ppl comparing mamdani's win to obama's are closer than they realize in that each are maneuvers to use "representation" exclusively to rehabilitate the democratic party & faith in the usa & electoral politics. your "joy" is the fabric that weaves together counter-revolution.

@unityoffields I ran across this on threads earlier today and it resonates. Open Letter to the White Left in the U.S. By R. Dhoruba Moore and Frank Khalil Abney of the Black Liberation Army (B.L.A.), dated 1985

Our cause must be defended against these attacks if we are to protect our ability to organize around these values at all. It's this or acquiesce to the narratives and institutional structures of collaboration, which are the organizational basis of Mamdani & the social democrats.

Those of us opposed to capitalist immiseration of the natural world & imperialist genocide can't afford to be confused here. There are fundamentally different narratives & politics at play. There is either resistance or collaboration. The two cannot live in the same mvt.

They think they've “won.” As with Obama & Biden & Sanders & AOC, the victory is illusory. The paint of bad faith principles is peeling off Mamdani, and betrayal “in power” will demobilize their own organizing, as their negotiations flounder due to larger dynamics of capitalism.

And so the mission of the social democrats since 2023 has been to channel the mvt back into their comfort zone, to make resistance less relevant & economic negotiations more central to political discourse. It has been an insidious attack on resistance and solidarity.

The Palestine movement caught these opportunists flat-footed, precisely because it asserts a different set of values and a narrative that runs counter to the politics of social democracy. How does economic negotiation address genocide?

The Mamdani campaign isn't the first time social democrats have attempted to co-opt the Palestine movement, to “electoralize dissent.” They exposed themselves attempting the same operation at the 2024 DNC, seeking to regain "engagement" & channel the mvt to the Harris campaign.

Encouraging confusion on these principle differences is social democracy in action, which aims to replace revolutionary political aims with economic negotiation and collaboration.

The social democrats argue that the betrayal is worth it in order to win bussing and limits on rent increases. But these are fundamentally two different sets of principles, two different narratives, and so two different bases for organizing.

The Mamdani campaign is exactly that. They have betrayed opposition to israel and zionism. They have hung the movement out to dry. And they have made common cause with institutions of brutality (the NYPD). This is explicit. Mamdani has already made these commitments.

Mamdani, far from being an achievement or victory for the Palestine movement, is a profound betrayal. The most important parts of any movement, the essences of its organizational capacity, are its principles & narrative. To betray these principles is fundamentally disorganizing.

The Mamdani campaign and its narrative aftermath are an exercise in counterinsurgency – they are being used to co-opt resistance narratives and political passions back into institutional paths and narratives. It is pacification. 🧵

Tailing the tail tailing the demokratic party we are in hell

This is opportunism in every sense of the word.

Social democracy cannot serve as a true alternative to capitalism. It appears attractive on the surface but is built upon deep contradictions that eventually collapse under their own weight. At its core, social democracy seeks a balance between capitalist profit motives and

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Rather than redeeming the mvt for Palestine, Mamdani's election is a betrayal, fully exposed in one fact: Jessica Tisch, the same person who led the crackdowns on Palestine protesters and pioneered post 9/11 mosque crawling in NYC, will be reappointed as police commissioner.

Rather than redeeming the mvt for Palestine, Mamdani's election is a betrayal, fully exposed in one fact: Jessica Tisch, the same person who led the crackdowns on Palestine protesters and pioneered post 9/11 mosque crawling in NYC, will be reappointed as police commissioner.

The exposure is not just in the blatant rewriting of history, but in what is left out. Mamdani has taken sides w/ the ppl & institutions that have directly attacked the mvt. IOW, he has already betrayed the aspirations he rode into office, making a mockery of the above narrative.