Zohran Mamdani’s recent mayoral primary win again has the media asking what democratic socialism is and how it differs from mainstream European center-left politics.
Pretty critical typo at the beginning of the article! After the NYT quote, the next paragraph says Democratic Socialists want to shift power "from workers to corporations" and it is definitely the opposite lol
Social democracy is not the only thing on the table, by any means. Sean Fain, President of the UAW, threw general strike on the table with a bang at the 2024 Labor Notes Conference. That gives us a strategic focus because it raises the question of dual power—an organized Left populism posed against the capitalist state. There is a minority, but only a minority, wing of DSA that settles for the 1970 Sweden vision and is blind to dual power. We can co-opt it with a non-electoral political strategy for the working class. One that organizes the working class from the inside, from the workplace.
Pretty critical typo at the beginning of the article! After the NYT quote, the next paragraph says Democratic Socialists want to shift power "from workers to corporations" and it is definitely the opposite lol
Oops! Thank you, fixed lol
Haha, I got you, comrade!
I like Tim Walz’s “Some call it socialism, I call it neighborliness.”
Social democracy is not the only thing on the table, by any means. Sean Fain, President of the UAW, threw general strike on the table with a bang at the 2024 Labor Notes Conference. That gives us a strategic focus because it raises the question of dual power—an organized Left populism posed against the capitalist state. There is a minority, but only a minority, wing of DSA that settles for the 1970 Sweden vision and is blind to dual power. We can co-opt it with a non-electoral political strategy for the working class. One that organizes the working class from the inside, from the workplace.