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Andom Ghebreghiorgis is running for Congress in NY-16 (Bronx) and, like AOC, we& #39;re meant to see him as a representative of electoral radicalism, friend of the poor, champion of the imperialized.
[This thread was on my old banned account. The trolls thought it went down the memory hole but I got it lol]
An attempt at a materialist analysis - and an exposure of yet another leftoid fraud:
An attempt at a materialist analysis - and an exposure of yet another leftoid fraud:
We were introduced to Andom through a blog post by Steve Salaita, to whom Andom& #39;s team reached out. This showed "poor judgment," Salaita noted, because of his own burned career as someone who refused to compromise on Palestine. https://stevesalaita.com/andom-ghebreghiorgis-and-the-limits-of-left-electoralism/">https://stevesalaita.com/andom-ghe...
It is a curious thing. Why would this upstart candidate be reaching out to a "disgraced" professor, now bus driver, to further his electoral chances? If I were looking to instantly burnish my renegade cred, I& #39;d run straight for one of the baddest boys on the left.
And he gets the traction he needs, for a minute. Salaita& #39;s credulous friends on Twitter take it all at face value. He gets RTs & amplification by ppl famous for claiming EVERYTHING is an op. It only lasts a few tweets, before others start checking on Andom https://twitter.com/cordeliers/status/1212032399246274562?s=19">https://twitter.com/cordelier...
Salaita& #39;s piece is obviously written by someone skeptical of the US "left" but I don& #39;t agree with his analysis. He claims Andom is markedly different than opponent Jamaal Bowman on foreign policy.
But the difference is mostly aesthetic: between someone who "supports BDS" (Andom) and someone who doesn& #39;t but agrees it& #39;s protected speech/political activity (Bowman). How would this play out legislatively? It wouldn& #39;t. It couldn& #39;t. It doesn& #39;t matter. It& #39;s smoke.
In fact, as we found out, contra Salaita, Andom is NOT a principled anti-imperialist. He pals around with US-backed political opponents of his parents& #39; home country of Eritrea. https://twitter.com/measure7x/status/1214269942599766016?s=19">https://twitter.com/measure7x...
