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

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s8ewr-1b4ade9

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