The Soapbox
Letters & the Internet Speaks (print only)
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“is this where we send in letters that get printed in the personals section of jacobin?”
— Moya Márquez, Los Angeles, CA
Winter 2017
Issue 24
Out Now
Nixon’s real crimes are not the petty ones of bribery and corruption which his fellow capitalists so hypocritically accuse him of. Our movement to dump Nixon must expose his real crimes against the people of Indochina, the Arab peoples and the people of Chile as well as the working and oppressed people here in the U.S. While these are not on Time Magazine’s or Senator Kennedy’s list of Nixon’s crimes, they must be added to our indictment of the Nixon government and the imperialist interests which he represents.
—“Dump Nixon! Stop the Fascist Tide!” The Call, Vol. 2, No. 3, December 1973
Cover Art
A healthy start to a nutritious magazine.
The Soapbox
“is this where we send in letters that get printed in the personals section of jacobin?”
— Moya Márquez, Los Angeles, CA
Party Lines
We must organize around ideas that give people something to fight for, not just something to fight against.
Friends & Foes
You can’t fight Herrenvolk populism with weak-tea liberalism.
Struggle Session
What kind of economic agenda does Trump have in store for workers?
The making of the modern Republican Party.
We got more graphs than Ross Perot.
Misery Index
Most of Donald Trump’s dream team walk and talk like run-of-the-mill Republicans.
The Vulgar Empiricist
It wasn’t just bad math that led us to believe Trump would be defeated. It was a lack of political vision.
A radical middle-class insurgency has stormed the Republican Party.
Out-of-context Gramsci quotes go here.
Bass & Superstructure
Songs from round one to inspire us to win round two.
Ways of Seeing
Inside every cartoon frog is a totalitarian screaming to get out.
Beyond a Boundary
As long as no one risks the league’s power or profits, the NBA can sell politics all the way to the bank.
Few states better illustrate the contradictions and failures of the Democratic Party than West Virginia.
We read things you shouldn’t read, so we could tell you what to read.
Canon Fodder
Buying these books really messed up our Amazon recommendation algorithm.
Field Notes
Behind Trump’s big economic promises is a lot of bullshit.
Dossier
The new GOP is fueled by some old think tanks.
Silvio Berlusconi’s tenure reminds us that the Left needs to attack the neoliberal center, not just the populist right.
Righteous haterade against the great enemies of proletarian progress.
Girondins
The Clinton establishment has every interest in obscuring why they really lost in November.
Thermidor
The new online right draws on transgressive aesthetics to rebrand conservative politics. It’s a contradiction that won’t hold.
Versailles
After months of denouncing Trump, the rich and powerful realize they could use some Donald in their life after all.
Trump’s victory signals a deep crisis of neoliberalism.
Our work here is not yet done.
Popular Front
With Trump in office, we need resistance, but also a credible alternative.
Means & Ends
We didn’t predict Trump, but we’re bound to get things right soon.
“What I’m doing is about as close
as you’re going to get
to the quality of Versailles.”
—Donald Trump