Party Lines
The Exercise of Power
Bhaskar Sunkara
It should be remembered that the political education of Social Democracy, before the Revolution, was in one respect materially deficient. We had learned how to be an opposition. We had to take over Government, and that in the fullest sense; in industry, in the localities, in the State. The task had been studied, it is true, but theoretically, from the outside. We are only now beginning to see it from within. Our previous studies have proved anything but superfluous; indeed, they have been our best guides. But they are insufficient.
Bhaskar Sunkara
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A conversation with SETH ACKERMAN, LIZA FEATHERSTONE, MATT KARP, and MATTHEW YGLESIAS
As 2020 approaches, Jacobin indulges in some crass Sunday morning horse race punditry.
Shawn Gude
Elizabeth Warren’s political tradition is the left edge of middle-class liberalism; Bernie Sanders hails from America’s socialist tradition. Don’t confuse the two.
Socialists throughout history have understood that holding office is not the same thing as winning power. Working people can only entrench their victories through a fight to change the state itself.
by David Broder
Matt Bruenig
Raising kids should be a joy. But in the United States today it often means poverty and stress.
Matt Bruenig
Corporations are making record profits. That’s money we could use to lift millions out of misery.
Richard Seymour
Europe Since 1989 is a book about neoliberalism in Europe written by someone who doesn’t know what neoliberalism is, and hasn’t really paid much attention to Europe.
Bernie Sanders
Here's Bernie Sanders in his own words — from denunciations of US militarism to his prediction that “within a decade, Mississippi could become one of the most progressive states in the country.”
A CIA report from November 1967 reveals the agency’s deep fear of Swedish social democracy, and its rising star Olof Palme.
Within the Existing Constitutional Framework, What Could A Future Left-Wing President Do If They Had a Popular Mandate, but Faced a Hostile Congress?
by Meagan Day
by Peter Gowan
The Welfare State Isn’t Enough. A Sanders Government Needs to Pursue Policies that Diminish the Power of Capital and Radically Democratize the Economy.
by Kalewold H. Kalewold
Forget socialist democracy; by virtue of its Constitution, the United States barely has political democracy. If we take expanding democracy seriously — and if we want to implement sweeping social reforms — we need some serious changes.
Eileen Jones
Vice reminds us of the hell Dick Cheney wrought, with help from a rogue’s gallery of perps, hacks, creeps, and fall guys.
Owen Hatherley
The architect Philip Johnson had some good qualities. He was also talentless, a fascist, and a liar.
Ben Davis
The communist Charles White created images of dignity to portray America’s working class. Now, forty years after his death, his art is back in the mainstream.
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MMT is billed by its advocates as a radical new way to understand money and debt. But it’ll take more than a few keystrokes to change the economy.
Doug Henwood
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Dawn Foster
Corbyn’s experience is proof: if the media won’t give the Left a fair hearing, they can be circumvented.
We went looking for our favorite Obama and Clinton campaign alums. We found them in corporate America.
Liza Featherstone
As long as the upper middle class exists, it’s going to be at best ambivalent about our program.
Branko Marcetic
In 1975, the Queen’s loyal representative, governor-general John Kerr, decided he’d had enough of Australian social democracy.
Luke Savage
If Canada’s NDP is to have a future, it needs to rediscover its militancy.
Ronan Burtenshaw
It’s a reminder that the state is not neutral, and the ruling class has more than capital strikes at its disposal.
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