Very sleek stuff, but reading the analysis gives bad vibes - what is their deal? Trot stuff? Can someone give me a good workup (I'm lazy)?
They let all kinds of leftists write stuff, but the overall vibe is IMO more academic-brained bad rather than Trotskyist, trot vibes are a little bit funnier.
They let some dipshit write an article titled "Why socialists shouldn't abandon liberalism" or something lmao
Yeah! The vibe is so weird, I'll be looking at an elegant graph demonstrating income inequality and the next page is an article like that
It's academia brained "acceptable" socialist rhetoric. They are allowed to point out iniquities but when it comes to discussing What Is To Be Done 
they limit themselves to liberal electoral politics and cannot offer anything revolutionary because when it comes down to it they are almost entirely wealthy intelligentsia afraid of risking their cushy ivory tower positions.
wealthy intelligentsia
What's funny about this is that academics are cushy but they're not even close to the wealth and power of the bourgeoisie. Yet another case of a group of people captured by liberalism because they earn a bit more than everyone else.
Let alone Jacobin for a second:
You think getting one article placed in a magazine makes you wealthy intelligentsia? Lol how much do you think writers make?
Unless they are already independently famous as an author, or it's a mega publication, the author of most magazine articles you've read probably made somewhere between 2 and low-4 figures for weeks worth of work
Okay that's the bingo
That's a good point, like they allowed some nerd-brained dudes read the cliffnotes of Marxism and then locked them in a room with a high grade printer and the 1968 Encyclopedia Britanniaca
Bhaskar Sunkara created Jacobin specifically with the intent of making Marxism more academic and aimed at the intelligentsia.
If you think that sounds like an attempt to sequester Marxism away from the proletariat by concealing it with obscurantist language and focusing on topics that are divorced from the concerns of the working class in order to strip all revolutionary potential from Marxism, well have you ever considered that maybe Kautsky was right all along?
Bhaskar Sunkara created Jacobin specifically with the intent of making Marxism more academic and aimed at the intelligentsia.
Menshevism then
The name:
Jacobin
The character of the writing:
Narodnik
is that true? it's really not a very highbrow publication, and it's not like marxists need help being obscurantist
No, worse, Kautskytes: https://jacobin.com/2019/04/karl-kautsky-democratic-socialism-elections-rupture
How is anyone still a Kautskyite in the year of our Lord 2024?
I know one IRL, he's in local DSA leadership
Of course the DSA of all orgs would harbor modern Kautskyites.
Actually, Kautsky wasn't that bad 
orthodox marxists. Kautsky before 1910 was not bad and he published a lot of Engels writings
it's literally called Jacobin, they're liberals don't overthink this
I prefer Teen Vogue.
They come out on the side of the US state dept too often.
They have good takes and bad takes, when it comes to socialist advocacy I don't think Jacobin is really something worth getting upset over
Jacobin, don't you mean Yakubian?
they have everyone from liberals to soc-dems to actual communists
More like jack off in a bin
More like Jack-deez-nutz-abin
Ye Jacobin by name, give an ear, give an ear,
Ye Jacobin by name, give an ear,
Ye Jacobin by name,
Your fautes I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear, you shall hear
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear
To liberals you do bow, lend an ear lend an ear
To liberals you do bow, lend an ear
To liberals you bow, with avaricious caw
Your unbecoming trows bring your traitors heart to shew
Your base revision open and clear, yes it's clear. Your base revision open and clear
The poor you do betray, lend an ear, lend an ear The poor you do betray lend an ear.
The poor you do betray, with everything you say
Your articles to bray your contempt throughout the day.
Your editors are craven with fear, yes with fear Your editors are craven with fear.
Nice song, I think this is Scots...
Jacobin is by and large good. As another commenter pointed out, they give space to all kinds of lefties. That leads to some pretty lib takes now and then, especially in the online edition. If tendencial purity or hard-line anti-electoralism is your chief desire then sure, not for you. But I think generally it's good for promoting left unity, discussing historical and current events, propagating trade union news &c. It's probably the closest we've got to a mass left publication in the US.
I think it's pretty broad, has different kinds of leftist. Haven't read it much either (I'm lazy)
The glossy cover and infographics are cool, but reading the articles makes you go "huh?"
Ime they're often profoundly ignorant on anything outside the US, but I hear there's now a Lat Am franchise that is much better
It’s a magazine for ppl who don’t read, but think they’re smart.
Wish they were.
BTW anyone can send articles there so while i like to dunk on their shitty takes i think it would be more constructive if ppl just started sending in articles debunking the shitty takes (theres a good chance they wont publish them tho but then again there are other places you can send them).
What i want to say is, ive been in this space for about seven years and id love it if the relentless critiques people can muster up here would leak from the commentariat to the surface.
CIA. Look at what they say about Uyghur genocide. Same as democracy now which is the same as MSNBC which is the same as fox news which is the same as OAN.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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