It's not really comparable though. This is a campaign running for an actual socialist party, Mamdani is a Democrat with a DSA endorsement. Maybe there's an argument to be made about the problems with socialists actually winning executive offices under a bourgeois democracy, but that's a separate issue.

What energy is it soaking up, and where could it be better used?

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Right. Anti-electoralists assume the energy spent on elections would go towards other types of organizing when in reality the people interested in elections doesn't overlap with people interested in other things.

I think of electoralism less as an either/or and more of a yes/and type of problem.