Great piece, but we need to be careful about taking Bernie Sanders' "Democratic Socialist" self-description at face value. After all, he didn't honeymoon in Copenhagen or Stockholm - instead he chose romantic Yaroslavl as any good Communist would - because that's what Bernie has always been. It's just that his is the musty Stalinist variety of his youth among the peasants of Brooklyn, so it seems more quaint and quirky than menacing. Of course, as he became wealthy and began amassing an impressive real estate portfolio, his revolutionary ardor somewhat diminished. He used to denounce "millionaires" until he became one, now he denounces "billionaires and trillionaires". The world looks different out of the window of a private jet and somehow the problems of the working class seem far, far away.
At your best when explaining the links to communism that are permeating western democracies. Fascinating points on mamdanis father thesis and his points on the Allies and Nazis that we see today in revisionist self taught autodidacts podcast world.
I object to using the misleading term "democratic socialism". Socialism has a clear and consistent meaning, which Mamdani embraces. It is the state's ownership of the means of production. This was the economic system of the USSR, Mao's China, Cambodia and the rest of the disaster zones of the last century that killed far more people than Nazi Germany. Even though the parties that spearheaded this class genocide mostly called themselves "communist" (not all of them), it was aspirational. Communism, as Marx defines it, is a classless society with no money or private property. It never existed.
"Democratic socialism" is a deliberate ideological obfuscation of the history and economy of socialism by the left. It is an oxymoron that cannot exist. What actually exists is social democracy. It is a market-based economy that uses taxation and other forms of profit redistribution to create a welfare state. This is (or used to be) the system in the Nordic countries. Whatever you think of it, it's not socialism. Sweden has as many startups per capita as the US, and most Nordic corporations are privately owned. Mamdani is clear in his speech that he wants the Soviet system, not the Swedish system.
An interesting fact: when Israel, that vital state safeguarding the West from Islam, was created, there were kibbutzim. There still are, though they have changed in many ways. Those kibbutzim back then were 100% socialist. Wilfully they shared everything, and lived equally. They had indeed been politically infused by European socialism. If I may add a bit of religious history, particularly since Christendom still is the main European and Western religion, the first Jesus followers, the literal followers of " the Way", lived in such communities. The irony of it all.
Absolutely. The kibbutzim are a proof that socialism as an economic system, even without state compulsion, eventually crumbles from the inside. The second and third generations of kibbutz members rebelled against equal pay for unequal labor, pooling of all resources, and the communal rearing of children. Kibbutzim today are more like rich and exclusive suburbia that are very hard to join. They have taken down their red flags and are quietly hiring outside labor to work in the fields and tourist facilities.
All sounds true and thanks for the thorough analysis and definition of terms.
I see the core of Mamdani as Islam. World domination in the name of Islam. Communism/Socialism is a pretext. It's easier to sell. The real dream is to genocide Israel. This seems a secret code for Allah pronouncing his brutal self on behalf of Islam, the symbolic erasure of the mother faith. There is no difference between Islamist and Muslim. Kill Israel, re-conquer Jerusalem, revive " globalised" Jihad, call on an ecstatic Islamic Middle-East to supremacy , arm them with nuclear weapons from conquered European nations, and take over. Mamdani made clear in his election victory speech that he is there to bring power in the corridors of governance to Muslims, and when he speaks of Islam and Muslims, he is directing himself to the entire Middle-Eastern Islamic world he belongs to. None of his communist pretences has anything to do with Israel. Communism is also an enemy of religion. The two pronged Mamdani big plan is false. The two are not compatible. Communism and Islam don't go together. The Islamic states' kings and magnates are drowning in oil, gas and money. No communism for them.
" Palestinianism", a hoax, is a pretext of many Jew-haters. Mamdani's recent pronouncement against the attacked Park East synagogue blaming it for perverting " sacred space" shows the depths of his basic identity. It is Muslim. Global. Violent. Genocidal .
Allied with enemies of the USA. Treacherous. That's why we should be so concerned. His " communism" , which he used well to get elected, is not feasible. Even idiotic wokes understand it.
Great piece, but we need to be careful about taking Bernie Sanders' "Democratic Socialist" self-description at face value. After all, he didn't honeymoon in Copenhagen or Stockholm - instead he chose romantic Yaroslavl as any good Communist would - because that's what Bernie has always been. It's just that his is the musty Stalinist variety of his youth among the peasants of Brooklyn, so it seems more quaint and quirky than menacing. Of course, as he became wealthy and began amassing an impressive real estate portfolio, his revolutionary ardor somewhat diminished. He used to denounce "millionaires" until he became one, now he denounces "billionaires and trillionaires". The world looks different out of the window of a private jet and somehow the problems of the working class seem far, far away.
At your best when explaining the links to communism that are permeating western democracies. Fascinating points on mamdanis father thesis and his points on the Allies and Nazis that we see today in revisionist self taught autodidacts podcast world.
I object to using the misleading term "democratic socialism". Socialism has a clear and consistent meaning, which Mamdani embraces. It is the state's ownership of the means of production. This was the economic system of the USSR, Mao's China, Cambodia and the rest of the disaster zones of the last century that killed far more people than Nazi Germany. Even though the parties that spearheaded this class genocide mostly called themselves "communist" (not all of them), it was aspirational. Communism, as Marx defines it, is a classless society with no money or private property. It never existed.
"Democratic socialism" is a deliberate ideological obfuscation of the history and economy of socialism by the left. It is an oxymoron that cannot exist. What actually exists is social democracy. It is a market-based economy that uses taxation and other forms of profit redistribution to create a welfare state. This is (or used to be) the system in the Nordic countries. Whatever you think of it, it's not socialism. Sweden has as many startups per capita as the US, and most Nordic corporations are privately owned. Mamdani is clear in his speech that he wants the Soviet system, not the Swedish system.
An interesting fact: when Israel, that vital state safeguarding the West from Islam, was created, there were kibbutzim. There still are, though they have changed in many ways. Those kibbutzim back then were 100% socialist. Wilfully they shared everything, and lived equally. They had indeed been politically infused by European socialism. If I may add a bit of religious history, particularly since Christendom still is the main European and Western religion, the first Jesus followers, the literal followers of " the Way", lived in such communities. The irony of it all.
Absolutely. The kibbutzim are a proof that socialism as an economic system, even without state compulsion, eventually crumbles from the inside. The second and third generations of kibbutz members rebelled against equal pay for unequal labor, pooling of all resources, and the communal rearing of children. Kibbutzim today are more like rich and exclusive suburbia that are very hard to join. They have taken down their red flags and are quietly hiring outside labor to work in the fields and tourist facilities.
All sounds true and thanks for the thorough analysis and definition of terms.
I see the core of Mamdani as Islam. World domination in the name of Islam. Communism/Socialism is a pretext. It's easier to sell. The real dream is to genocide Israel. This seems a secret code for Allah pronouncing his brutal self on behalf of Islam, the symbolic erasure of the mother faith. There is no difference between Islamist and Muslim. Kill Israel, re-conquer Jerusalem, revive " globalised" Jihad, call on an ecstatic Islamic Middle-East to supremacy , arm them with nuclear weapons from conquered European nations, and take over. Mamdani made clear in his election victory speech that he is there to bring power in the corridors of governance to Muslims, and when he speaks of Islam and Muslims, he is directing himself to the entire Middle-Eastern Islamic world he belongs to. None of his communist pretences has anything to do with Israel. Communism is also an enemy of religion. The two pronged Mamdani big plan is false. The two are not compatible. Communism and Islam don't go together. The Islamic states' kings and magnates are drowning in oil, gas and money. No communism for them.
" Palestinianism", a hoax, is a pretext of many Jew-haters. Mamdani's recent pronouncement against the attacked Park East synagogue blaming it for perverting " sacred space" shows the depths of his basic identity. It is Muslim. Global. Violent. Genocidal .
Allied with enemies of the USA. Treacherous. That's why we should be so concerned. His " communism" , which he used well to get elected, is not feasible. Even idiotic wokes understand it.
Zohran = Mohran
Mamdani = Mandumi
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