Is Jacobin worth subscribing to?

Yeah, modern leftist orgs and parties should hire whoever does the cover art. It's gorgeous and eye catching.

Are there any good leftist magazines, online or otherwise, that I should be checking out?

Jacobin, New Left Review, Viewpoint Magazine, sometimes Dissent even though they are liberals.

How's Current Affairs?

They're not lefty at all, but I'm honestly a damn big fan of Foreign Affairs. Straight facts from a centrist viewpoint– which can blind the analysis sometimes to enforce the status quo, but out of the big centrist magazines they seem the least blinded by their ideology.

Is it pro-Marxist or mostly succdem (Bernie tier)??
And do thy talk about past socialist ste exmaples (Ussr, China…) or do they think they were not socialist?

It's thoroughly Marxist albeit with some demsoc reformism.

They are not sympathetic at all to Stalinism, and they think that the Russian Revolution was good and that there is a lot to learn about what went well/what didn't from the USSR.

It is pro-marxist and everything they have written on social democracy is critical. They don't think the socdem class compromise is viable. They do support Bernie/Corbyn/Melanchon and are sympathetic to Left Reformism bc it seems like that's all that can work right now.

I don't read it frequently but I hear good things and they do have some good socialist writers. Personally though I am weary of the founder and the magazine doesn't help the Left in the same way Jacobin does, so I would never get a subscription.

No, it's an imperialist rag. Just read the few decent articles online.

Monthly Review

Imperialist because they don't promote your special brand of social democracy?

There online articles are generally worse than what they put in the magazine.

Found the twitter tankie.

Imperialist because they support sending weapons to Al Qaeda, and because their editor thinks the DDR was worse for communism than Nazi Germany.
twitter.com/sunraysunray/status/876087085945544706

Nothing wrong with that quote. Stalinist states were excellent in suppressing class struggle.

Just remember guys, a lot of people contribute to them and they often have varying views and opinions. Also> the online only articles really vary in quality but the articles from the actual journal are over all pretty good. Jacobin can also be a pretty good gateway drug for new comrades, especially former liberals.

If you care about things other than idpol you're idpol :^)

You know, you can be a leftist without considering marx to be infallible and the source of all anti-capitalist thought.

KYS

Idk what the people claiming idpol are talking about, Jacobin is pretty much a brocialist rag. Someone got me a subscription and its pretty good, the articles they run in the print edition are typically higher quality, but they do sometimes have takes that really piss me off, usually on foreign policy. They write really bad stuff about Syria.

And why do you think that is? Because it is an idpol rag with an idpol readership. Just because the people in charge have become aware of how cancerous idpol is does not change that.

So they are accused of being both brocialist and idpol? Nice.

Speaking of Monthly Review, does anyone here have the credentials to login to the online archive? Apparently there's just one account set up for the entire subscriber base and the credentials are listed in the back of the print issue.

Jacobin is probably one of (if not the most) anti-idpol publication(s) on the American left. Read the shit they've published by Cononor Kilpatrick, Vivek Chibber, or Shuja Haider.

Remiki Forbes he is the only full-time employee of the magazine.

That is such a ridiculous misrepresentation of what that tweet says. He is right, Stalinism was extremely successful at suppressing the class struggle because it claimed to speak in the Workers name.

Literally nothing makes it brocialist besides some of their dumb fans.

30 of your hard earned $$$ for a bunch of liberal BS.

NOPE!

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Under Stalin, the USSR engaged in one of the greatest class struggles in history, the struggle to defeat the Nazi imperialists.

Leftypol will never be accused for IdPol cause it never pandered to IdPol.

Ofcourse after you pander to IdPol they will turn against you! That's what IdPol is all about. Maotism in action. They are with you until you say one wrong thing.

Also, never forget it's made for US audience and YES it's bound to be even if partly liberal.

More proof of Jacobin's IdPol and "Can't we all just… get along?" SocDem.

It would do so and win under Trotsky also.
Stop fapping to the bank robber that couldn't command armies for shit.

They aren't liberal. $30 is pretty steep though.

Jacobin has MAJOR issues but it's the premiere left publication and deserves a wider readership.

When I get a job I'll subscribe.

They offer discount subscriptions periodically

This is the best reason to get it. It's very pretty, good for lending to people, and the money supports efforts to raise class consciousness. If you already have strong sectarian opinions about socialism, either you know enough that most of their articles won't tell you anything new, or you're an idiot and also won't learn anything.

I don't know what to tell you man.

commies being able to afford $30 a month?

I'm not saying if it's good or bad, all am saying is anyone with EU levels of ClassCon doesn't need Jacobin.

It's $30 a year.

Jacobin is literally just DNC propaganda with a psuedo-contrarian edge.

DSA is clearly a SuccDem organization, not interested in creating a socialist society, where the means of production are controlled by the workers. All they care about is giving black transwoman the right to shut down white men in their id-pol progressive stack.

Bullshit. They are cozy with DSA though.

Complete bullshit.

I bought the lifetime subscription.
honestly wish I hadn't. I'd much rather spend the money on an export model induction pressure rice cooker if I could do it over again.

Must be to make up for the lack advertising revenue. Can't imagine porky is stupid enough to advertise in a lefty mag.

Most of their shit is published for free online, right? Without a paywall.

I enjoy Jacobin. They hire writers who can write some damn good polemic shit