why would you expect someone to paint a crosshair on his face before building power and popular support that could protect him from the police. he’s not mayor yet
a) they’re trying to get a mayor in office, you might’ve heard of that
b) he hasn’t delivered for the people, support to vote for someone is a lower bar than putting themselves in front of bullets
c) do you think this is related to not approaching them with as much hostility as you’re condemning him for not using
you can’t have your cake and eat it too. Mamdani can be bad because he’s not doing a protracted people’s war, but Mamdani didn’t become bad because he won’t spit in cop’s faces while running in an election.
getting a politician elected to office in a bourgeois democracy is not “building power” in any way that matters for socialists. no, the fact that the NYPD haven’t assassinated him isn’t anything to do with what he’s said or not said, they don’t kill Democratic candidates because Democrats are not a threat to their role in society, as his statements and policies indicate. it’s actually absurd that people think something like that would happen if he were more anti-police, rather than the Democrats just ejecting him from the candidacy via more brazenly anti-democratic means.
the plan isn’t to get an ass in the mayor’s seat and declare “socialism!” the plan is to establish institutions that help the people to build a material basis of support.
you’re playacting the ‘realist pessimist’ but utterly naive about the stakes and program. just saying ‘cops would never’ doesn’t make it so
why would you expect someone to paint a crosshair on his face before building power and popular support that could protect him from the police. he’s not mayor yet
a) are the DSA actually “building power that could protect him from the police”
b) he is already the most popular candidate in the race by far
c) the NYPD is not going to assassinate him get over yourself he’s a Democrat not Fred Hampton
you sound a lot like the people who were saying “Starmer will move left once he’s in power just watch” a year ago
a) they’re trying to get a mayor in office, you might’ve heard of that
b) he hasn’t delivered for the people, support to vote for someone is a lower bar than putting themselves in front of bullets
c) do you think this is related to not approaching them with as much hostility as you’re condemning him for not using
you can’t have your cake and eat it too. Mamdani can be bad because he’s not doing a protracted people’s war, but Mamdani didn’t become bad because he won’t spit in cop’s faces while running in an election.
getting a politician elected to office in a bourgeois democracy is not “building power” in any way that matters for socialists. no, the fact that the NYPD haven’t assassinated him isn’t anything to do with what he’s said or not said, they don’t kill Democratic candidates because Democrats are not a threat to their role in society, as his statements and policies indicate. it’s actually absurd that people think something like that would happen if he were more anti-police, rather than the Democrats just ejecting him from the candidacy via more brazenly anti-democratic means.
the plan isn’t to get an ass in the mayor’s seat and declare “socialism!” the plan is to establish institutions that help the people to build a material basis of support.
you’re playacting the ‘realist pessimist’ but utterly naive about the stakes and program. just saying ‘cops would never’ doesn’t make it so