Mamdani is not our government

The Marx United States

The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City is one of the most significant events in American history. Given that Mamdani identifies as a "socialist," his victory in the "capital of capitalism ," home to Wall Street and the corporations that dominate the global economy, is, on the one hand, what The New York Times described as a "wave of discontent against the system ." On the other hand, Mamdani's victory underscores what we at the Marx International have been asserting: that there is a leftward shift among mass sectors of the world, and that this leftward shift has its epicenter in the United States.

This leftward shift of the world's masses is denied by 99% of the global left. Even the political movement to which Mamdani belongs, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), denies this phenomenon, speaking instead of a "global rise of the far right." But Mamdani's own electoral victory is a slap in the face to those who promote the "global rise of the right" narrative ; it's a slap in the face to what the leadership of the movement to which Mamdani belongs proclaims. The reality is that if there were no radicalization and leftward shift of mass sectors worldwide and in the United States, it would be impossible for a candidate who identifies as "socialist" to win mayoral elections in the world's capital in a bourgeois democracy.