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

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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