Jacobin once again proving that they’re not a radical publication.
I swear to god, anyone who thinks Jacobin is anything but a SocDem publication needs to first touch some grass, then read some theory.
I thought they were a Liberal publication
They are
I distinctly remember them manufacturing consent that led in some small part to normalizing support for the coup in Bolivia – accusing MAS of being on par with ecoterrorists, claiming Morales was more fascist than socialist, repeatedly calling Bolivia “extractivist”.
Those articles are difficult to find, now, and it seems like they’ve rectified their line… after the coup occured and was subsequently squashed. Opportunists.
This. I also remember being told that Morales was the equivalent of a dictator, that they don’t agree with the politics of the interim government but it’s complicated and we just need new elections that preclude Morales running again.
first touch some grass, then read some theory
How I start my day. Quite literally sometimes. I’ll go on a walk and listen to theory.
This is also my morning ritual. Wake up before the kids (because sleep disorders rule), go for a Stupid Mental Health Walk, make breakfast, go read something.
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Unfortunate. Didn’t know much about them and thought they were at least somewhat socialist before seeing OP’s post
I vaguely remember them being semi-decent a number of years ago, but that was also before I was fully ML.
The vast majority of their takes can be boiled down to ‘liberalism with a socialist mask’, and that fools leftists into thinking their stances have relevancy within a serious left.
It’s a losing formula, all in all. I remember reading them and being excited by what they said. Then I’d read the references. And every time I came back to the journal, I’d moved further and further left until it was redundant and so obviously at odds with what it professed to be. It only works with those who don’t dig deeper. So they either make Marxists out of libs and lose them as readers or keep liberals reading and lead them down a dead end.
The same AOC that can’t even bring herself to vote NO to funding Israel to the point that just an ABSTENTION “brings her to tears”?
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/24/politics/aoc-israel-iron-dome-vote-explanation/index.html
The tears are the realization that she was selling out, willingly, and the self shame at the realization.
Lol so insane. If you’re willing to publicly talk about crying over the vote and letting your voters know you don’t agree with Israel, then clearly optics isn’t an issue, so why not just do it during your job?
lol.
AOC is basically the larvae state of a future Nancy Pelosi.
I like how career politicians get team names like they’re superheroes. Really makes me relate.
“You tankies make fun of how little The Squad has accomplished, but we’ll have you know they’ve accomplished just as much as Joe Biden!”
‘we didn’t say the accomplishments were good’
She isn’t anti-imperialist and is hence not any better than any of the others
I hate Jacobin as they absolutely misuse the name Jacobin and what they stood for
One of the few French things that I like (alongside the metric system and the Paris Commune) as an exception from all their years of mostly disgusting history. The name was coopted for a soc dem magazine of all things. It’s truly incredible how America can ruin everything that I like.
It’s an insight into how courageous libs see themselves.
What was this initially from?
Pretty sure this is from a few years ago when Jorge Ramos was using his status as liberal darling after getting removed from a Trump rally to springboard into making up bullshit stories about Venezuela and pushing for the recognition of the one true president, Juan Guido, also to the delight of liberals
I was wondering this as well.
Didn’t she try to break the rail strike a while back?
Yeah, she spoke about the strike positively on social media, but then voted to make the strike illegal like the rest of them. It’s all smoke and mirrors with that one.
Didn’t the Amazon labor organizer Chris Smalls call her out for never showing up to support them too?
Oh she showed up, once they won the vote and there was little risk in associating with the unionisation drive.
Typical
Fuckin name one
AOC has managed to sheepdog naive leftists into thinking that she’s a radical who is going to bring change (we can believe in™) to the Democratic Party just by voting for her.
That’s actually quite the achievement when you think about it.
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Like enthusiastically sending money to Nazis and apartheid Israel?
Another day of Jacobin being Girondin
I’ve heard Jacobin writers refer to themselves as “the Jacobin milieu”. That should have been my first sign.
What the fuck is “the squad”? Got damn these fucking people are so fucking cringey
I’m jealous that you don’t know, but it’s basically a small block of socdem (in name only at that) losers that try to posture as radical while behaving as your average Democrat.
I wish Parenti were still writing so he could be dunking on them the way he used to on people like Sanders
Whenever I read his stuff I’ve noticed he dunks on Chomsky in almost every book lol
It’s not very hard to dunk on Chomsky.
I read The Withdrawal with Vijay Prashad last year. It was solid. I still need to read Manufacturing Consent.
He’s done some good stuff. He still has a lot of very bad takes
I agree. He also has very little charisma.
Have you read Inventing Reality and/or Make Believe Media? They’re both better than MC and the former was written first but Herman and Chomsky don’t cite Parenti.
Not yet but they are on my list along with every other Parenti book I haven’t read.
The name should have been changed to Girondino, to have the correct name of the magazine.
