Jacobin once again proving that they’re not a radical publication.
I swear to god, anyone who thinks Jacobin is anything but a SocDem publication needs to first touch some grass, then read some theory.
I thought they were a Liberal publication
I distinctly remember them manufacturing consent that led in some small part to normalizing support for the coup in Bolivia – accusing MAS of being on par with ecoterrorists, claiming Morales was more fascist than socialist, repeatedly calling Bolivia “extractivist”.
Those articles are difficult to find, now, and it seems like they’ve rectified their line… after the coup occured and was subsequently squashed. Opportunists.
This. I also remember being told that Morales was the equivalent of a dictator, that they don’t agree with the politics of the interim government but it’s complicated and we just need new elections that preclude Morales running again.
Unfortunate. Didn’t know much about them and thought they were at least somewhat socialist before seeing OP’s post
I vaguely remember them being semi-decent a number of years ago, but that was also before I was fully ML.
The vast majority of their takes can be boiled down to ‘liberalism with a socialist mask’, and that fools leftists into thinking their stances have relevancy within a serious left.
It’s a losing formula, all in all. I remember reading them and being excited by what they said. Then I’d read the references. And every time I came back to the journal, I’d moved further and further left until it was redundant and so obviously at odds with what it professed to be. It only works with those who don’t dig deeper. So they either make Marxists out of libs and lose them as readers or keep liberals reading and lead them down a dead end.
The same AOC that can’t even bring herself to vote NO to funding Israel to the point that just an ABSTENTION “brings her to tears”?
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/24/politics/aoc-israel-iron-dome-vote-explanation/index.html
The tears are the realization that she was selling out, willingly, and the self shame at the realization.
Lol so insane. If you’re willing to publicly talk about crying over the vote and letting your voters know you don’t agree with Israel, then clearly optics isn’t an issue, so why not just do it during your job?
lol.
AOC is basically the larvae state of a future Nancy Pelosi.
I like how career politicians get team names like they’re superheroes. Really makes me relate.
“You tankies make fun of how little The Squad has accomplished, but we’ll have you know they’ve accomplished just as much as Joe Biden!”
Fuckin name one
AOC has managed to sheepdog naive leftists into thinking that she’s a radical who is going to bring change (we can believe in™) to the Democratic Party just by voting for her.
That’s actually quite the achievement when you think about it.
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Another day of Jacobin being Girondin
I’ve heard Jacobin writers refer to themselves as “the Jacobin milieu”. That should have been my first sign.
What the fuck is “the squad”? Got damn these fucking people are so fucking cringey
The name should have been changed to Girondino, to have the correct name of the magazine.
Well they’re really good at taking extant movements and driving them into the ground through capitulation, virtue signaling , and inaction!
What has AOC and The Squad actually accomplished? I’ve seen videos of her lecturing people in office but I don’t know what has come of it.
the article in the image details it
I went and found the article and figured I’d share it here for easy reading.
Oh looks like WSWS made a response to the Jacobin article
Direct non-Twitter link: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/18/ohyb-a18.html
Thanks, that’s a pretty damning takedown, even though the original article was weak.
She’s done a lot for Italian representation.
The word “vitriol” is too popular with smug editorial-writing liberals for me to not see it as a warning.