"All Mamdani’s socialist bonafides cannot change the fact that he will be governing from within a capitalist system—or more specifically, that he will be the mayor of the financial command center of the global capitalist economy. But Mamdani’s opponents are not the only ones who can harness structural power, be it through new organizations like Our Time or legacy ones like the Met Council on Housing, New York’s longest-standing citywide tenants union. Though Mamdani’s opponents might have booby-trapped the rooms, that does not preclude his supporters from building their own barricades across the city.
New York City in 2026 may not be the ideal time and place to advance socialist housing policy, but this is how history proceeds. The keys to the house of government will soon belong to Mamdani and all the organizers who brought him to this point. If they are to succeed, they must enter with their eyes wide open to the traps laid before them."
https://jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamdani-vs-the-real-estate-state
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