What a pile of (racist?) nonsense. I gave you examples but instead of furthering your research you decided to call it quits after reading the samples. It’s unbelievable the amount of orientalism even on an ML site. You’re not really giving the impression you are worth convincing otherwise. As bad as India is westerners and their bootlickers are the worst.
I would argue they don’t understand even basic science.
Even if they take a bio-essentialist paradigm (which is unscientific and undialectical anyway) they will have a hard time explaining themselves out of genetic penetrance. They’re about as scientific as so-called “race science”; it’s just another vehicle to channel their insecurities as violent supremacism.
If the older generation is more radical than the youth, the already fascist and insane Indian society really has no hope left.
(1) Why aren’t there more older folks marching similarly in the west? This should be more normal given demographic shifts.
(2) you’re not looking hard enough at the extent of organisation (this was a just an example of a quick search for sources in English):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4at0DyZWM
Yes India has a significant hindutva fascist cesspool. But it also has some of the largest socialist organising (outside of China of course) in the world.
“Rachel Reeves was confronted by a mother over Labour stance on Palestine”:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zi7xTrUqPao
“Rachel Reeves just destroyed disabled people’s lives AND public services in one fell swoop”:
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/26/rachel-reeves-spring-statement-dwp/
Absolute scum.
There’s going to a be tipping point if that they make enough people “illegal” and desperate too quickly then there will be national militant action against the state. There will not be enough ICE agents to stop that. Unless there’s another FDR to allow factions of capital to save itself from the others’ shortsightedness (from a capital perspective).
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8357375/6623393
The above videoer is correct in that it is a different perspective from outside of New York and Mamadani may well make the poorest New Yorkers’ lives less miserable.
Nah just the tweet.
He explicitly says he is not a communist. “Democratic socialists” are just effectively socdems no matter how much they say they don’t like capitalism or the billionaires (you could argue the focus on the billionaire over capital, and with that the lack of dissection of the reactionary masses that make up Americans, is in itself not scientific socialism - though I am not necessarily saying Mamdani is doing this currently). He sounds significantly better than a lot of american politicians but that’s because the bar is set so low. Unless marxist-leninsts take oppurtunity, for example using Mamdani’s political campaign (or even without), to organise both over and underground then this will amount to not much. Waiting for his campaign to bleed over to ML is a lost cause and idealism.
Doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the spectacle of the backlash.
(As a thought exercise consider if he becomes wildly successful FDR-style and his local movement becomes national and eradicates poverty in the US; will this then help destroy American global hegemony or help further cement it? Why scandinavian countries despite having the some of the best HDI not a threat to imperialism? Why are concessions to workers in the imperial core not a threat to global south superexploitation?)
If this isn’t just rhetoric then then it is definitely a step in the right direction despite the pitfalls of electoralism under capital. (My westernism is creeping up on me again.)
Nothing major: should be searchable on his twitter profile (“usaid”) referencing the guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/usaid-latin-americans-cuba-rebellion-hiv-workshops
I have just discovered:
(1) racist backlash to video of Mamdani eating rice with his hands
(2) he highlighted USAID involvement in Cuba destablisation
(1) has unironically proven he is a man of the highest of cultures.
I understand what I posted before (https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8309838/6593453) might contadict my current sentiment and this may be my bias as a westerner showing but I am thoroughly enjoying the backlash tears against Mamdani. And in this sociopathic malignant society that indeed is refreshing.
I guess we are going to move up the Kardashev scale quicker than expected.
The limits of a liberal democracy and peformative politics on climate change.
Thank you for taking the time to explain for all these queries; much appreciated! Stay safe brother.
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What’s stopping the state from “embracing” the sanctions Russia-style and going full throttle east? These western appeasing libs? If they are coming to power because of concerns with lack of geopolitical assertiveness from former government then wouldn’t they lose that power if they renege? Or are these “western” bourgoisie in Iran just that powerful? Are there competing factions of bourgoisie?
Damn that’s fucking bleak. Are they at least looking east or are they looking to be Honorary “Aryans” (ie I realise the irony of using that term to symbolise white supremacism to an Iranian)? Is there any chance that they may adopt anti-western-hegemony despite their bourgoisie sensiblities, even from a national self preservation point of view?
If we were to take the truly anti-racist approach on excess deaths and assume they (globally) would have all been developed (less take HDI greater than 0.9 as a very low bar to define “developed”) then excess deaths will likely be an extra billion on top of the estimates already stated
I no longer believe in Chomsky’s manufacturing consent. I think the right wingers are correct when they say the media gives the “people” ( I strongly believe the reactionary masses make up the “elite” rather than just billionaires) what they want in the US; the narratives are a license for their violent bigotry as they understand at some level they benefit from the exploitative relationship the US has with the rest of the world (even the vassal states that benefit from this hegemony).
If having the ability to livestream the genocide on their phones for the past couple of years isn’t going to change their minds, then their consent for murder was never manufactured in the first place.
(1) why may people get more reactionary as they get older in the west (let’s say compared to these Indian farmers)? [Hint: it’s to do with their relation with private property]. Why do you consider that the default to compare to other countries? [Especially when that fallacy was pointed out to you to for you to look up further]
(2) why then did you not bother investigating further before doubling down?
(3) you think I am being harsh? The socialist organisation in India is despite it being a capitalist hellhole with fascist hindutva normalised. They don’t just protest, they are deeply networked with overground and underground political movements. They put westerners who have significant more privilege and access to way more wealth to shame. And that is the eurocentric bias I am critcising you on.
If you’re meant to be an ML you should really investigate and you should also consider why you have your biases (hint it is not to do with any perceived lack of intelligence; you should be confident in your intelligence but question the systems that made you think a certain way). Someone implies you are racist? Consider the class colloboration perspectives on why that maybe the case. The only racism that matters is the prejudice with power; everything else is liberal hogwash.
I am a westerner and I have not undone being one; which means no matter what I may identify as between my ears I am a cog of racist machine that exploits the Global South - the only real hope of undoing that is through organisation. It is patronising to disparage those from the south who do socialist organising through difficult circumstances and use the lens of those more privileged (who do significantly less) to judge them by.
It is true you don’t know me from Adam but you can look at my history if you want where I come down on hindutva freaks and apologists like a tonne of bricks. This, however, means jack-all with theory of political change but I thought I’d mention it for context and perspectives.
We are all learning here. You should learn from this too.
Edited: removed the gratituous swearing, if you’re not a native anglo-speaker it could be distracting (or not)