Pragmatism is required to build a social democratic New York. The key to radical reform, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani clearly understands, is to be pragmatic as all hell.
Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty will be a fight for what’s winnable right now. Our job is to let that fight expand, not narrow, our horizon — and to keep alive the goal of socialism in our time.
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While elite institutions capitulate, resistance to Trump’s neo-fascist agenda is building among large segments of the population. On “No Kings Day”, October 18, close to seven million people rallied in more than a thousand towns and cities.
A Gothamist analysis of turnout data shows voters between ages 30 and 39 made up the largest share of a record-setting 2 million voters. Turnout among 18- to 29-year-old voters nearly tripled. Does Mamdani’s success represent a paradigm shift?
Zohran Mamdani got the headlines, but New York was not a one-off. Candidates endorsed by the Working Families Party had amazing election successes elsewhere in America, showing well-organized progressives can beat the power of big money.
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Resistance is everywhere
"I ask no mercy and I plead for no immunity. I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice.”
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
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