So people in my org like Jacobin - I’ve never really read it but I’ve checked out their podcast and read a few articles and it all seems pretty weak. Is this just the best the US can do or is it actually a good periodical and I’ve just been exposed to the weak parts?
Jacobin is terminal Western leftism. Occasionally okay, it's mostly SocDem nonsense. It is the most fringe left wing thing imaginable to most liberals, too.
Jacobin is infinitely better than a lot of other western outlets simply because they haven't swallowed the Neoliberal Mantra of "There Is No Alternative" to the same extent as the mainstream press has. Like most people can sort of instictively understand how fucked the current order is (not really, but they understand the parts that fucks them), but neoliberalism has so royally fucked their worldview that nothing is seen as an alternative.
So people in my org like Jacobin - I’ve never really read it but I’ve checked out their podcast and read a few articles and it all seems pretty weak. Is this just the best the US can do or is it actually a good periodical and I’ve just been exposed to the weak parts?
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A broad spectrum ranging from ultra-Left backstabbers to social fascist backstabbers, but coincidentally skipping over the communists.
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They are about as communist as social democrats are socialist.
Jacobin is terminal Western leftism. Occasionally okay, it's mostly SocDem nonsense. It is the most fringe left wing thing imaginable to most liberals, too.
It's all over the place. They have good articles and bad articles.
It sucks.
It's widely regarded as the furthest left respectable publication.
This is respectable?
to reachable libs, perhaps
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Jacobin is infinitely better than a lot of other western outlets simply because they haven't swallowed the Neoliberal Mantra of "There Is No Alternative" to the same extent as the mainstream press has. Like most people can sort of instictively understand how fucked the current order is (not really, but they understand the parts that fucks them), but neoliberalism has so royally fucked their worldview that nothing is seen as an alternative.
A lot of their takes recently have sucked. They occasionally put something good out. This comes to mind