Podcast: Mamdani’s not a Messiah
Dip and Scooter discuss Mamdani's mayoral win, how the Left and other communities reacted, and how we might actually reach what we're all hoping for: liberation.
On this podcast episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip analyzes Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral win and the counter-insurgent nature of 'reform' strategies. Dip ends by proposing a bottom-up engagement that centers popular power.
Photo by Shai Pal on Unsplash
See time stamps below:
12:30: Distinction between progressives and radicals
19:00: Radical reasoning is abductive
21:30: What do we do?
28:35: How do we relate to electoralism generatively?
32:50: Defining politics and power
38:50: Money as power via federations of cooperatives
44:50: The role of community assemblies
51:40: Highlighting the importance of addressing people's material needs
55:05: Summarizing Dip's proposed anti-electoralist electoral strategy
58:05: Discussing remaining questions to be answered
This conversation is adapted from an essay linked here.
Show notes (for detailed footnotes, see the essay):
- How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory | Democracy Now!
- Everything Zohran Mamdani Has Achieved so Far - The HyperHive
- Mamdani Administration Bans Hotel Hidden Fees and Unexpected Credit Card Holds - NYC Mayor's Office
- Mayor Mamdani & Governor Hochul to Launch Free Child Care for Two-Year-Olds in NYC
- Trump meets Mamdani in the Oval Office: Winners, losers and takeaways
- Mamdani stands by his criticisms of Trump despite friendly White House meeting | PBS News
- https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1992033943508365429?s=20
- https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1991973831960117540?s=20
- Trump after having one conversation with Mamdani
- Counterinsurgency is Ideological/Psychological Warfare
- Fact check: Is Zohran Mamdani a communist? | Elections News | Al Jazeera
- Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress
- Socialist Faces in High Places: Elections & the Left
- Contra Contra: What does it mean to actually want power?
- Every Vote Is a Yes For Capitalism | Leftcom
- When Slaveowners Got Reparations | Department of African American Studies
- Homestead Acts - Wikipedia
- The end of a world of nation-states may be upon us | Aeon Essays
- “I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
- Socialists in City Hall? A New Look at Sewer Socialism in Wisconsin
- Bill de Blasio Did What New Yorkers Wanted
- Abductive reasoning - Wikipedia
- Fascism - an excerpt from Blood in My Eye by George Jackson
- Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument
- Egoism and Cooperation. Embody your egos, communally. | by DipperDesperado | Medium
- Popular Power People's Ability to Organise their Own Society
- The Strategy of Composition • Ill Will
- “ECOLOGY IS A SISTAH’S ISSUE TOO: THE POLITICS OF EMERGENT AFROCENTRIC ECOWOMANISM”
- Why I am a Materialist Transfeminist and not a Marxist/Proletarian/R*dical Feminist
- Audre Lorde: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
- Rebel Peripheries | Simoun Magsalin
- Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! - David Graeber
- 7. Insurrection and Communization | libcom.org
- Purity test (politics) - Wikipedia
- Dual Power: A Strategy To Build Socialism In Our Time
- What is Deep Canvassing? | NGP VAN
- Systemic Consensing - Wikipedia
- STAR voting - Wikipedia
- Anti-Capitalism, Mutual Aid, and Asset-Based Community Development
- On the Origins of the Professional-Managerial Class: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich
- Race, Class, and Empire: Reading J. Sakai’s ‘Settlers’
