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I don’t disagree with you at all.
However, here on Hexbear we’ve let China - a country that actually matters - off the hook for much of its inaction, and if so, why should we hold Mamdani - a mere mayor of an American city with no influence on the foreign policy of its federal government - to such high standards?
If China can play the long game to wait for the right moment to strike (one of the major excuses given here), maybe Mamdani the Socialist could too.
China is a state which has a stated strategy and goals and processes which it is holding to. Mamdani is an individual going rogue with statements and policy changes. These are uncomparable
Mamdani is part of a DSA faction which aims to produce a split in the democratic party by helping socialists and left liberals win races under the DSA banner. He absolutely has a long game. Its a stupid long game, but he has one
Despite this faction, I don't think he is acting according to its strategic and tactical plans (and I think simultaneously that these plans are not concrete, meaningful, of well planned enough). If he is, I'd be very surprised. But even so, a western socdem/democ party planning and process is incomparable to CPC policies in size and scope and durability
Well, yeah, the DSA is a marginal nonprofit run by volunteers and the CPC is the ruling party of the worlds' most powerful state. Theres gonna be a couple differences lol
Definitely, but this is where I think XHS is wrong to make such a comparison. Relative to the CPC, anything similar Mamdani does with or without a DSA fraction can be characterized as individual and anarchic
To be clear, this isn't an argument saying that anything less than CPC size movement is worthless. It's just that similar actions have incomparable aspects due to this factor