There is a hunger for bold, transformative politics in the United States right now. Zohran Mamdani shows how the Left can run on a principled, disciplined message that speaks to voters’ lived concerns — and win.
any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
Not anyone. Billionaires will not be helped by this.
You may be confusing democratic socialism and social democracy. They are similar in their short-term goals, but democratic socialist have fundamental economic reform as their long-term goal, while social democrats just want to curtail the social problems of capitalism.
No true Scotsman nonsense. Different flavor of the same dessert. There is no pure “socialism,” it’s implemented differently in different places with different tags of all kinds.
It’s socialism but with democratic processes/participation at its core. Economic theory is basically the same.
Socialism = anything that helps anyone.
Got it.
I mean, yeah, that’s the problem that a lot of political commentary has right now, but Mamdani is explicitly a member of the DSA.
Not anyone. Billionaires will not be helped by this.
He’s literally a socialist lol he is explicit about it
Yep, he is a Democratic Socialist which is actual socialism, unlike Social Democrats who are still capitalists.
Democratic socialist ≠ socialist
You may be confusing democratic socialism and social democracy. They are similar in their short-term goals, but democratic socialist have fundamental economic reform as their long-term goal, while social democrats just want to curtail the social problems of capitalism.
No true Scotsman nonsense. Different flavor of the same dessert. There is no pure “socialism,” it’s implemented differently in different places with different tags of all kinds.
It’s socialism but with democratic processes/participation at its core. Economic theory is basically the same.