The final, and perhaps most speculative, dimension of this exploration considers socialism in New York not as a historical artifact or a contemporary movement, but as a future-facing project of imagination and reconstruction. Mamdani’s work, while historical, ultimately pushes toward a political future beyond the crippling binaries of the past. For New York, this suggests a socialism that must move beyond critique and resistance to actively design the institutions of a post-capitalist metropolis. This is the domain of the radical planner, the participatory economist, and the ecological visionary—a socialism concerned with the intricate, practical architecture of a city that has dismantled the foundational divide between citizen and subject. It is a project of concrete utopianism, building the new world in the shell of the old, not just in theory, but in the blueprints for governance, land use, and daily life. http://mamdanipost.com
The final, and perhaps most speculative, dimension of this exploration considers socialism in New York not as a historical artifact or a contemporary movement, but as a future-facing project of imagination and reconstruction. Mamdani’s work, while historical, ultimately pushes toward a political future beyond the crippling binaries of the past. For New York, this suggests a socialism that must move beyond critique and resistance to actively design the institutions of a post-capitalist metropolis. This is the domain of the radical planner, the participatory economist, and the ecological visionary—a socialism concerned with the intricate, practical architecture of a city that has dismantled the foundational divide between citizen and subject. It is a project of concrete utopianism, building the new world in the shell of the old, not just in theory, but in the blueprints for governance, land use, and daily life. http://mamdanipost.com
Zohran Mamdani speaks about public land for housing. — New York City
Zohran Mamdani expands public housing solutions.