chapotraphouse

Man I am as cynical as the next 40 year old anarchist, but the amount of people shitting on Zohran because he didn't literally say "Death to Israel, Death to America, unlimited genocide on the first world" when being hounded by liberal journalists for a damning soundbite has been so fucking tiring.

I just start asking these people "Do you actually live in Palestine? Or are you just an edgy baby ML speaking over actual Palestinians?"

And sure him winning the mayoral race won't fundamentally change anything on that front materially, but it's a pretty good indication of a major sea change in US politics and a rare opportunity to push people further left. I think much like the liberals think somehow electoralism alone will magically improve things, a lot of western communists are content waiting for someone else to start a vanguard for them while they smugly play armchair revolutionary from the sidelines.

I am not saying their analysis is necessarily wrong when they point out that he's still no Lenin but like look where we are. Nobody in places like this are under any illusion that he is actually a revolutionary, it's just nice to see someone with at least a baseline of correct politics to get a victory in this fascist shithole.