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Islamic.Socialist (ML)'s avatar

As an Islamic Socialist whose a bit further left, Zohran is a step towards breaking neoliberal influence on the masses.

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Johnny Goldin's avatar

Please explain “Islamic Socialist” not that it can’t exist, but how much socialism and freedom, and how much nationalism and coercion?

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Islamic.Socialist (ML)'s avatar

Sure, I got an article on this that I’ve written and another on the way.

Islamic Socialism doesn’t have a universally defined ideology and has had various different groups stem from it, I come from those rooted in the Dagestan experience, more religious, but also Leninist in nature.

As for nationalism, nationalism is haram in Islam. Coercion in what function - because there is nothing more coercive than capitalism. If you mean coercion by socialism, the only enemies coerced are fascists and capitalists.

https://islamicmarxismleninism.substack.com/p/islamic-socialism-a-globally-suppressed

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Willa Wasik's avatar

OUT with the billionaires. Strip them of their ill-gained status. Strip them of their disgusting ill-gained wealth at the cost of their struggling workers and families.

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Allison Wiltz's avatar

Wonderful piece that sums of the joy of this moment

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Anya Kamenetz's avatar

I agree with all of this! People power is great! Except I haven't seen any real evidence that DSA-NY is a working class movement. Mamdani and his strongest base are college educated. There's nothing wrong with that--class traitors are crucial! and his voters may well be more diverse than that, but it's important to know exactly who is in this coalition.

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White Squirrel's Nest's avatar

Most college educated people are working class if you are going by a Marxist definition. And plenty of people with college education work jobs that don't require them. And you're talking about NYC so the degree inflation & cost of living is far worse than where I live in the Twin Cities.

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CrumpledForeskin's avatar

College educated has nothing to do with being part of the workers movement. You can have a doctorate and be part of the working class movement. A degree doesn’t make you an elitist or a capitalist.

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Anya Kamenetz's avatar

We'll see when we get the vote tallies by income

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CrumpledForeskin's avatar

I do agree that the movement itself isn’t a socialist movement, from what I can tell.

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Adriana DiFazio's avatar

WE DIDDDD ITT!!!!!!!!!! lol I don't even live in NYC anymore josh and I am EUPHORIC. Wish I could be in Brooklyn celebrating with you and others!!!!!

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R Everett's avatar

Oh please..being a leftist doesn't make you a socialist! Sheesh. So many people sadly don't seem to have much of a clue of what capitalism is , let alone socialism. As with the Bernie Sanders people, what is being offered is just a humanised version of the profit system

https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2016/2010s/no-1343-july-2016/democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders/

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CrumpledForeskin's avatar

Yes, I don’t know what they mean by democratic socialist. Do people realize that capitalism and socialism are antithetical? Are they wanting control over the means of production? What about them is socialist? I guarantee you AOC, and Bernie Sanders, aren’t socialist in the slightest.

The Democratic Party is a capitalist party of the empire. What about him is socialist? It sounds like people throwing around words.

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Layne's avatar

I think it’s fine that people are happy about his victory, but people thought AOC was going to be great and look at her. Happy for people in NYC while remaining hugely sceptical is my position. Also imagine if the same people focused on other things after knocking on doors for a politician?

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Kate T's avatar

Sorry to be that guy but his name is misspelled in the header

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Julie's avatar

Great to push Cuomo out. That should go without saying. But I thought you would be more wary in your hopes for the elected official savior. I hope I’m wrong about him, but at the very least comrades should be on guard.

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Celine Nguyen's avatar

This was so touching. I always appreciate your writing and how you consistently emphasize the importance of mass movements with lots of people contributing! Zohran Mamdani is an inspirational person—but there are thousands of inspirational people working alongside him…

I loved this part of your post and I’m so grateful you are writing like this, every week, to keep people focused and hopeful:

“Zohran has helped every other New York DSA elected official in their campaigns, he’s gone upstate to the Hudson Valley to help win a socialist an assembly seat up there, he’s gotten arrested protesting, he’s gone on a hunger strike alongside NYC cab drivers when they needed our help. These are immensely commendable actions in and of themselves, but beyond that they speak to Zohran being a part of something bigger than himself. He's part of an organization, he's part of a movement.”

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

The title states an absurdity.

Until the working class takes all power and authority to itself, seizes and runs the productive means through its own committees, expropriates the expropriators, puts Capitalists on trial for innumerable crimes, there is no socialist republic.

Such adulation in times of crisis is a confession of political illiteracy.

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Neecole Pardee's avatar

This news is so incredibly exciting and inspiring. I love to see it!

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Layne's avatar

Happy for y ‘all while remaining largely sceptical. Hoping to be proven wrong.

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Ryan Rose Weaver (she/hers)'s avatar

I had the same thought — that more Mamdanis will bloom now, emboldened by this win. I can’t wait to see what that looks like.

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Cassie Brayman's avatar

I could not love this win more! The only thing I didn’t like is that I live 90 miles north of the city so I couldn’t vote for him! ✊✌️🫶

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Parara's avatar

Socialist NYC, the heart of international finance, is such an oxymoron

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Jennylff's avatar

I appreciate and share your enthusiasm.

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