If it was DSA by itself, I would probably be less nervous about him, but it's also the Democratic party he's entering, which is a den of snakes. These guys aren't running as Dems, which unfortunately probably also means they'll get a lot less attention.

But the positive side is that attention they do get will funnel people to actually socialist parties, and not the Democratic Party.

communists, the struggle session treatlers!

Yeah, these PSL candidates and Sawant running as a Trot(?) are completely different for the simple reason that the orgs they are running on behalf of are at least nominally socialist while Mamdani is running on behalf of a party that once thought slaves were happier as slaves and slaves who ran away from their masters suffer from a mental disorder.

I don't even think the pathetic idea that you could infiltrate bourgeois parties in the vain hopes that you can "flip" them counts as electoralism. Actually existing electoralism is doing the hard work of building your own political party from the ground up. MAS was build from the ground up, and when MAS betrayed the masses who build it for them, the party was unceremoniously abandoned and left to rot.

The only exception is Corbyn except that Labour started out as a socialist-leaning party. He was fighting for the soul of the party, and when he lost out to the Blairites, he's now doing the hard work of building his own party. Perhaps it's a political miscalculation to think that Labour could be saved, especially given that Labour never did anything to stop British imperialism, but there's nothing worth saving about a party that once thought slaves were happier as slaves and slaves who ran away from their masters suffer from a mental disorder.

Ah but have you considered ?

Just use the shorthand; it's easier, #THOAHESTHOCS, and hip with the youth, iykyk.

Unironically better than what was in the post.

California is such that a local race here is bigger than a state scale race in terms of our intuition. this a multifaceted situation.

Why so quiet about it?

Yes. Specifically to "count their numbers" as a means to gage their overall support. There were also legal benefits that came with electoral status, such as party immunity for Pravda, their party paper. The electoral process was also needlessly complicated and highly undemocratic. The Tsar wanted nothing to do with the Duma, it was basically symbolic. Eventually the Tsar broke its own promises of immunity, which was a catalyst for advancing the revolutionary movement.

Counting your numbers still has value. Under American electoralism you have the potential for free messaging through interviews and debates that allow you to spread your socialist agenda. Compared to the Tsarist system, American electoralism is vastly more democratic, but obfuscates its most undemocratic elements by the massive influence money plays in your reach and success. Despite that, it allows you to recruit "professional revolutionaries" into the party, and use electoralism as a means of educating the backward masses on what socialism actually is.

but maoist