With the recent victory of Mamdani, I thought about sharing this video by Marxist-Leninist content creator Jones Manoel.
The whole video is in portuguese, but the automatic subtitles from youtube are pretty good here, with a few exceptions like getting a few names wrong and confusing “Hollywood” with “Dutch” for some reason.
Still, comrade Jones take seems pretty solid to me. He’s skeptical of Zohran’s actual power to enact any meaning change in NY, while also acknowledging the historical significance of his win as a Muslim and Palestine supporter, specially because it happened in the heart of the empire.
He also throws shade and criticism towards China and Vietnam in regards to the Palestinian genocide, which I think are well deserved, and since he is someone that constantly studies Brasil, and talks primarily to a Brasilian audience, he also talks about it in the context of the video.
What do y’all think about his take?
honestly, incredibly sober approach: not falling for the baseless naive excitement around Mamdani, but also not falling into the leftism perspective of minimizing it completely and disregarding it as an irrelevant event. plus, i think his criticisms levied towards China and Vietnam are very fair, and i tend to agree with his perspective, especially when he stresses the fact that, despite China’s planning being overall very long term, this is a highly time sensitive issue; people in Palestine cannot afford decades.
overall, excellent video, another W for comrade Jones