Zohran Maoist arc in 2026 challenge
I should probably just block this comm lol
“Bad landlords” pre-supposes that there’s such thing as a “good landlord.” Anyways, long live Comrade Zohran, great follower of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought!
Chairmain Mao specifically accounted for good landlords. If you were a good landlord, your former tenants simply wouldn’t shoot you in the head!
In all seriousness, total land reform wasn’t what the cpc originally wanted. They sought moderate reforms in line with China developing capitalist productive forces. They sought to remove only abusive, reactionary landlords, but this meant peasants could only get land reform by accusing their landlords of being abusive reactionaries. The communist intelligentsia was unable to stifle the revolutionary peasant movement, and land reform took place at their pace.
but this meant peasants could only get land reform by accusing their landlords of being abusive reactionaries
Somehow I doubt they peasants had to lie about that very often, lol.
Nobody is saying you can’t go there and say exactly that 👁️👁️
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
More and more people are saying this
okay I said I’d never go to a protest but I think it’d be really funny to sit outside these with a giant guillotine and a sign labelling it “solution for bad landlords”
I said I’d never go to a protest
Why?
that’s not a protest, it’s support
Peoples’ Tribunals
The OG struggle sessions invoked community justice. They did with the landlords what the community willed, particularly those who had previously been forced to serve them.
What will happen as a result of community vent sessions on “bad landlords”?
For the govt it can’t just be about finding out who the most bad Ls are because that info is already easily available to them. A vent session can be helpful, but only if the proper follow up is planned.
In my most optimistic imagination they will be forums to strike committees that each have a municipal staffer assigned to them to report back to the mayor. Something like a neighborhood police liaison committee or whatever its called. Probably there would be a bunch of DSA people already planning in each zone. These areas are pretty large so should be broken up into smaller committees according to target L or geography.
If I was living in one of these neighborhoods I’d be inclined to attend for the cruising alone.
What will happen as a result of community vent sessions on “bad landlords”?
you kinda gotta get people together in a room talking about how shitty their landlords are if you want to get them to realize 1) they can do something 2) they should do something 3) they can organize to do that thing
I don’t think the landlords will be dealt with appropriately, but I think when you have the infrastructure to simply imprison them that’s much better than having them tortured or killed. It’s not really the best application of democratic principles to have what happens to a convicted person be decided by a group of their victims rather than have society broadly agree on standard procedures.
Obviously in Mao’s case with the land reform, he did not have such luxuries and relied on the victims of the landlords and other locals not because of some sort of moralizing logic but because managing such an overwhelmingly large project with frequently no infrastructure to facilitate coordination beyond dirt roads is unwieldy unless you just leave it up to the peasants to basically do as they will.
If we imagined that Zohran was a Marxist and had control of the police, the thing to do certainly involves mass arrests of landlords. This action is useful regardless because it’s not just about the landlords who get criticized (though them having their reputation publicly destroyed is a plus), but about using these stories as the basis for getting support for policies to prevent many common abuses and broadcasting quite loudly how past administrations allowed them to get away with such things and never bothered to ask people to publicly share their experiences like we see here, and how administrations in other cities are continuing to ignore such problems.
Ziohran Mossadani is bootlicking slime who does apologia for cops, but I think we should regard this campaign as potentially a good thing, though of course it depends on how Zohran and company actually administrates the campaign, since he certainly has shown himself as ready to squander potential for careerist reasons.
If we imagined that Zohran was a Marxist and had control of the police, the thing to do certainly involves mass arrests of landlords. This action is useful regardless because it’s not just about the landlords who get criticized (though them having their reputation publicly destroyed is a plus), but about using these stories as the basis for getting support for policies to prevent many common abuses and broadcasting quite loudly how past administrations allowed them to get away with such things and never bothered to ask people to publicly share their experiences like we see here, and how administrations in other cities are continuing to ignore such problems.
that “and” is very important. He’d need to do some serious purging to actually have control of the NYPD
Absolutely. There’s no way he tries and if he did he’d probably be shot, but without that there’s not much he could do for using his office directly for radical change.
I bet they go after a family member first.
Luigi?
The red squares look like guillotine blades
Mao’s policy notably only targeted “bad landlords”
That’s actually pretty accurate, and it wasn’t so much “Mao’s policy” as just what wound up happening as a result of peasant outrage mixed with suddenly being given agency and an ideological push to redress their personal grievances. It was as I understand limited specifically to the rural landlords who lived in or near their the villages their victims did, the people who’d most directly committed crimes against their tenants, while absentee landlords who lived in cities far from their estates were spared and often given deals where they willingly gave up their claims to their former lands in exchange for party membership and jobs as bureaucrats on account of the CPC of the early 50s being that desperate for literate workers that they made a lot of “oh, you can read? If you’ll take this desk job doing paperwork and make a gesture of good faith by voluntarily giving up your capital and land, we’re ready to forgive a whole lot of stuff you may or may not have done” concessions.
To be clear you said the “good landlords” were expropriated too, even if they got concessions?
I didn’t say “good”, just that the ones who weren’t personally doing their crimes seem to have mostly avoided punishment and received special treatment in exchange for going along with expropriation quietly.
Mao notably owned an iPhone.
Wow so he criticized capitalism but participated in it? Fucked up of him
Who are you fighting?
Capitalism? Imperialism? Are you not?
In seriousness, it was a joke at the people comparing Mamdani to Mao, not you, comrade
Social democrats
This ain’t Reddit.
I live in a supposed “social democracy”, nothing to do with reddit. You asked, and I answered.
I second the motion.
This statement is correct when taken sincerely
Only the baddies were targeted?
(Landlords are ontologically evil)
Landlord -> bad landlord
He was inside a slum on his first day as mayor, documenting the issues, and met with a tenant council. Politically I disagree with some of his positions of course, but he does really seem to care about especially the issue of rent and bad landlords. And its easy points to score with your constituents, no one likes their landlord.
I am also excited that the DSA-NYC is still pushing for stuff, they are trying to have a huge rally in Albany in a couple weeks to push for funding the Zohr-genda (taxing the rich)
This is me. I absolutely know better. I didn’t fall for it. I’m perfectly willing to drink the disappointment when he wants an Israel tax or something. But God strike me down if this isn’t neat.
I only see complaints about him on here but tbh he is approximately 1000% better and cooler than my current “liberal” mayor, for the public bathroom funding initiative alone.
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for the lesser evil”Yeah he’s had missteps but if every US politician was like Zohran we’d be in a much, much better place
liberals buried the bar in hell
Has he apologized for his tweet in sympathy for the cops that killed that guy having a mental episode in his own home, in front of his parents?
you have the right to be shot in front of a home you can afford!
You know the answer
I did actually think it was possible that he gave a bad and inadequate apology, though I certainly was not meaning to ask if he seemed serious about making amends for his wrongdoing.
Fair, but he only apologizes for being too left wing (cops, Maduro), never for being too right wing
Don’t forget backtracking on “globalize the intifada”
Certified Democrat Classic
you can’t always get what you want
but if you try sometimes
you’ll find
you get what you need
and some people want to take away taglines
Who?!
The girl reading this
good god, just offering a publicly supported platform for tenants to come together with grievances against landlords in the borough is some real shit.
i bet the vibe will be electric.
some real “We are the rhydo, kid. We’re the fuel. We’re the thing that explodes when there is too much friction in the air.”
The only kind of hearings I want are “speak bitterness” hearings, also known as the original struggle sessions.
