• Summertime Soviet@lemmygrad.ml
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.