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Bob Buzzanco on the Trump victory

Bob Buzzanco is a leftist professor at the U. of Houston Donald Trump was opposed, vigorously, by Wall Street, by the media, by the ruling class, by other mega-billionaires like Cuban, Buffett, Gates....

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Rand Wilson’s road to Damascus-like conversion to the Democratic Party

Rand Wilson If I was a conspiracy theorist like many on the left, I’d suspect that the glowing tributes to the fresh-faced Marxism of Bhaskar Sunkara’s Jacobin Magazine in the bourgeois press are a...

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Left Strategy for the 2020 Elections and Beyond: a critique

Bill Fletcher Jr. Carl Davidson Long-time supporters of an “inside-outside” approach to the electoral shell-game that veers sharply to the inside, Bill Fletcher Jr. and Carl Davidson promote a “A Left...

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A Jacobin/DSAer’s Red Herrings

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question, according to Wikipedia, which also states that the term was popularized in 1807 by English polemicist...

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Stanley Aronowitz: the father of the “dirty break”?

Stanley Aronowitz Just a few days ago, I got a copy of “The Lesser Evil”, a Pathfinder book that has the debate between Peter Camejo and Michael Harrington that unfortunately never got posted online,...

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Reflections on the Samuel Farber/Todd Chretien exchange

Samuel Farber Todd Chretien On June 30, Samuel Farber wrote an article for Jacobin titled “What Revolutionary Socialism Means to Me” that was probably the first one I ever agreed with even if it...

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Biden’s transition team: neoliberalism incarnate

COUNTERPUNCH, SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 On September 5th, Joe Biden added four new members to his transition team, which was not really a team. It consisted only of Ted Kaufman, the 81-year old Democratic...

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Eric Blanc endorses Joe Biden

Eric Blanc The first time I came across Eric Blanc’s writing was in 2016, when his article “Anti-imperial Marxism” was making the rounds. It was an important contribution, arguing that the “lesser...

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Eric Blanc, Leo Panitch, and the Popular Front

Toward the end of the stellar Cosmonaut interview with August Nimtz on Lenin’s views about electoral politics, the principals try to relate it to the current day. They concur that there’s more than a...

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The use and misuses of Ralph Miliband: a reply to Chris Maisano

Ralph Miliband As a member of the Bread and Roses DSA caucus, which functions as an informal think-tank for Jacobin, Chris Maisano shares the heavy lifting of producing ideological justifications for...

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