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people are trying to fit lula and melenchon and mamdani and other libs-n-lefts into a kind of "left-nationalism against americanized right-wing fascist internationalism" but it's more accurate to say this tendency is a kind of urban cosmopolitanism against a brotherhood of nations under us hegemony

lula built support on the urban poor against the brazilian landlord agribusiness sector, mamdani's campaign mobilized across the city's cultural internationalism, melenchon's nouvelle-france embraces creolization - the right wing's "internationalism" is nationalist homogeneity against

the fear of "the city being a degenerate mix all over the world"

may very well be the crucial linkage - these heterogenous internationalizing & proletarian city-areas act as connection points for the planetary supply chains that require planetary political coordination rather than politics limited at borders, whether you see them as

that the largest concentration of proletarianized activity lies at transition gradations between city cores and the landed-wealth properties of suburbs or agribusiness or resource extraction, etc

now the issue of course is you can't take the city as-is as the geographic subject against the nation because cities are, as we know whether you like mao or lefebvre or harvey or bookchin, not somehow magically post-capitalist post-national entities and on the contrary are as much a locus

of capital and state power and nationalist mobilization in defense of such, or the primary agents of extraction and settlerization. the focus ought not to be the fetish for the city but rather the social relations that are emergent from the flows through the