electoralism

im slowly turning into raul castro

Lol, you all were shitting on me for calling this like 3 months ago.

And where did that bring you? How many times do I have to teach you this lesson?

shut up shut up shut up

you're RUNNING FOR MAYOR shut the fuck up

You're running for LOCAL OFFICE. You don't need to field these questions. Cuba and Venezuela are not your concern.

Why do this

Who are these statements even for? The right will see it as a bold faced lie, people on the far left will hate these statements and see it as a betrayal of core values, and I guess people on the centre left get to use it as a token statement to try shut down right wing critique. Yay.

and Trump is acting just like those authoritarian dictators too!

Can they just invent like ONE good American pls

This is getting a bit silly

Fuck this social fascist piece of shit

One of the tags for should be Mamdani.

Reading his Wikipedia article and comparing it with other people like Corbyn and Maduro makes him look so bad in comparison. But I'm not taking about the obvious like comparing what they are now or what they have done because Mamdani obviously hasn't done much by virtue of not having a real political career. Even comparing their very early forays into politics make Mamdani look like a fraud.

Maduro:

• Formed an illegal union and slowly climbed up the ranks within unions.
• Went to Cuba where he was ideologically trained by Cuban communists.

Morales:

• Started out being just some dude who's really interested in football, which was his foot into a coca grower union.
• Slowly climbed the ranks of the union until he became general secretary of the union.

Corbyn:

• Joined the Labour Party and various student activist groups at an early age.
• Attended a May Day parade in Allende's Chile which radicalized him.

Mamdani:

• Ran a bunch of fake elections (student president and so on)
• Worked as a foreclosure prevention and housing counselor
• Got involved in NYC politics

Overall, Mamdani's backstory paints him as some dude who just wants to be an elected politician and have always wanted to be an elected politician since he was little. He was never involved in any labor organizing or political activism. Given his backstory, it will isn't that surprising he would completely capitulate because none of his history thus far show him as someone who cares about anything but the trajectory of his own political career. He's just young enough that he doesn't have much of a political career yet, so there's less opportunity for him to go mask off in being a careerist.

Edit: I thought about it some more, and my impression of him is even worse now. Let's look at Sanders. Sanders started out as a participant of the civil rights movement. Mamdani is a millennial, and the millennial equivalent of civil rights activism is stuff like anti-Iraq war protests and BLM. But was he even a participant in those activism or any activism at all? Was he protesting against the Iraq war? Was he protesting against police brutality? Was he even involved in Occupy, the millennial movement that first started in the same exact city he's running for mayor?

Damn, I didn't care for him at all, and even I feel bamboozled after reading his Wikipedia article. Shoulda done the bare amount of investigation by reading a Wikipedia article and going off on him when a lot of his stans are still around lmao

Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.

Fuck. There's no pragmatic reason to fold on this, gusanos in NYC aren't going to tank his race. This is just naked ideology and opportunism.

I issue a formal apology to whomever it was I argued with some months ago in defense of Zohran. I didn't expect a ton from him but I expected better than this. I was wrong. I'm sorry I was wrong. I tried to go back in my comment history to find you and give you the gloating rights you deserve, but it crapped out after 10 pages of looking.

Idiot

god it hurts to think I was at all optimistic about this...thing.

Lol. Lmao even.

Wait, c/Electoralism isn't a prank community?

you hate to see it. You could have taken command of one of the juiciest mayoral seats in the world, could made a fucking mark on the nation's history. you could have had your own Red Guards one day if you called for them, the people are hungry man... they would defend you if you fed them.

Instead you will enjoy being bending over to the demands of your class enemies everyday. you were too libshit to embrace the beautiful power of the dictatorship of the proletariat, now your destiny is the dustbin like every other "social democratic" loser.

hahaha fuck this guy lmao

Socdems going to socdem I suppose. I always saw his campaign as a good way to actually push socialist ideas onto people, when he is constantly capitulating to the ruling class, despite his campaign promises, that's when our comrades in New York need to make sure the people around them understand why he isn't actually helping them and that you can't fix the system from within.

Just because well read socialists know that electoralism is a dead end doesn't mean that your average person does, so having an actual direct example of it not working is important for agitprop and education. How many people here are leftists because they were inspired by Bernie Sanders, or someone similar in their own countries/cities?

it’s zohver

This basically confirms he's winning the election and then being the AOC stopgap to any further socialist reforms.

If random gusanos gets him to think this way who knows what the dems have done.

Putting all of this disgusting, western chauvinism aside, it is objectively funny that so much is being made of the political positions of a mayor (yes, I know context matters and he's the presumptive mayor of New York but still)

Imagine this much of a stink being made regarding the opinions of the mayor of Minot, North Dakota