join Picket as N.Y.C. Nurses’ Strike Enters 2nd Week
Here’s what to know about the walkout by about 15,000 New York nurses. On Tuesday, Mayor #ZohranMamdani and Senator Bernie Sanders lent their support.
Mr. Mamdani framed the strike as part of his administration’s focus on affordability. For nurses, the walkout is about making sure “that this is a city you don’t just work in but a city that you can also live in.”
#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdanihttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/nyregion/what-to-know-nyc-nurses-strike.html
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#ZohranMamdani Has Quickly Gotten Down to Business
If Mamdani succeeds, he will do more than improve working-class New Yorkers’ circumstances. He will lay to rest the axiomatic American belief that efficiency and innovation belong to the private sector and the governments most deferential to it.
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#MayorMamdanihttps://jacobin.com/2026/01/mamdani-executive-orders-housing-childcare
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Mamdani’s first 10 days: getting things done despite right’s dystopian fantasies
The New York mayor’s popular moves on rent and free childcare defied rightwing predictions of a far-left hellscape
#ZohranMamdani has eschewed turning the city into the forewarned dystopian nightmare in favor of making progress on campaign promises like housing and rent, while also conducting minor municipal repairs.
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#UnderstandMamdanihttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/10/zohran-mamdani-new-york-10-days
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Exit Stage Left: On Movements, Mayors, and the Musical Logic of Insurgent Politics
if the movement cannot release its electeds into autonomy, the entire strategy collapses into a kind of ideological helicopter parenting.
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Why Focusing on the Democrats Misses a Meaningful Lesson From Mamdani’s Win
This video was posted shortly after #MamdaniForMayorNYC's primary win...so the fact that I'm linking to it now that #ZohranMamdani is preparing to take office as Democratic #MayorMamdani can be taken to be something of a provocation -- especially in light of recent news about his meetings and appointments.
But I think it is more important than ever that we understand what Stoermer is saying here as we try to #UnderstandMamdani and his wider political significance. -
This City Belongs to You.
On January 1st I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City...and that is because of you!
You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension we can usher in a new era of leadership.
New York, this power: it's yours. This city belongs to you.
Thank you!#MayorMamdani
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Trump voters for Mamdani and a new left coalition: the biggest surprises from New York’s election
An interview with Michael Lange
He built the coalition that the left always wanted to build: it’s multiracial, it’s young, it’s renters and it’s people squeezed by affordability. He improved considerably with Black and Hispanic voters, working- and middle-class voters, compared to the primary. Plus he further maximized his base of liberal progressives, young leftists, and Muslims and south Asians. He couldn’t have won without making those significant inroads.
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Turnout was significantly higher than I had expected. I thought we might go over 2 million, but it’s closer to 2.3 million – that is a lot of darn voters. There was a decent anti-Mamdani block, who were motivated, but the Mamdani base was also motivated, and that was enough to win.
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every city in America can have their own commie corridor. Urban places are the epicenters of leftwing power in America – because they’re young, people rent and they are places where people are crushed by the inequalities we face.#MayorMamdani
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Zohran Mamdani: “Hope Is Alive”
Jacobin magazine has published the full text of #MamdaniForMayorNYC's acceptance speech:
...while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.
This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.
Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://jacobin.com/2025/11/zohran-mamdani-election-victory-speech
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We may be heading for a new era in New York City!
Buckle up, New Yorkers!
Look out, World!
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I'm guessing these figures don't reflect a sudden upsurge in Cuomo's (or Sliwa's) popularity...
but we'll know soon enough!#MayorMamdani
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Trump THREATENS NYC Voters Over Zohran
We have had months, now, to observe how difficult (one could say bewildering) a time the most established, most traditional members of the Democratic party have had in responding to the phenomenon of #MamdaniForMayorNYC
Now that he shows every sign of becoming #MayorMamdani it is becoming increasingly evident that the Republican party (and, especially, Donald Trump) fails even more spectacularly to #UnderstandMamdani
Sing along with me, everyone:
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Back on Fordham Road
One year ago, when nobody knew who #ZohranMamdani was, he wernt to Fordham Road in the Bronx to talk to people about who they voted for and their reasons for voting (or not voting).
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Will Zohran Pull This Off For Working Class New Yorkers?
For the deet-oriented, this in-the-weeds discussion of traditional Democratic posturing, New York State politics, demographics, Democratic Socialists of America, etc... between Francesca Fiorentini (aforementioned bitchuationist) and Hell Gate reporter Christopher Robbins is worth viewing (or, you know, listerning to)
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Speaks to Media After Voting
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://www.youtube.com/live/cRdHx8yEoHw?si=ea7IZ4_9fqqIJ2yg&t=1347
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Today is only the beginning.
Barring extraordinary turns of events #MamdaniForMayorNYC will be #MayorMamdani next year. This micro-documentary looks both back on his campaign and forward to governance.
BONUS FEATURE: At the 3:12 mark my committed, indefatigable and charming wife can be spotted ( blink-and-you'll-miss-it ) marching among many others off the Brooklyn Bridge.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
This is a brilliant, eve-of-election-day riposte to the accumulated awfulness of (especially) late-campaign Cuomo.
It exhibits a style which hints at the substance of governance #MamdaniForMayorNYC will bring to the mayoralty.
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Hell Gate -- Mayoral Spew:
Here We Goooooooooooo!
Election Day is almost upon us, Zohran is in the clubs, and his supporters are planning a permanent campaign to advance his agenda in office.
THE LEFT IS THINKING ABOUT 'THE DAY AFTER TUESDAY'
According to Alicia Singham Goodwin, the political director of JFREJ, a big part of the left's role will be putting a spotlight on the forces that are trying to thwart Mamdani's agenda.
"We will have to learn how to really dig deep to identify our targets. Who is actually blocking progress? It's easy when that's someone in elected office. We know where to find them. But now that we'll be the ones in office, there's going to be big business, billionaires, and others who actually have a lot more power than politicians," Goodwin said. "So if we don't know their names already, we need to find them out and subvert the power they have in New York."
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Without the night shift, there is no morning.
#ZohranMamdani visits night-shift taxi drivers.
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Live from New York…I got roasted by Ramy Youssef
I get the feeling Ramy Youssef may have secured himself a recurring role...
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"Our Time Is Now": Zohran Mamdani's Mayoral Campaign Inspires NYC's Working-Class South Asians
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The Kitchen Tables Behind Mamdani’s Kitchen-Table Strategy
Staging sites aren’t new to political campaigns, but they’ve never been done like this before.
Staging hosts have already helped power historic voter turnout, reshaping the electoral map of the city.
These sites solve many of the practical problems that come with deploying nearly 100,000 volunteers to canvassing sites around the city in four days (free storage space! reliable WiFi! bathrooms!), but the hosts I spoke to described the experience on a deeper level, in terms that reflected the Mamdani ethos of neighborly solidarity and political possibility.
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#MayorMamdanihttps://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-kitchen-tables-behind-mamdanis-kitchen-table-strategy/
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Citizens United
The New York City mayoral candidate used an undervalued political strategy to battle against dark money.
Ahead of the closely watched New York City mayoral race, everyone is looking for a lesson from progressive Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani’s rise to political stardom. The real answer may be a vastly undervalued political strategy: public money. Could public financing of elections overcome Citizens United and the flood of corporate cash and corruption in American politics?
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Europe’s left flocks to New York to take notes on Mamdani’s meteoric rise
Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of #ZohranMamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.
The Greens candidate for Paris mayor, David Belliard, said Mamdani’s success in appealing to voters worried about the cost of living, an issue plaguing Parisians as well as New Yorkers, had confirmed his suspicion that his party needed to run a more progressive campaign after spending more than two decades as a junior coalition partner to center-left mayors in the French capital who have done more to make the city greener than cheaper.
“We’ve spent a lot of time fighting against the end of the world, but maybe not enough helping people make it to the end of the month,” Belliard said.
#UnderstandMamdani
#MamdaniForMayorNYC
#MayorMamdanihttps://www.politico.eu/article/zohran-mamdani-new-york-campaign-european-left/
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Fight for New York:
Muslim voters rally as #ZohranMamdani battles vicious hate campaign
The attacks against me are not ones that have offended me because they are only about me. They have offended me because they are about all of us. I just want to ask everyone in this crowd if you can raise your hand, if you have been called a terrorist while living in this city; if you can raise your hand if you have had to deal with your name being mangled every day that you go into work; if you have ever been made to feel less than because of who you are, because of where you came from, because of what you believe in; this is why these words offend me, because they are about all of us, and no longer will we allow a politics in this city that seeks to discard those that they deem to be disposable. We are not just saying goodbye to a disgraced former governor on Tuesday. We are saying goodbye to the politics of that disgrace.
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Velshi 11/2/25 | 🅼🆂🅽🅱️🅲 Breaking News November 2, 2025
Interview with #ZohranMamdani
The issue is not what language Americans are speaking at the dinner table, it's what they can't afford to put on it.
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Phone bank for Zohran with Jeremy Corbyn!
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Zohran Mamdani Appears on Shop Cats
#MamdaniForMayorNYC is seen meeting the bodega’s resident puss, a calico cat named Coca. “Coca is cute,” he says. “Coca wants to play. Coca wants to live in a city she can afford.”
Also in the episode, Mamdani dances a few beats of the Dominican dance Bachata and says, “I love bodega cats. And I also love an egg and cheese on a roll with jalapeños.”
#UnderstandMamdani?
#MayorMamdani!
#ZohranMamdanihttps://variety.com/2025/politics/columns/zohran-mamdani-appearance-shop-cats-1236567338/
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Cuomo: Cognitive Decline or Prevarication?
You be the judge
There was a tense moment during Andrew M. Cuomo’s brief news conference in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, when Inna Vernikov, a local Republican councilwoman, started insulting Zohran Mamdani as she focused on his relatively short resume.
“Mamdani is a 32-year-old kid who has never had a job in his life, he has never passed a meaningful piece of legislation,” said Vernikov, misstating Mamdani’s actual age of 34. “Aside from the fact that he is a communist and an anti-Semite, he has no idea what he’s doing.”
Asked by a reporter whether he agreed with Vernikov’s contention that Mamdani was an antisemite and a communist, Cuomo demurred. “I don’t believe the council member said that,” Cuomo said. “Antisemitism is a problem in New York City.”
Vernikov flashed a brief smile after Cuomo deflected the question. He went on to characterize Mamdani as a “socialist.”
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New York City DSA leaders break down Mamdani's platform
Mainstream media are just catching up to the fact that DSA is a BIG reason #ZohranMamdani has done as well as he has.
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#ZohranMamdani And The Divided Democratic Party | Let It Rip
A worthwhile panel discussion (including Claire Valdez and Eon Tyrell Huntley) discussing, first, the #MamdaniForMayorNYC campaign in relation to the politics of Black New York; then #NYCDSA's relation to those politics.
"Where's your approach to racial equity? It cannot just be about the almighty dollar because it wasn't money that was stringing us up from trees."
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A User's Guide to DSA: 5 Debates That Define the Democratic Socialists
"this book is an invaluable tool for navigating the complex terrain of DSA – and an open invitation to the vital debates on how we can lay the foundations to win a socialist future."
[Published last month, includes articles addressing #MamdaniForMayorNYC ]
#NYCDSA
#DSA
#UnderstandMamdaniHardcover: https://payhip.com/b/2cv7u
Ebook: https://payhip.com/b/EqAxM
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Why I Joined the DSA
From Albany insider to card-carrying socialist, former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan , now a whistleblower, reflects on her political journey
Mamdani, his campaign, and the broad coalition of support will be written about for years to come. Among the most important forces behind this historic upset is the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Can Democratic socialists get Zohran Mamdani across the finish line?
Mayoral candidate’s ties to NYC’s democratic socialists may have aided his primary win – but can the group overcome critique from Democrats?
"Clearly there is something in the air that is shifting, because open socialists are running for office and winning, showing that our ideas are good, workable things that people actually need."
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#MamdaniForMayorNYC
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/democratic-socialists-zohran-mamdani-mayor-nyc
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Mamdani Victory Could Represent Expansion of the Left’s Influence
While business leaders are anxious over the prospect of Zohran Mamdani in City Hall, the Democratic Socialists of America are contemplating how they would wield power and influence policy.
[Gift link]#NYCDSA
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyregion/mamdani-socialists-dsa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.1oIL.JNq6S7LUKUgd&smid=em-share -
To the Field First, Comrades!
"What makes these declarations of spontaneous inception so remarkable is not merely that they are wrong, but that they get it entirely backwards. While Mamdani’s ascent may have bypassed the traditional Democratic Party machinery, his campaign didn’t achieve this through individual genius, but through a decade of methodical collective effort."
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#ZohranMamdanihttps://www.dropsitenews.com/p/zohran-mamdani-democratic-socialists-campaign-new-york-city-dsa
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Moving Mountains in New York City
"the most important factor in Zohran’s victory is the movement that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have built in New York City since the Bernie campaign in 2016...
"I went to a massive outdoor DSA party celebrating Zohran’s victory. What struck me most was that it showed how much DSA has built a movement culture. You could see it in the way everyone was talking to everyone."
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#NYCDSAhttps://coreyrobin.com/2025/07/13/moving-mountains-in-new-york-city/
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Mamdani to Volunteers: It Is Your Victory
In the video linked to in this Lemmy post, #ZohranMamdani tells volunteers just how much he owes his victory to #NYCDSA, how much he expects his #MamdaniForMayorNYC campaign to rely on it, heading into November, and how much he expects to rely on it if he is elected #MayorMamdani
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I've initiated a new series on my blog with the article:
Zohran Mamdani as DSA in the Flesh: Disindividuated Politics, Foundational Justice, and the Power of Sincerity#MamdaniForMayorNYC
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#ZohranMamdani - Why I Joined DSA
Without getting lost in the labels, #MamdaniForMayorNYC has managed to bring to a wider public something I have been arguing DSA needed to cultivate: a coherent, full-throated, comprehensive vision of an attainable future broadly consonant with values advanced by #socialism
In this video he explains how he got here.