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As far back as Aristotle, Western thinkers have been deeply critical of the power that the wealthy hold over society. Historian Guido Alfani sat down with Jacobin to discuss the long history of opposition to elite power in Western politics and religion.
About Us - Jacobin
Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 75,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 3,000,000 a month.
The Center Cannot Hold, and It Doesn’t Seem to Care - Jacobin
2 days ago · Centrist politicians once based their whole pitch on the claim to possess “electability,” but now they can’t offer a sustainable formula for beating an increasingly militant right. They only develop a sense of urgency for the fight against the Left.
The Essential Guide to - Jacobin
Dec 30, 2023 · Jacobin has been publishing in print and online since late 2010. In case you haven’t been with us for that long — or if you need a refresher — we’ve compiled a list of essential socialist reading on politics, economics, history, and more from our archives.
Why Is Health Care Reform Absent This Election? - Jacobin
Despite polling consistently showing that voters are deeply concerned about medical care and its costs, neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris is offering a sweeping vision of health care reform.
New Podcast: Vivek Chibber’s Confronting Capitalism - Jacobin
Dec 4, 2024 · Confronting Capitalism, a new Jacobin podcast hosted by Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber, starts from a basic premise: if you want to go beyond capitalism, first you have to understand why it is such a powerful and resilient system of social domination.. To do that, we need more than talking points and reports on the daily news cycle. Confronting Capitalism cuts through the chaos to provide a ...
Reckoning With the Left’s Many Failures - Jacobin
Nov 1, 2024 · Adapted from remarks delivered at the 2024 New York City Democratic Socialists of America convention. In assessing the current political moment, one basic fact is very clear: we on the Left have failed.
We Need an Honest Assessment of CAW and Unifor Strategy
2 days ago · While we appreciate that our book about the Canadian Auto Workers, Shifting Gears, is generating discussion and debate in labor movement circles, we cannot let Jim Stanford and Fred Wilson’s review of the book go unchallenged, as they misrepresent our key arguments and their implications for labor and working-class politics. Before addressing the substance of the review, it’s important to ...
Jacobin Is 13 Years Old. Get or Gift a Subscription to Support Our …
Sep 17, 2023 · Jacobin has now been in print for thirteen years. That means thirteen years of publishing with the goal of revealing the truth about capitalism — a system based on exploitation and the degradation of the human spirit — and thirteen years of offering a vision of a real alternative to it, socialism.
What You Should Have Read in 2022 - Jacobin
Dec 31, 2022 · We published 2,500 original essays in 2022. Here’s a recap in case you missed one or two of them.