In 2013, several years before Bernie Sanders changed the American political landscape with his 2016 presidential run, socialist Kshama Sawant ran for Seattle city council — and won. Since then, she's accomplished much while facing an unending onslaught of attacks from all sides. Micah talked to Sawant about her time on the council and the lessons from her tenure for socialists everywhere.Read Sawant's piece in Jacobin about the attacks she has faced from the Right, capital, and the Democrats: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/kshama-sawant-seattle-socialist-city-council-recall-campaign-tax-amazonFor a look at what some of us on the Left were thinking about socialists and elections in 2013 after Sawant's victory, read Micah and Bhaskar Sunkara's In These Times piece "Can Socialists Win Elections in the US?": https://inthesetimes.com/article/can-socialists-win-elections-in-the-u-s

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