Zohran Mamdani’s victory last night was a straightforward triumph of people over money, the kind capitalist elites try so hard to convince us is impossible. Cuomo’s campaign was bankrolled by $25 million from some of the worst actors in American life
Providing an alternative to establishment politics and an increasingly right-leaning party made all the difference for Mamdani, argues politics editor Lex McMenamin in this op-ed. Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference
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Gary Dorrien’s sweeping history of American democratic socialism weaves personal, intellectual, and spiritual narratives together in a book that reminds us of the great potential of the socialist movement.
King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power."
It’s not enough for socialists to point out capitalism’s many faults — we need to explain our positive vision of the future and how it lives up to our ideals of justice.
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