Jacobin (magazine)

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Jacobin
Issue 11/12 (fall 2013)
PublisherRemeike Forbes
CategoriesPolitics, culture
FrequencyQuarterly
Paid circulation75,000[1]
Unpaid circulation>3 million (online monthly)[1]
FounderBhaskar Sunkara
First issue2010
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York
LanguageEnglish
Websitejacobin.com
ISSN2158-2602
OCLC677928766
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Jacobin is an American socialist magazine based in New York. As of 2023, the magazine reported a paid print circulation of 75,000 and over 3 million monthly visitors.[1]

History and overview

The publication began as an online magazine released in September 2010,[2] expanding into a print journal later that year.[3] Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara describes Jacobin as a radical publication being "largely the product of a younger generation not quite as tied to the Cold War paradigms that sustained the old leftist intellectual milieux like Dissent or New Politics, but still eager to confront, rather than table, the questions that arose from the experience of the left in the 20th century".[4]

In 2014, Sunkara said that the aim of the magazine was to create a publication which combined resolutely socialist politics with the accessibility of titles such as The Nation and The New Republic.[5] He has also contrasted it with publications associated with small leftist groups, such as the International Socialist Organization's Socialist Worker and International Socialist Review which were oriented towards party members and other revolutionary socialists, seeking a broader audience than those works while still anchoring the magazine in a Marxist perspective.[6] In an interview he gave in 2018, Sunkara said that he intended for Jacobin to perform a similar role on the contemporary left to that undertaken by National Review on the post-war right, i.e. "to cohere people around a set of ideas, and to interact with the mainstream of liberalism with that set of ideas".[7] In 2016, the Columbia Journalism Review called it "most successful American ideological magazine to launch in the past decade".[8]

Jacobin's popularity grew with the increasing attention on leftist ideas stimulated by Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, with subscriptions tripling from 10,000 in the summer of 2015 to 32,000 as of the first issue of 2017, with 16,000 of the new subscribers being added in the two months after Donald Trump's election.[7]

In late 2016, Jacobin's editorial team unionized, including a total of seven full- and part-time members. An associate editor and co-chair of the union explained that Jacobin had only recently had enough full-time members to warrant unionization.[9][10]

In spring 2017, Jacobin launched a peer-reviewed journal, Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, which is today edited by New York University professor Vivek Chibber and a small editorial board. As of 2022, Catalyst claims a subscriber base of 7,500.[11]

In November 2018, the magazine's first foreign-language edition, Jacobin Italia, was launched. Sunkara described it as "a classic franchise model", with the parent publication providing publishing and editorial advice and taking a small slice of revenue, but otherwise granting the Italian magazine autonomy.[7] A Brazilian edition appeared in 2019,[12] and a German version started publishing in 2020; the latter grew out of Ada, an independent online magazine established in 2018 which primarily published translations of Jacobin articles.[13][14] The first issue of the German edition featured interviews with Kevin Kühnert and Grace Blakeley.[13] A Spanish-language version of Jacobin, Jacobin América Latina, was also launched in 2020.[15]

In April 2020, Jacobin launched its YouTube channel featuring the Weekends program with Michael Brooks and Ana Kasparian.[16][17][18][19]

In May 2020, sometime after Bernie Sanders suspended his 2020 presidential campaign, Sanders' former adviser and speechwriter David Sirota joined Jacobin as editor-at-large.[20]

In 2020, Jacobin became an affiliated member of the Progressive International.[21]

The name of the magazine derives from the 1938 book The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James in which James ascribes the Haitian revolutionists a greater purity in regards to their attachment to the ideals of the French Revolution than the French Jacobins.[6] The conservative religious journal First Things criticized Jacobin's claim to represent Toussaint Louverture, pointing to Louverture's devout Catholicism, opposition to the massacres of former slave owners, and his actions to the former slaves of the colonies.[22]

According to creative director Remeike Forbes, the magazine's frequently used "Black Jacobin" logo was inspired by a scene in the movie Burn! referring to Nicaraguan national hero José Dolores Estrada.[23]

Contributors

Sunkara has said he feels that "all of our writers fit within a broad socialist tradition", noting that the magazine does sometimes publish articles by liberals and social democrats, but that such pieces are written from a perspective that is consistent with the magazine's editorial vision, saying that "we might publish a piece by a liberal advocating single-payer healthcare, because they’re calling for the decommodification of a sector; and since we believe in the decommodification of the whole economy, it fits in". In terms of the sociological background of contributors, Sunkara acknowledged that they were mostly under the age of 35 and stated that "there are a lot of grad students, young adjunct professors or tenured professors. We also have quite a few organizers and union researchers involved [...] and people working in NGOs or around housing rights, that kind of thing".[5]

Notable Jacobin contributors have included:

Ideology and reception

Jacobin has been variously described as democratic socialist, socialist and Marxist.[24][25] Writing for the New Statesman in November 2013, Max Strasser suggested that Jacobin claims to "take the mantle of Marxist thought of Ralph Miliband and a similar vein of democratic socialism".[26] According to an article published in September 2014 by the Nieman Journalism Lab, Jacobin is a journal of "democratic socialist thought".[27]

In January 2013, The New York Times ran a profile of Bhaskar Sunkara, commenting on the publication's unexpected success and engagement with mainstream liberalism.[28] In an October 2013 article for Tablet, Michelle Goldberg discussed Jacobin as part of a revival of interest in Marxism among young intellectuals.[29] In February 2016, Jake Blumgart, who contributed to the magazine in its early years, stated that it "found an audience by mixing data-driven analysis and Marxist commentary with an irreverent and accessible style".[24]

In a 2014 interview published in New Left Review, Sunkara named a number of ideological influences on the magazine, including Michael Harrington, whom he described as "very underrated as a popularizer of Marxist thought"; Ralph Miliband and others such as Leo Panitch who were influenced by Trotskyism without fully embracing it; theorists working in the Eurocommunist tradition; and "Second International radicals" including Vladimir Lenin and Karl Kautsky.[5]

In April 2016, Noam Chomsky called the magazine "a bright light in dark times".[30]

In a March 2018 article published in the Weekly Worker, Jim Creegan highlighted the association of a number of the magazine's editors and writers with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), describing Jacobin as "the closest thing to a flagship publication of the DSA left" while also stressing the political diversity of contributors, incorporating "everyone from social democratic liberals to avowed revolutionaries". He also noted several features of the publication's editorial stance, namely its rejection of anti-communism; its skepticism regarding the possibility of the Democratic Party being transformed into a social-democratic movement through internal pressure, advocating instead the formation of a mass-based independent labor party; criticism of the parties of the Socialist International, which they argue have been responsible for imposing neoliberal austerity policies; and a conviction that the Nordic model of social democracy is ultimately not viable and that the only alternative to capitalism would be for militant labor and socialist movements to struggle to replace capitalism with socialism.[31]

References

  1. ^ a b c "About Us". Jacobin. Archived from the original on June 27, 2021. Retrieved April 10, 2023. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 75,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over three million per a month.
  2. ^ "This is what you need to know". Bookforum. September 28, 2010. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
  3. ^ Blumgart, Jake (December 18, 2012). "The Next Left: An Interview with Bhaskar Sunkara". Boston Review. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
  4. ^ Sunkara, Bhaskar (March 16, 2011). "No Short-Cuts: Interview with the Jacobin". Idiom magazine (Interview). Interviewed by Stephen Squibb. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
  5. ^ a b c Sunkara, Bhaskar (2014). "Interview: Project Jacobin". New Left Review (in French). 90: 28–43. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2018. There are of course Socialist Worker and International Socialist Review which are associated with the International Socialist Organization (ISO), an American Trotskyist group with about 1,000 members. Note: International Socialist Review commenced 1956; from the 1990s, continued as a publication of Center for Economic Research and Social Change; last issue produced in 2019.
  6. ^ a b Budgen, Sebastian; et al. (October 19, 2015). "Jacobin Magazine: entretien avec Bhaskar Sunkara". Revueperiode (in French). Archived from the original on February 24, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  7. ^ a b c Baird, Robert P. (January 2, 2019). "The ABCs of Jacobin". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  8. ^ "The ABCs of Jacobin". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
  9. ^ Marans, Daniel (October 19, 2016). "Workers Unionize At Socialist Magazine 'Jacobin'". HuffPost. Archived from the original on July 5, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  10. ^ James, Brendan (October 19, 2016). "Top Marx: socialist magazine Jacobin's staffers unionize". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 5, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  11. ^ "About Page". Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy. Archived from the original on June 19, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  12. ^ Wohlfarth, Tom (December 12, 2019). "Nicht mehr peinlich" [No longer embarrassing]. Neues Deutschland (in German). Archived from the original on August 5, 2020. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  13. ^ a b Hackbarth, Daniel (May 14, 2020). "Raus aus der Nische" [Get out of the niche]. WOZ Die Wochenzeitung (in German). Archived from the original on June 10, 2020. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  14. ^ Hunziker, David (August 23, 2018). "Eine Prise Optimismus, angelsächsische Art" [A pinch of optimism, Anglo-Saxon style]. WOZ Die Wochenzeitung (in German). Archived from the original on May 27, 2020. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
  15. ^ Página12 (February 15, 2021). "El alcance regional de la revista Jacobin | Una publicación con debates, reflexiones y análisis de coyuntura". PAGINA12. Retrieved February 6, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Sunkara, Bhaskar (July 20, 2020). "Remembering Our Friend and Comrade Michael Brooks". Jacobin. Archived from the original on July 21, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  17. ^ Warnock, Caroline (July 20, 2020). "Michael Brooks Dead: Popular Host of 'The Michael Brooks Show' Dies Suddenly". Heavy.com. Archived from the original on July 20, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  18. ^ "Remembering Michael Brooks". YouTube. The Young Turks. July 20, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  19. ^ Wulfsohn, Joseph (July 20, 2020). "Progressives mourn the loss of political commentator Michael Brooks". Fox News. Archived from the original on July 21, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  20. ^ "David Sirota Joins the Jacobin Team". Jacobin. Archived from the original on May 15, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2020.[non-primary source needed]
  21. ^ "Jacobin". Progressive International. Archived from the original on June 27, 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  22. ^ Andrews, Helen (March 2017). "Saint Louverture". First Things. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  23. ^ Forbes, Remeike (Spring 2012). "The Black Jacobin. Our visual identity". Jacobin. Archived from the original on December 30, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  24. ^ a b Blumgart, Jake (February 6, 2016). "Jawnts: Giving socialism a good name". Philly.com. Philadelphia Media Network. Archived from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  25. ^ Matthews, Dylan (March 21, 2016). "Inside Jacobin: how a socialist magazine is winning the left's war of ideas". Vox. Archived from the original on May 23, 2020. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  26. ^ Strasser, Max (November 9, 2013). "Who are the new socialist wunderkinds of America?". New Statesman. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  27. ^ O'Donovan, Caroline (September 16, 2014). "Jacobin: A Marxist rag run on a lot of petty-bourgeois hustle". Nieman Journalism Lab. Archived from the original on July 10, 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  28. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (January 1, 2013). "A Young Publisher Takes Marx Into the Mainstream". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 11, 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  29. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (October 14, 2013). "A Generation of Intellectuals Shaped by 2008 Crash Rescues Marx From History's Dustbin". Tablet. Archived from the original on July 13, 2020. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  30. ^ Srinivasan, Meera (April 5, 2016). "The voice of the American Left". The Hindu. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
  31. ^ Creegan, Jim (March 22, 2018). "Walking the Tightrope". Weekly Worker. Archived from the original on April 25, 2020. Retrieved March 26, 2018.

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