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A Blueprint for a New Party
With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in the working class.
Seth Ackerman is an editor at Jacobin.
With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in the working class.
Refusing to engage with Trump’s base will only guarantee the growth of the far right.
Vox’s attack on Bernie Sanders is sold as a policy critique. It’s actually a dishonest exercise in managing the Democratic Party base.
Frederick Douglass believed there was an alternative. So should we.
Some notes on a recent controversy.
Bernie Sanders’ signature issues aren’t “white” issues.
Turning Uber into a worker cooperative would be surprisingly simple.
The Right is trying to essentialize Muslims. The Left should not fall into the same trap.
Vox says higher wages for fast-food workers will lead to mass layoffs. Here’s why they’re wrong.
Piketty’s warnings of a capitalism without meritocracy are being challenged by an ossified economic theory.
Let’s have a debate over the Left and the state. But not on the libertarians’ distorted terms.
Today’s Republican extremism owes more to the Constitution that established the Union than the secessionists who sundered it. It’s Hoover’s party — and Madison’s — not Calhoun’s.
With a vacuous social vision, economics confronts the “return of the social question” woefully unprepared.
Ask not for whom Yggy trolls, he trolls for thee.
Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?