What happened to their radicalism?

What happened to their radicalism?

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Got get them clicks

They became more interested in writing shitty articles about movies/pop culture than getting people to write theory-filled pieces.

They are at least Class > identity type of left
jacobinmag.com/2016/07/left-class-racism-identity-struggle-oppression/

so that is that i guess

aren't they still radicals? I mean, they're not instructing people to vote dem or anything right?

they were always wet as fuck; you've just out radicalized them now.

They've always been reformists with some tolerance for actual communist ideas. They're useful right now when class-consciousness is effectively non-existent but they never have and never will be even remotely revolutionary. Sunkara and the core of the organization are mostly DSA shills and the like.

I think they're okay.

I think they're ok. A broad-spectrum leftist mag with penetration amongst progressive socdems is better than Bunkermag or another fucking Trot newspaper that only 300 other already-converted autists will see.

If you go too full-throttle with the radical theory you'll scare off the normies. Jacobin is really more of a transitory outlet designed to convert liberals than be a revolutionary mouthpiece of the proletariat unlike Bunkermag

They have good pieces sometimes and sometimes they have Sam Kriss articles.

Seth Ackermann has some great theory pieces on there they just get less attention

Radicalism didn't get them enough clicks I guess..

Sure! No adds!
Only "cups and t-shirts".

"Pokemon go is on the rise… QUICK! MAKE AND ARTICLE ABOUT IT!"

They got a similar layout as the Baffler. The Featured Articles are good but the daily updates are usually clickbait.

Tbh it's more likely they just have a couple people on staff with autism

Yeah how dare these people who work for something expect to be paid. I mean they're left-wing so they should, like, give it all for free, maaaan

Expecting to be paid and turning into the monster you are fighting is not the same.

Please do tell how selling cups is turning into the "monster you are fighting".

Posting clickbait does.

Then again, it could be just autism.

OR A CONSPIRACY!

I'll have you know we sell dozens of paper every week in my branch alone.

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Jacobin is still radical, Sunkara and all the editors even after S█████ do not believe the left should align with the Democratic party in any way. They still have plenty of theory-heavy pieces but they aren't as popular. ABC's of socialism, their Chicago Teachers Union newsletter, and their overall style have gotten a LOT of people interested in socialism and conversion.

The B████ campaign might have got them more focused on mainstream politics but they didn't really dramatically change their content. I mean, their Summer issue is the history of US Labor.

They are the largest anti-idpol left circle and if you get any more purist then you will be WSWS

kek

Appealing to a wider audience is not really that easy when you attract attention from the media which tries to slander you based on your views.

they were never radical

He's open about it too. He's a Kautskyist, who presents a platform for leninists, libsoc's, trotskyites, and so on.

I believe that he is consciously building the necessary social democrat (kautskyist) base for a viable revolution.

Yui, you should kill yourself.