Beyond Windsor
Queer theory fought the marriage equality movement and lost. What comes next will require scholars to come out of their journals and into the streets. When news happens, queer academics are like anyone...
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The exploitative relationship between city and countryside pervades Chinese life. Nowhere is inequality in access to public goods clearer than in the country’s urban education system. A key element of...
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She Came to Riot
The memory of riot grrrl deepens the divide between cultural and material feminism, hobbling critiques of inequality by mistaking self-improvement for revolution. What, exactly, constitutes a girl...
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Property and Theft
The overthrow of all intellectual property leaves unanswered the question of how to control the exploitation of the cultural commons by digital capitalists. Illustration by Tiffanie Tran The state’s...
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The Myth of the Hardhat Hawk
In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by the privileged, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers supported the war effort. That memory is wrong....
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Reading Materiel
Introducing the Jacobin books section. Illustration by Daniel Haskett In a notebook he kept while imprisoned in the late 1960s, Régis Debray recorded a scene from Che Guevara’s final ill-fated mission...
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Don’t Mention the War
With a vacuous social vision, economics confronts the “return of the social question” woefully unprepared. Illustration by Kotryna Zukauskaite From the beginning, economics has been a moral philosophy...
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A Marxist in Keynes’ Court
Maurice Dobb was one of John Maynard Keynes’ favorite students. He was also a committed Marxist and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Illustration by “Kotryna Zukauskaite No economist —...
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Back to the Fragments
A socialist-feminist classic appeared just as Thatcherism began pulverizing the Left. Today, should it be read as historical document or a blueprint for action? Illustration by Daniel Haskett / Jacobin...
View ArticleFrom Bandung to BRICs
Vijay Prashad’s Poorer Nations asks whether the Global South can pose a credible alternative to neoliberal development. Factory fires that kill hundreds of workers toiling over t-shirts....
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