“objectionable forms of state activity”
The Making of the American Police State
Christian Parenti • Jacobin • 7.28.2015
“subordination to market discipline”
Capitalism’s Gravediggers
Ellen Meiksins Wood • Jacobin • 12.5.2014
“essentially veto government policies”
The Business Veto
Shawn Gude • Jacobin • Issue 20
“the appearance and spread of capitalism”
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Ellen Meiksins Wood • Verso, 2002
In the Name of Love
Miya Tokumitsu • Jacobin • Issue 13
Social Democracy’s Incomplete Legacy
Chris Maisano • Jacobin • Issue 6
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels • 1848
Uniting the Dispossessed
Bryan D. Palmer • Jacobin • 7.22.2015
“examples of people fighting against exploitation”
The Second American Revolution
Bruce Levine • Jacobin • Issue 18
“state-supported research and development”
Red Innovation
Tony Smith • Jacobin • Issue 17
The Limits of Libertarianism
Corey Robin • Jacobin • 7.12.2014
“redistribution through taxation”
The Right to a Dignified Life
Jesse A. Myerson • Jacobin • 8.4.2015
The Truth About Finance
Stephen Maher • Jacobin • 1.5.2016
“universal health care system”
What Obamacare Can’t Do
Adam Gaffney • Jacobin • 2.11.2016
“battles won by labor movements”
A Labor Movement That Takes Sides
Lois Weiner • Jacobin • 9.7.2015
“In a socialist society—even one in which markets are retained”
The Red and the Black
Seth Ackerman • Jacobin • Issue 9
Chasing Utopia
Sam Gindin • Jacobin • 3.10.2016
Working for the Weekend
Chris Maisano • Jacobin • Issue 7/8
“As Luxemburg wrote in her 1918 pamphlet”
The Russian Revolution
Rosa Luxemburg • 1918
The Civil War in France
Karl Marx • 1871
The Great Reformer
Kjell Östberg • Jacobin • 9.10.2015
The Many Lives of François Mitterrand
Jonah Birch • Jacobin • 8.19.2015
China in Revolt
Eli Friedman • Jacobin • Issue 7/8
How Does the Subaltern Speak?
Vivek Chibber • Jacobin • Issue 10
After Rana Plaza
Colin Long • Jacobin • 6.6.2014
“the logic of capital is universal—and so is resistance against it”
“The crime of capitalism is that it forces the vast majority of the population to remain preoccupied with basic concerns of nutrition, housing, health, and skill acquisition. It leaves little time for fostering the community and creativity that humans crave.”
Why We’re Marxists
Nivedita Majumdar • Jacobin • 7.2.2014
The Poverty of Culture
Jonah Birch & Paul Heideman • Jacobin • 9.6.2014
How Race is Conjured
Barbara J. Fields & Karen E. Fields • Jacobin • 6.29.2015
“Class struggle changes people’s ideas and preconceptions and forges new bonds of solidarity. Working-class struggles have played a central role in winning white workers over to the fight against racism.”
Taking Racism Seriously
Jennifer Roesch • Jacobin • 8.8.2015
“gravitated toward socialist politics”
The Black Belt Communists
Robin D.G. Kelley • Jacobin • 8.20.2015
Restoring King
Thomas J. Sugrue • Jacobin • 1.18.2015
“bourgeois political projects”
Hillary Clinton’s Empowerment
Kevin Young & Diana C. Sierra Becerra • Jacobin • 3.9.2015
Abortion Without Apology
Jenny Brown & Erin Mahoney • Jacobin • 12.31.2015
“Even at their height, Nordic welfare states never came close to truly socializing the labor of care—especially when we think beyond child-rearing to the many kinds of care that people need over their lifetimes.”
Caring in the City
Johanna Brenner • Jacobin • Issue 15/16
She Can’t Sleep No More
Sarah Leonard • Jacobin • Issue 9
“Human activity has transformed the entire planet”
The Anthropocene Myth
Andreas Malm • Jacobin • 3.30.2015
“to live luxuriously but also lightly”
Seize the Hamptons
Daniel Aldana Cohen • Jacobin • Issue 15/16
“Energy in particular is of central importance”
The Green Struggle
Brent Ryan Bellamy & David Thomas • Jacobin • 10.27.2015
“ecologically sustainable socialism”
Alive in the Sunshine
Alyssa Battistoni • Jacobin • Issue 13
“We participate in the struggle against restrictions on free speech”
Students Into Soldiers
Rory Fanning • Jacobin • 4.7.2016
“Nowhere is this approach more important than in the United States”
Abolish the Military
Greg Shupak • Jacobin • 11.11.2015
“At every turn, the American government has shown”
Nixon and the Cambodian Genocide
Brett S. Morris • Jacobin • 4.27.2015
“a war against the Confederacy”
“A conservative estimate of civilian deaths arising from the war is two million in South Vietnam alone, from a population of nineteen million. An analogous civilian casualty rate in the United States today would be nearly thirty-three million.”
The Burden of Atrocity
Penny Lewis • Jacobin • 4.29.2014
“radical opposition to imperialism”
Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost
Joe Allen • Haymarket Books • 2007
“What King came to understand”
The Evolution of Dr. King
Lee Sustar • Jacobin • 1.18.2015
“The labor movement is not just another social movement. It has a special role: to challenge the main source of power in society—accumulation of capital from the labor of workers.”
Labor Law Won’t Save Us
Joe Burns • Jacobin • 1.27.2015
“Workers are therefore not only a social group”
Why Class Matters
Erik Olin Wright • Jacobin • 12.23.2015
Culture Isn’t Free
Miranda Campbell • Jacobin • 7.2.2015
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
Marshall Berman • Verso Books • 1983
The Privatization of Childhood
Megan Erickson • Jacobin • 9.3.2015
The Two Souls of Socialism
Hal Draper • New Politics • Winter 1966