I hope he does well 
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If we must do electoralism. This is the way to do it. Win small, local elections and get the name out there, and if we’re lucky, the most media trained of us do interviews so while chuds are off doing chud shit and dems are out doing impotent rage, we’re the only ones with a serious plan for the country.
exactly. and even if we don't win this time around, our NYC comrades still build our base of support and our larger movement with the working class in a municipality where the contradictions of capitalism are at their harshest (poorest district in NYC iirc).
Hey I didn’t know PSL ran candidates, this is good
Yup! They ran a longshot campaign for president last year that I think was probably more about building awareness for the party. Claudia de la Cruz and Karina Garcia.
Yeah I knew they ran awareness candidates for the White House, voted for her in white in, but I did not know they ran candidates for lower office with serious chances
but I did not know they ran candidates for lower office with serious chances
trying to do this more and more in key communities as our numbers grow!
Good we need more communists taking the smaller seats of power across the country
I don't think congress is that small lol
Really great ad.
Much more excited by targeting congressional districts rather than the Senate run they announced. I hope that nyc dsa works with them and doesn't try to run their own candidate and it's all fighting each other while torres has an easy time.
I talked to a DSA guy at my local NKD (I am west coast and don't know how the character of DSA is different locally in NYC) but they said they consider endorsing candidates that they think can win and won't endorse candidates that they think have too small of a chance of winning or something? Which is why they wouldn't endorse PSL candidates usually (for example, they probably won't endorse Ramsey Robinson for governor unless he polls well I guess?)
I am excited for some of the races PSL is contesting though. I doubt we can win governor in CA, but Lalo Vargas is running for insurance commissioner and that has produced some amazing agitprop, especially among communities affected by the LA fires who are getting fucked by their insurance
That makes sense. It was my understanding that ny 15 was a district that people were looking at for a primary. I just don't want psl and dsa fighting over the same things, kinda waste of resources on the grand scale.
Yeah, I can see this district as a big prize though. I think DSA would endorse Andre if they think he can win, if not they still might launch their own candidate.
I hope that, at least in some instances across the country, DSA and PSL will co-endorse some candidates. I don't think they need to work together necessarily, and their goals are different, but nonetheless it would be nice to see a candidate win that was endorsed by both.
I guess I kinda disagree w only running in races you can win. I don't believe the extreme of running everywhere and getting 1% or something. I also see value in name recognition/recruitment getting like sizable chunk. Idk there's probably a deeper calculus to this that isn't really gonna get solved in hexbear comments.
Happy that that there is movement more generally.
Yeah I don't claim to know the DSA strategy entirely, this is just from talking to one dude. I don't know how they come to their conclusions about "who can win", it can't just be based on polling because at the start of the dem primary in NYC Zohran was polling at like 1%
But I do understand that DSA doesn't want to do campaigns that are purely for agitprop, like the PSL presidential run.
I hope this guy doesn't turn out to have a Nazi tattoo.
He's not a blackwater merc running as a Democrat, he's a revolutionary communist running in a leninist vanguard party
Yeah but what if he got drunk in Croatia once?
I mean that kinda sounds like something Marx would do.
Then he'd have 
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