I’m writing to applaud your “Rural” issue. I grew up in rural Virginia — back when most of Virginia was like that — though I got politicized at a university while becoming the first member of my family to earn a college degree. The irony of so many of us becoming egalitarians, socialists even, while leaving the working class of our families has never been lost on me.

I’ve never forgotten my roots, and I felt like the main task of the Left was to bring working people everywhere who would materially benefit from our ideas into politics. With the emphasis on cultural disagreements and our concentrations in a few urban areas, I’m not sure if most socialists agree nowadays.

Through your recent issues, however, I see that Jacobin is different. These questions of how to relate to people with different views, how to understand the flight of working-class people from left parties, were thankfully found in your last issue. I especially appreciated the rigor with which Jared Abbott approached the question of “winnable Trump voters,” and the fact that article could comfortably coexist with Daniel Finn’s long essay on “Marxism and the Agrarian Question” tells me you’re up to something special.