Issue No. 35 | Fall 2019
From Socialism to Populism and Back
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Issue One: Oct.–Nov. 2010 Released
A day late, but loaded with sensuous content.
Weekly Sisyphus #1
Unpredictable transformations are taking place within the Chinese labor movement. How will US workers respond?
Book-Marx #2
Look what we dragged out of the cesspool…
Weekly Sisyphus #2
Is Europe entering the “Age of Austerity”?
Book-Marx #3
Because if coming up with a pithy one line opener is hard by edition three…
Book-Marx #5
Holiday merriment and feverish polemicizing mesh well.
Tainted Love
A review of Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
Introducing Jacobin
Why we exist.
The Politics of Being Alone
Life as a solitary struggle.
Resenting Hipsters
The fetishization of work feeds the politics of resentment. It’s time to instead embrace the language of economic and social rights.
Take This Job and Share It
The one-sided focus of most socialists on distributional questions has obscured the fact that the animating principle of the Left is not so much equality, but freedom.
Why We Loved the Zapatistas
The abandonment of Marxism had more than academic consequences.
Let Them Eat Diversity
On the politics of identity.
Feel Good Zionism
A review of Yitzhak Laor’s The Myths of Liberal Zionism.
Actually Existing Social Democracy
A review of Thomas Geoghegan’s Were You Born On The Wrong Continent?
Book-Marx #6
Early 2011 provides hope for both the Arab masses and freelancers earning 30 pence a word scribbling away about “Twitter revolutions” for the Guardian.
Book-Marx #7
Because there’s a whole 14.6 percent of the internet not consumed with Charlie Sheen…
Book-Marx #8
Some of the world’s ills, explained.
“And Yet It Moves”
A new mass of students and workers are actively engaged in class struggle.
Burn the Constitution
The pitfalls of constitutionalism.
Storm the Ivies!
A modest proposal.
In Defense of Grand Narratives
Restoring big ideas.
Pessimism of the Will
A review of Eric Hobsbawm’s How to Change the World.
Book-Marx #9
It’s getting warmer, Osama bin Laden is dead, bankers are creeps, and we’ve finally found time to update our blog.
End US Support for Bahrain
The following is a statement from the Campaign for Peace and Democracy. If you have not yet signed, please do so now at the CPD website.
Stephen Harper: All-Canadian Neocon
This piece was originally published at Paltry Sapien. It is republished here by its author.
The Jacobin Spirit
On violence and democracy.
The Bipartisan Assault on Home-based Caregivers
This essay original appeared in MRZine. It is republished here by its author. Steve’s “Beyond the Fields” appears in the Spring 2011 issue of Jacobin.
Advice from the NLF
Some of you should do one, and others should do the other.