A Jacobin Primer
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- Issue No. 9
- Winter 2013
Modify Your Dissent
Farewell to the Working Class
Debtors of the world, unite?
Vague Strategy and Strategic Vagueness
There’s a reason designers describe their field in abstract terms.
Yours, Mine, but Not Ours
Why the politics of national security means that we're all living in failed Hobbesian states.
Strike for America: The CTU and the Democrats
How Chicago teachers took on neoliberal education reform.
Our Fiscal Cliff
Our big plans for 2013 and how you can help.
The Novel as Dictator
Why socialist realism loses out to avant-garde aesthetics.
One, Two, Many Chicago Teachers' Strikes
How an uncompromising spirit lead the CTU to victory.
Radicalizing Repression
How state repression sets off radiating outrage towards police, prosecutors, and the social order they produce.
She Can't Sleep No More
The political economy of Marissa Mayer.
The Soul of Student Debt
Not quite feudalism, student debt is a peculiarly capitalist form of social control.
Modify Your Dissent
On the rise and fall of the Baffler.
The Flood Next Time
Life after emergency.
The Red and the Black
Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
Sex House and the Refusal to Fuck
The problem for reality TV is that real life is too dull to make compelling TV, but compelling TV is obviously contrived.
Lean Production
Inside the real war on public education.