The AOCification of Zohran Mamdani is taking place in record time. Mamdani today vowed to "quickly and firmly" endorse Hakeem Jeffries if the Democrats win back the House in the midterms.
Karl Marx had incredible foresight. One of his most famous quotes (often not attributed to him): "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
He was talking about Mamdani.
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Zohran Mamdani told NBC’s Kristen Welker he wants Hakeem Jeffries to stay Democratic leader and become Speaker if Democrats win the House. On Friday, Jeffries was one of 86 Democrats who backed a GOP-led resolution “condemning socialism.” Mamdani has also opposed fellow democratic socialist Chi Ossé’s primary challenge against Jeffries.
The only way for working people to win anything under capitalism is class struggle. We need militant, determined, organized mass movements prepared to to go all out against both parties of the billionaire class.
For us to make any forward progress that basic fact needs to be understood, and it's the responsibility of any working-class leader to help make it clear - not to add to the confusion that has led to defeat after defeat for our movements.
There *IS* a logic to what Mamdani is doing, from his meetings with billionaires (and now Trump) to his opposition to an electoral challenge to genocidal Wall Street servant Hakeem Jeffries to his retaining of Jessica Tisch as NYC Police Commissioner.
That logic is: *anything* but class struggle.
It is the logic of betrayal.
We don't need ridiculous debates over whether Mamdani "owned" Trump or Trump "owned" Mamdani. The only people who got owned yesterday are the DSA leaders who are doing backflips to defend someone who is selling out working people in record time.
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It’s only 10 days into Kshama's independent socialist campaign for Congress against pro-genocide Democrat Adam Smith, and already the right-wing attacks are escalating, including the defacement of our posters as you can see in the photos below.
Unsurprisingly, the main attack is that opposing the genocide in Gaza makes @cmkshama “anti-Semitic.” This, of course, is not only one of the favorite slurs against the antiwar movement from the right wing, but also from Democratic politicians like Chuck Schumer who just published a book with this premise called “Antisemitism in America.”
It’s one of the iron laws of working-class politics that the greater the political impact you’re having, the more you’ll get attacked, and that’s what’s happening here in spades. The right wing and the Democratic Party hate that working people are excited about our demands to end the genocide, end all U.S. military aid to Israel, stop the deportations & shut down the detention centers, win free healthcare by taxing the rich, and fight for rent control. They hate that our campaign has already raised over $70,000 from working people in 40 states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico.
The BEST way to push back on these kinds of attacks is to build the strongest possible campaign and go on the offensive for working people. If you’re reading this, please take a moment to go to kshamasawant.org/donate and make a donation now. And also sign up to volunteer for our campaign — it’s going to take thousands of us to defeat Adam Smith and the Zionist lobby that’s backing him to the hilt.
In some ways the more disappointing, though predictable, development has been the sectarian attacks from the “left.” This includes some activists at Wednesday’s ICE Out protest physically (and somewhat violently) ripping the microphone out of Kshama’s hands as she was speaking and then screaming in her face. That has since been followed up by a sectarian social media post by DSA member, Sundar Sharma, who justifies the incident by saying Kshama was “bogarting the mic.” In fact she was about 2 minutes into her speech, which had been punctuated repeatedly by loud applause. The mood was electric and most people were hanging on Kshama's every word. Sundar also bizarrely claims that Kshama was criticizing DSA. She hadn’t said a word about DSA, but she *was* rightly criticizing the Democrats for their total failure to fight Trump. Many people chanted “let her speak” after the mic was seized from Kshama, but the sectarians weren't having it.
Instead of this kind of toxicity on the left, we urgently need to put the focus on fighting effectively for the urgent issues we agree on. That’s one of the reasons we’re building the strongest antiwar, working-class campaign in the country behind Kshama’s run for US Congress:
End the genocide in Gaza — no military aid, no occupation
End the deportations — shut down the detention centers
Free healthcare now — tax the rich
We need rent control — make corporate landlords pay
I hope you’ll join us.
The "joyful warrior."
The image is a ref to Cold War era film: "Dr. Strangelove - How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb." A vote for Harris is a vote for genocide & terrifying escalation toward wider war.
Build the vote for antiwar, pro-worker candidate Jill Stein.
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.@cmkshama @SocialistAltSEA @SeattleDSA Warren Gunnels, @BernieSanders policy director, calls our movement's Amazon Tax a "huge victory." nitter.gq/GunnelsWarren/status/9…
Huge victory! The $12 million tax Amazon will pay = what @JeffBezos makes in about an hour or less. For those who opposed it remember: Your taxes are subsidizing Amazon's low wage workers who rely on food stamps, Medicaid & public housing to make the richest man alive even richer nitter.gq/cmkshama/status/996112…
Small business owner and @SocialistAltSEA member @Shirleyhen73 in @seattletimes calling for the strongest possible Amazon tax. nitter.gq/SocialistAltSEA/status…
"Unlike Bezos, I’m a business owner who supports the head tax" seattletimes.com/opinion/unl… via @seattletimes
"That is what democratic socialism is - putting people and the planet over profits!" @People4Bernie @BernieSanders nitter.gq/lindseywasson/status/7…
. @cmkshama just spoke to #bernieinseattle crowd here at #safecofield . Updates: seattletimes.com/seattle-new…
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.@cmKshama won a series of budget victories today. Her statement and list of secured budget adds: seattle.gov/news/newsdetail_…
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