Zohran Mamdani's Win is The Biggest Opportunity For The Left - Our Golden Hour!
How Zohran Mamdani's win just changed everything. He's opened the floodgates. How we operate from here is our make or break in reaching nationwide masses on a scale not seen in years.
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As an Islamic Socialist myself, when I first heard about Mamdani’s campaign, I was excited. His win has made me overjoyed to say the least. (Also if you want to read a little about Islamic Socialism, I got an article on that).
Now, everyone who knows me and my content knows I’m a revolutionist, that I don’t believe reform will fix the systemic issues as a whole. That said, I support Zohran Mamdani because he’s just opened the doors for the masses to the rest of the Left.
Why This Changes Everything:
After Mamdani’s primary win, the search term on Google for “Socialism” started spiking across the US, with NY of course being the state with the most searching this term.
He has, in a primary election, grabbed the nation’s attention towards Socialism. It reminds me of when Bernie called himself a Democratic Socialist, except Zohran is further Left than Bernie.
He’s praised and been praised by the Communist Party of India.
He ran on a strong policy-focused campaign that prioritized free transportation, rent freezes & housing reform, affordable city-owned grocery markets, tax reform, and violence prevention programs. Just to name a few.
He quote Tweeted a DNC post saying “If we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production”
Based on his Substack account, he follows
’s “Vulgar Marxism” newsletter.He’s said if Netanyahu shows up in NY he’ll have him arrested.
And he’s been targeted for refusing to capitulate to Zionism.
Just by these accounts alone, he’s further Left than Bernie.
Zohran winning the primary has united all the worse people against him & what he fights for - neoliberals, Zionists, fascists, capitalists, anti-communists and, of course, Islamophobes. This new unity by reactionaries and the ruling class, contrasts with the communists, socialists, Muslims, anarchists, DemSocs and others who are rallying behind Zohran along with a large part of working class people.
Basically, the contradictions and conditions are sharpening, and it’s now exposing the everyday worker to Left-wing people, groups, and values.
I usually wouldn’t put my support behind either of the two parties, but Zohran is an anomaly purely because he represents a desire the masses have, and his campaign causes chaos for the weathly neoliberals, wealthy conservatives, and their donors, which is an objective good. That said, it’s not a fix by any measure and serves more as a means to bring the larger masses to the actual left-wing where they should be - but often never reach because of the DNC subverting it & our own lack of infrastructure building or collaboration.
It’s no surprise because of Zohran’s win that Bernie and AOC are trying to butter him up and make their moves to pull him towards the neoliberals. Basically subverting the progressives as they always do. And this is a shared concern by many, not wanting Zohran to be another Bernie or AOC. It is good that Zohran has came out saying he wants to be held accountable by the people, and it serves an importance to keep him closer to the Left than the DNC establishment bootlickers. That’s a shared responsibility us on the Left have now.
What To Do Now?:
I can’t stress enough the importance for action at this moment than ever before. The entire nation, even some parts of the world, just witnessed a Marxist sympathetic progressive dominate a primary against an establishment politician who was backed by millions of dollars, other career politicians & corporations.
I won’t mince or water down my words, I look at this struggle, the struggle of victories for the working class, the struggle for Socialism, as a life or death struggle - I need you all to look at it the same way.
We need those who make content to be louder than ever before on important issues, we need mass centralization of influencers and organizations to collaborate on different topics and how to reach the populace, and we need people hitting the streets like they’re professional activists, we need everyone sharing tactics and building together. We need to make progressive to communist beliefs common place. We need to deeply intertwine ourselves with our communities and spread our beliefs during this heightened time of awareness.
It won’t be easy, we as a movement are severely behind. I criticize the Left a lot, but my biggest criticisms are are these 5 mentioned in this article. Regardless, this is a time for mass collaboration & coalition building. There can be no excuses during this time.
Of the many things we are severely behind on, one of which is technological infrastructure to bring every left-wing person into and mass plan without the worry or threat of censorship. This is something my comrades and I have been working on for a while called Byte Red - an IT services & cyber security agency, and socialist think tank. We are still working on it, but it will be made public soon enough and promoted. We aim to network with groups and influencers to build this mass network that is necessary to dominate influence over the American masses who are currently under the influence by establishment propaganda.
With the win, the gates have opened, and the road is clear. If we seek to be successful, we must build together and fight for a future and bigger picture if we truly believe in it.
Especially now, because the ruling class are already moving to destroy this victory we’ve all gained, or subvert it’s progress for the masses. First with a CEO threatening to create false scarcity as an attack against Mamdani, and with the richest of NYC meeting to address “the Zohran situation.” Our action, and our urgency to act, to raise class consciousness and rally the masses to the Left while protecting Zohran, is of highest importance.
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