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EPISODE · Dec 4, 2025 · 1H 41M

Zohran Mamdani

from Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture · host Love is the Message podcast

It’s Mamdani time! On this episode of the show we’re bringing things right up to the here and now to celebrate New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. Tim and Jeremy recount the emergence of Zohran as a political figure, his background and parents, his democratic socialist politics and what his election means for the Left and anti-imperialism more broadly. We also hear a potted history of the DSA, consider the particularities of Left Populism as a contemporary political tendency, spend time with Bernie and de Blassio, and appraise a couple of the incoming mayor’s early rap tracks.Edited by Matt Huxley. Become a Patron at Patreon.com/LoveMessagePodwww.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/Tracklist:Sunidhi Chauhan - Dhoom Machale Young Cardamom, HAB - #1 Spice Mr. Cardamom - Nani Lil Wayne - Right Above It Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell The Temptations - Smiling Faces Sometimes Books:David Harvey - A Brief History of NeoliberalismBarbara Ehrenreich - Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy 

It’s Mamdani time! On this episode of the show we’re bringing things right up to the here and now to celebrate New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. Tim and Jeremy recount the emergence of Zohran as a political figure, his background and parents, his democratic socialist politics and what his election means for the Left and anti-imperialism more broadly. We also hear a potted history of the DSA, consider the particularities of Left Populism as a contemporary political tendency, spend time with Bernie and de Blassio, and appraise a couple of the incoming mayor’s early rap tracks.Edited by Matt Huxley. Become a Patron at Patreon.com/LoveMessagePodwww.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/Tracklist:Sunidhi Chauhan - Dhoom Machale Young Cardamom, HAB - #1 Spice Mr. Cardamom - Nani Lil Wayne - Right Above It Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell The Temptations - Smiling Faces Sometimes Books:David Harvey - A Brief History of NeoliberalismBarbara Ehrenreich - Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

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