"Mamdani's campaign is unique and his success extraordinary in several respects: he went from polling at 1% to defeating his opponents by a landslide margin in just over one year; his campaign recruited over one hundred thousand volunteers, engaging first-time voters and immigrants typically overlooked or deliberately excluded from electoral politics; and his platform was centered on affordability-not only the most deeply felt issue for the vast majority of New Yorkers (and, increasingly, others around the country),"
"What, if anything, can contemporary analytic philosophy do to help us understand the phenomena at play in the Mamdani campaign? And likewise, how can political movements such as the Mamdani campaign better inform philosophical investigations into the social world? I don't want to take it for granted that most philosophers would accept uncontroversially that such phenomena (e.g., recruiting volunteers into political work, building a platform which speaks to the majority, navigating entrenched systems of corruption) fall under the scope of proper philosophical inquiry."
Zohran Mamdani rose from 1% polling to win the New York City mayoralty within about a year by mobilizing a vast volunteer force and winning broad voter support. His campaign recruited over one hundred thousand volunteers and specifically engaged first-time voters and immigrants who are often overlooked or excluded. The campaign centered affordability as its primary platform, directly challenging billionaire wealth and entrenched profit systems. Contemporary analytic philosophy can contribute tools for understanding recruitment, platform formation, and engagements with power. Political movements can reciprocally inform philosophical inquiry by presenting complex social phenomena that demand refined social-ontological theories.
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