Burning down the system sounds great until you’re starving in a mountain of your own waste.
I agree the current system is for shit and needs to be done away with entirely, but society is a little more complicated than Legos; smashing it down to start again costs a lot more than just time and even money.
Fiddling the knobs to make it manageable, proving he can do something in NYC of all places with all of that inertia, then possibly taking his platform bigger since he is a freshman politician fighting a 250 year old established system?
I’m not saying he’s perfect or above criticism. I’m also saying we can still be pragmatic.
but society is a little more complicated than Legos; smashing it down to start again costs a lot more than just time and even money.
Wow can’t believe Marx never thought of this, he literally just said everything would be perfect the very next day can’t believe he lied to me.
I’m also saying we can still be pragmatic.
The kind of pragmatic you’re supporting here is never going to adequately reform or incrementally replace the current system. I know this because it was tried many many times by even more radical social democrats than Mamdani and it never worked. To me revolution is the most pragmatic thing you can do.
I’m not expecting miracles from this guy I know he’s just a mayor even if it is one of the most important cities in the US and arguably the world but the way he’s speaking in a typical weaselly Democrat manner and by doing dumb shit like this doesn’t really make me super confident of his future success.
Burning down the system sounds great until you’re starving in a mountain of your own waste.
I agree the current system is for shit and needs to be done away with entirely, but society is a little more complicated than Legos; smashing it down to start again costs a lot more than just time and even money.
Fiddling the knobs to make it manageable, proving he can do something in NYC of all places with all of that inertia, then possibly taking his platform bigger since he is a freshman politician fighting a 250 year old established system?
I’m not saying he’s perfect or above criticism. I’m also saying we can still be pragmatic.
Wow can’t believe Marx never thought of this, he literally just said everything would be perfect the very next day can’t believe he lied to me.
The kind of pragmatic you’re supporting here is never going to adequately reform or incrementally replace the current system. I know this because it was tried many many times by even more radical social democrats than Mamdani and it never worked. To me revolution is the most pragmatic thing you can do.
I’m not expecting miracles from this guy I know he’s just a mayor even if it is one of the most important cities in the US and arguably the world but the way he’s speaking in a typical weaselly Democrat manner and by doing dumb shit like this doesn’t really make me super confident of his future success.