Whats funny is that any democrat could do this as well but they don’t simply because they’re actually just fucking scum
Also, point to one that isn’t a landlord.
No kidding. Long before I was a Marxist I pointed out to my friends that the bar is so sadly low. Politicians in the us don’t even try to relate to the masses
Oh so serious Liberals leave so many easy Ws on the floor, then act surprised that public sentiment isn’t in their favor simply for gracing us with their mere existence.
There’s no other way of looking at this: this was as potent of a first day move as one could make to push things clearly in the direction of solidifying socialism.
Above all else people can’t afford rent. And, the fucking glaringly brazen way that landlords are able to get away with utterly leaving apartments in disrepair yet still asking for rent checks is the epitome of capitalist decay. And he’s shining a light on both here.
That Zohran knows he has a mega platform now and chose to go to a black neighborhood in Brooklyn, with tv news cameras following his every move, is a stroke of genius.
I don’t know how all this is going to pan out. There will be and I’m sure now is underway all kinds of hellacious subterfuge and sabotage to sink his agenda.
But if he can win the hearts and minds of working people, who have been fucked over in election after election by the shitty fake democrats that win easily here, and get them to see themselves in solidarity with a socialist movement, we could really be seeing the beginnings of building a serious socialist movement to dislodge the feckless democrats.
It can not be a phot opp. I don’t think it will be.
He’s gonna get jack ruby’d
assuming he keeps this up for his first year and that happens:
at the peak of his popularity and before he fucks it up or gets rug pulled would absolutely martyr him in organic ways that will make the farce of Kirk look like the pathetic whining of grifters that it was.
With the same results
you think they’re going to assassinate him and then have a guy freak out and kill the assassin?
No he’s just gonna get merced by some shithead club owner that “loves his country and hates socialism”
No, Mamdani is gonna assassinate RFK, then get shot by some Mafia guy
Hope he sticks to this and shuts the fuck up about foreign policy.
Better yet, stick to this AND take anti-imperialist line on foreign policy. But failing that just shut the fuck up about it.
Because this is good.
Wake me up when he passes legislation that permits nationalizing slumlord rentals if the landlords fail to adhere to the contracts and laws that they are bound to
Feels like that’s where he’s going with it to be honest. Publicise the worst buildings in the city, publicise their auction to the worst landlords in the city, publicise their failure to improve despite the tenants office continuing to crackdown and demand improvements.
Build up the case against them for complete and total failure. Call the buildings a serious danger, not just to the occupants but to the rest of the city itself.
Forcibly take the buildings at a rate worth the incredible number of problems they have and the immense negligence of the landlords running them. If they don’t want the buildings to be taken then the landlords can be fined for every single one of the thousands of different problems with the building that they are not meeting city codes with.
Build it up properly and the entire city will support it.
I really hope this is how it plays out.
critical support,
, all that. this is objectively good and productive. i also wish he was a vanguardist.Someone has to make Chris Hayes’s (editors note: I meant Mathews, the guy from.the 2020 Bernie campaign that flipped out after the nevada primary) nightmares of the central park people’s trials a reality one of these days after all.
Chris Hayes immediately after the cameras stopped rolling, “What is this lathe doing here?”
That was Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes is like the least-worst media lib.
Whoopse thanks o7
A serious vanguardist wouldn’t announce they’re a vanguardist.
Vanguardism refers to Leninism, vanguardists typically announce extremely explicitly that they are vanguardists.
I mean, sure, in general. But at this point in US history? With the conditions we have and the ideological state of the general public? The ground may be futile, but there’s still no worker movement to be a vanguard for.
Still, the USA has multiple vanguard parties, including the PSL, PCUSA, and FRSO.
Wait, aren’t PCUSA patsocs, or did you mean CPUSA?
You’re thinking of ACP, I believe.
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What’s your problem with the working class, that you want us to suffer the same fate as the Paris commune, or every proletarian revolution that was not led by a vanguard party?
we don’t have an army to resist nation-states.
i’d be less convinced of the necessity of a vanguard if people were popping ice agents on the street consistently
but opposite
