2026-09-25 12:49 UTC
That doesn’t mean he’s controlled opposition, it means he’s a social-democrat who’s experiencing the limitations of what you can do within the structures of the capitalist state. This is why Marx and Lenin empasize the necessity of breaking down the old state, and building a new one.
The police of the old, bourgeois state will not simply accept a progressive leadership, it will continue to act against the interests of the working class, whoever their ofiicial boss is.
A similar thing just happened in Germany: Die Linke won the Berlin state elections. Their platform included that the growth of the police budget should stop, and there are now multiple newsstories going around filled with anekdotes about how they won’t be able to do their job under a Die Linke administration.
This behaviour is to be expected of the police in these circumstances, it does not mean Mandani is secretly controled by the CIA.
Replies (4)
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@Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 2026-09-25 13:10
it means he’s a social-democrat The commie killers?
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@into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 2026-09-25 17:25
being a social-fascist makes you controlled opposition. regardless of whether he has a cia handler or just a dnc handler, mamdani materially supports the continuation and expansion of empire. an fdr for the modern day.
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@chobeat@lemmy.ml 2026-09-25 17:55
online larpers performing opinion politics rather than active politics hate nuance. It’s pointless to argue with them. Just let them rot in their forgotten corner of the internet. There’s a future out there to win.
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@Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 2026-09-28 09:45
You don’t need to be a CIA agent to be a class traitor to the labor and anti-colonial movement . Being a Social Democrat is enough.