Remarkable reporting on China’s intense system of payoffs and threats of NYC politicians to toe their line on Taiwan and Hong Kong. And such an exquisite irony here regarding Zohran Mamdani versus the scared conservative corrupt New York establishment. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...
2/2 The world’s most effective tyrannical anti-democratic regime, still calling itself “communist,” is using corrupt Mayor Adams to oppose democratic socialist Mamdani—who Adams’s & Cuomo’s buddy and ally Donald Trump absurdly calls "a 100% Communist Lunatic.” It’s Chinatown, Jake.
Way WAY back in high school, I read a book by a democratic socialist named Steven Kelman about his visit to East Germany in the 1970's, titled "Behind the Berlin Wall", wherein, among other things, he confirms, or re-confirms, that democratic socialists and social democrats....
...have always been two of the categories of people that throw Communists the most into a frothing frenzy of rage and fear. (Remember how, infamously, the German Communists repeatedly sabotaged any attempt to join forces with the Social Democrats against the Nazis, sneering at them...
...as "Social Fascists".)
Scared Democrats too - why won't party leaders endorse the Democratic nominee? Between China on one side and AIPAC on the other, it's not in the interest of New York. What's an independent thinker to do? Zohran Mamdani for Mayor. Thanks for sharing the article.
@adamtooze.bsky.social @onesandtooze.bsky.social Any thoughts about this supposedly “communist” country that is allegedly paving the way for a better, greener future actively sabotaging an actual democratic socialist? Maybe China is more state capitalist – even fascist – than communist after all?
Now do aipac