I found the discussions in “Failure Is an Option” to be excellent, but it seemed to drive home a major problem with the Left: all criticism and no solutions. Socialists used to, well, have a vision of socialism. It would do Jacobin some good to consider what alternative governing program we have to both neoliberalism and capitalism.

The British left had the former through Tony Benn’s Alternative Economic Strategy, and there was a time when the Left debated models of socialism from Yugoslav self-management to Tanzanian ujamaa. Jacobin should help us bring that spirit back, because it feels like the barrier to change is more than just our political weakness, it’s our imagination.

 — Nikki Soto, Queens, NY