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"Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani looks
increasingly like the one to beat at next week’s election. But he is up against
more than the usual political challenges.
US President Donald Trump has referred to him as “my little communist” and
called his nomination “a rebellion”. More recently there have been calls for
Mamdani’s citizenship to be investigated.
Born in Uganda, and the first Muslim nominee for mayor of the biggest city in
the US, the 34-year-old Mamdani is an obvious target. But it is his stance as a
democratic socialist that has really invited the old-school “red-baiting”,
aimed at discrediting him by invoking Cold War anxieties.
In fact, Mamdani’s approach to democratic socialism is less about an abstract
political ideology than it is about practical solutions. As he has put it:
We want to showcase our ideals, not by lecturing people about how correct we
are, but rather by delivering and letting that delivery be the argument
itself.
Because of this, he has also been described as an heir to the historical
tradition of “sewer socialism”, a brand of left-wing thinking that favoured
incremental, practical reform over revolutionary rhetoric."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
