Zohran Mamdani Wants You to Do More Than Survive
Our comrade won because he told New Yorkers they deserve it all — love, leisure, pleasure, sport.
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Municipal Socialism
“Our greatness will be anything but abstract. It will be felt by every rent-stabilized tenant who wakes up on the first of every month knowing the amount they’re going to pay hasn’t soared since the month before. It will be felt by each grandparent who can afford to stay in the home they have worked for, and whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of childcare didn’t send them to Long Island.”
“In left-wing social centers and popular bars in rural Tuscany, there are still those who remember Inti-Illimani bringing its message of defiance from Chile.”
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From Milwaukee’s sewer socialists to La Guardia’s New Deal metropolis, urban reformers changed their cities by forging alliances beyond local power.
When the Leaning Tower Leaned Left
In the 1970s, the Italian Communist Party was again on the rise in Tuscany. Then it all toppled over.
“While Livingstone had seized power in what was effectively a palace coup, planned and orchestrated by a handful of activists, his administration was defined by a radical redistribution of power and resources.”
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“Amid the economic depression of the 1870s, New Yorkers came to feel that residents who contributed to the local economy, not real estate firms, were the real engines of prosperity.”
Cultural Capital
“Fascist violence engendered political crises that only served to justify indefinite prefectural control or the replacement of elected officials with royalist or Fascist proxies.”
“The goal isn’t to freeze a community in time. The goal is to create a community where people can thrive. ”
“The fiscal challenges should be taken seriously, but they need not lead to despair.”
