In October 2016, Jacobin was a small publication with less than 20,000 subscribers. A few months later, we had a circulation of 40,000.

Donald Trump’s election, and the realization that today’s liberals didn’t have any answers, pushed millions to the Left. And Jacobin was at the ready, delivering a new audience serious analysis that had a simple truth at its core: capitalism isn’t a system that produces inequities by accident — they’re at the core of the system.

Luckily there’s an alternative to this miserable situation. And from our start eight years ago to today, we’ve never been afraid to say that alternative’s name: socialism.