There is a reason for victory. Zohrana Mamdania for the mayor of New York brought a breath of hope to millions of migrants, Muslims and the marginalized, above all it is a sign that it is possible to resist populist Trumpism and anti-immigration policies, but also the radically Republican rhetoric that has accused the current mayor of New York of being a man who sides with Hamas. Undoubtedly, There are two key enemies of the Palestinians in Gaza: Netanyahu's government and Hamas.
We will not be too hasty if we state the position that the countries on the edge of the EU are still only maintaining the original idea of what this great family of European states in the alliance should and must represent; however, instead of relying on the culture of irreducible difference as its foundation plus the emancipatory heritage as its guide, it has opted for big capital, for flirting with world banks, for, after all, the policy that sent to prison Sarkozy, with a pathetic farewell to the Marseillaise.
Aleksis Cipras was a shot at the left, the Syriza movement supported by Žižek do Berardi Bifoa, Varoufakis and many others, as a resistance to a Europe that turned its back on Greece, ended as an adventure of complete disappointment, although, let us remember that Alain Badju wrote a short but deadly incisive text about the impotence of the contemporary left, only to find out that he was right, much more than the one who was critical of that position Srećka HorvataSo, this is what we want to say: Zohran Mamdani, by defeating the Democratic candidate, is taking on an enormous responsibility, an unlimited investment from those who can only hope even though there is almost nothing or absolutely nothing to help them do so.
Therefore: 'hope without optimism', that is the heroism that modern and anti-capitalist politicians must take on, otherwise, it is a planted coward's egg!
The genocide in the Gaza Strip, the "denazification" of Ukraine, which has largely turned into the indiscriminate bombing of civilian housing, the massacre in Sudan - this is the denudation of power that shows what it is ready for, so the response to the testing of the most devastating bomb, the Poseidon, owned by the Kremlin, is found in the opening of the nuclear chapter that it ordered. TrampIt only remains to oppose everything - capitalism rages against the capitalism of ruthless exploitation and economic expansion by a few forces that claim absolutely everything for themselves: from the colonization of the Moon, through brain implantation, to brutal biopolitics.
Let's say that New York is a postmodern Babylon in which the hope was born that a different world is possible, despite the fact that (in Derridian terms) it is only possible as impossible. But what we really need is to get rid of - the pessimism of the village. But also: the greed for epithets that we inherited from the epic tradition, from the tribal oral transmission in which every story was only about our own, the chosen and the displaced, etc. Now, therefore, if we do not believe in this long twilight in the slow dawning on the horizon where all meaning has been shattered, then all is already lost.
The emergence of Zohrab Mamdani highlights that in these super-technological, empiricist and coldly rational times of pure calculation and political calculation, something of romanticism still survives in all of us, a hope that resists 'common sense', that instrument generated by the knowledge that arises in the service of the market, or science that is guided exclusively by the reproduction of capital. So, in New York we have a young politician as mayor who promises to put an end to Islamophobia and the exodus of migrants and/or war refugees, while, on the other hand, somewhere we have AI as ministers in a government that leaves the conduct of politics to technology, that is to say artificial intelligence.
Courage in hope without optimism
“You know the left thinks I’m conservative, and conservatives think I’m leftist or eccentric or whatever. I have to say that doesn’t bother me at all. But I don’t think that’s the way to shed light on the real issues of this century” (Hannah Arendt, Jewish writings).
I took this quote from the text Judith Butler (I simply belong to them.), in which, among other things, he identifies - nationalism and narcissism (here we could add a word that would undoubtedly be close to Arendt's - nar(r)cism), and, indeed, looking deeper, bringing this into connection is not just a purely theoretical arbitrary work.
Butler is greatly assisted in developing this thesis by Arendt, who attempts to think about the 'political community' in a fundamentally different way, which, in order to function without the pressure of nationalism, must be able to strengthen - ontology of individuality.
This insight is especially important today, as it turns out, when the project of creating a Greater Israel is underway, when America is deglobalizing and closing down, and Russia is showing tendencies to expand the territory it will gain through war. The EU is also looking for its share of the pie (its policy is currently not based on administrative-bureaucratic prolongation, on incomplete reports, chapters, points, amendments, etc., on delaying what is Kafkin genius recognized that 'I want a machine. which produces desire without wanting it), increasingly rapidly accepting candidate countries that are part of the NATO alliance.
But let's get back to what we are primarily interested in here, which is the following: Zorhan Mamdani vs. Trumpism, an unexpected twist that could really mess up the Republican administration and its apparatus, primarily the plans and projects they are leading, considering that the mayor of NY has openly sided with the persecuted and disenfranchised, who have been labeled as potential terrorists ever since the attacks on the Twin Towers, at the very least covert fundamentalists, so hunting them down tomorrow would not exclude the police from Spielberg's shooting minority report.
Yes, however, the liberal architecture of the West is not necessarily hypocritical, as Scholar Roj says and certainly has the right to do so, referring to the hell that is taking place in Gaza, as the NY mayoral elections showed, but this should not be interpreted as meaning that the West is 'cleansing' itself with these political moves in the face of the dirty past whose stain it bears on its image.
No matter how things develop, because it is not unknown to us that politics is not only the art of the possible, but also the art of betrayal, it is 'Macbethism' performed to perfection, and yet it should be heard. Bernard Shoa which says - 'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but also more useful than a life spent doing nothing.' - Or: The only choice worse than utopia is not to throw ourselves into it!
Just when things with Republican politics were reaching almost the peak of their absurdity - anti-immigration policy, the deployment of the National Guard to the streets of LA, the open humiliation of Europe (a terrible photo of the leaders of EU countries waiting in the White House hallway for Trump to receive them, who who knows what he was doing during that time, it is not excluded that he was applying powder or fixing his hair, so that the right-wingers would laugh out loud at all this, not knowing in their narrowed consciousness that the collapse of Europe also means the end of a civilization in which a constant struggle between good and evil has been waged for over 2000 years), pressure and agents in Greenland, the production of bombastic statements and Trump's inconsistency in everything, the economic war with China, a glimmer of hope appeared, in the person of Zohran Mamdani, a young politician who can start a revolution, since it is already a revolution that he is at the head of New York, a city that has more homeless people than Montenegro.
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