/558/ Sewer Socialism, or Left in the Toilet? ft. Ross Barkan

On Zohran Mamdani.

Writer Ross Barkan, author of The Revolutionary on the New York mayor, talks to Ryan Zickgraf and Alex Hochuli about what Mamdani means for the Left.

• How did Mamdani mute cultural progressivism to focus concentrate on rent, transport, childcare and food?

• Is municipal socialism part of a strategy to rebuild national power, or is it a retreat to the cities after the failure of Bernie?

• Is the New York strategy replicable elsewhere in the US?

• How is Mamdani different from AOC?

• Is Mamdani a populist, not a socialist?

• Is the rentier, rather than the worker, the subject of politics?

Links:

• Zohran Mamdani and the Remaking of American Politics, Ross Barkan

• Ross Barkan on Mamdani and where DSA goes from here, Current Affairs

• The New Socialist Revolution, Ross Barkan

• NYC-DSA endorsement and platform overview

• How Mamdani used social media to build a movement, The Washington Post

• Brandon Johnson: Sewer Bill socialist, Ryan Zickgraf