Chaos and Conviviality
Dip and Scooter discuss current events and culture, with an eye towards strategies for liberation.
Chaos and Conviviality
Mamdani’s not a Messiah
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On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip analyzes Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral win and the counter-insurgent nature of 'reform' strategies. Dip ends by proposing a bottom-up engagement that centers popular power.
See time stamps below:
12:30: Distinction between progressives and radicals
19:00: Radical reasoning is abductive
21:30: What do we do?
28:35: How do we relate to electoralism generatively?
32:50: Defining politics and power
38:50: Money as power via federations of cooperatives
44:50: The role of community assemblies
51:40: Highlighting the importance of addressing people's material needs
55:05: Summarizing Dip's proposed anti-electoralist electoral strategy
58:05: Discussing remaining questions to be answered
This conversation is adapted from an essay linked here.
Highlighted show notes (for full references/links, see the essay):
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- Contra Contra: What does it mean to actually want power?
- Dual Power: A Strategy To Build Socialism In Our Time
- Systemic Consensing
- STAR voting
- On the Origins of the Professional-Managerial Class: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich
- Race, Class, and Empire: Reading J. Sakai’s ‘Settlers’