Jacobin magazine

30/12/2024

In the popular imagination, Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda” for US foreign policy. In reality, by the end of his term in office, he was paving the way for Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.

29/12/2024

The presidency of Jimmy Carter was deeply constrained by economic and political crises. His unwillingness to take a radical stance forced him to respond to these events by imposing austerity and doing little to strengthen labor.

29/12/2024

As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, like millions of my union sisters and brothers, I felt betrayed.

29/12/2024

In the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast “Confronting Capitalism,” Vivek Chibber discusses the difference between social democracy and socialism and how real change has been won in the past.

In the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discusses the difference between social democracy and socialism and how real change has been won in the past.

29/12/2024

How AMLO turned an anti-corruption campaign into an opportunity for economic redistribution.

29/12/2024

On this day in 1890, the US Army murdered as many as 300 Native American men, women, and children.

29/12/2024

The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history — destroying untold millions of lives and families in just a few decades. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created in the first place, and how we can finally dismantle it.

28/12/2024

Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects scrutiny from power by targeting the messenger.

28/12/2024

Andreas Babler’s election as leader of Austria’s Social Democrats last year raised hopes of a left-wing revival. But the euphoria has worn off, as the former Marxist has placed a show of “moderation” above the promises on which he campaigned.

28/12/2024

Jacobin's documentary, The Ecuadorian Candidate, chronicled the young leftist economist Andrés Arauz as he faced right-wing opposition and embarked on a journey to become the next president of Ecuador. It’s a gripping feature now available for free.

Jacobin's documentary, The Ecuadorian Candidate, chronicled the young leftist economist Andrés Arauz as he faced right-wing opposition and embarked on a journey to become the next president of Ecuador. It’s a gripping feature now available for free.

28/12/2024

Swedish Social Democracy is often idealized as a benign reformist force that delivered welfare to the grateful masses. Yet the Swedish social model was the product of conflict — and a working-class radicalism that the Social Democrats have now turned against.

28/12/2024

The New York Times’ David Leonhardt has written a compelling overview of the improbable rise and spectacular fall of the New Deal order. But he understates the difficulty in reviving a form of American social democracy.

27/12/2024

Today the Chabad-Lubavitch movement champions far-right religious zealotry under a messianic banner. But a century ago, left-wing Jewish thinkers like Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka understood messianic prophecy as foretelling universal liberation.

27/12/2024

After five decades in which successive governments have won office by committing, in some form or other, to weakening the powers of the administrative state, New York’s urban planner Robert Moses comes across as a deeply ambivalent character.

Fifty years after the publication of The Power Broker, the legacy of urban planner Robert Moses is ripe for revisiting.

27/12/2024

To win competitive districts, left-wing candidates must challenge both economic oligarchy and cultural elitism.

27/12/2024

Journalist Davide Maria De Luca has spent over a year living in Ukraine, routinely visiting the front lines. He writes for Jacobin about the remarkable privatization of the war effort, as Ukrainian units compete with each other for recruits and donations.

Years into the war with Russia, the Ukrainian state has not resorted to widespread nationalizations or labor conscription. Unlike the total war mobilizations of the last century, Ukraine’s war effort heavily relies on market mechanisms and civilian donations.

27/12/2024

The aims of the Left are impossible to achieve without community of purpose. Socialists organize around economic justice for a reason: it is the essential foundation for building a sense of solidarity broad enough to drive meaningful change.

27/12/2024

The liberal attempt to counter Rush Limbaugh failed miserably. We decided to find out why.

The liberal attempt to counter Rush Limbaugh on the airwaves was too little, too late.