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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump administration’s cartoonish graft presents a unique opportunity for a populist anti-corruption platform.

But for the Democrats to pull it off, they’d have to repudiate corruption within their own party first.

Anti-Corruption Politics May Be the Key to Beating Trumpism

The Trump administration’s cartoonish graft presents a unique opportunity for a populist anti-corruption platform. But for the Democrats to pull it off, they’d have to repudiate corruption within their own party first.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 13h

One hilarious architectural oddity in the US South is the world headquarters of the casual dining chain Denny’s in South Carolina.

The 18-story tower is perhaps best seen from the perspective of the workers who wash its windows at dizzying heights

The Quirkiest Corporate HQ in the American South

One hilarious architectural oddity in the US South is the world headquarters of the casual dining chain Denny’s in South Carolina. The 18-story tower is perhaps best seen from the perspective of the workers who wash its windows at dizzying heights.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 13h

We live in an age of populism, on the Right and on the Left. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber explains both populism’s potential and limitations for putting class and economics back into politics.

What Populism Can (and Can’t) Do for the Left

We live in an age of populism, on the Right and on the Left. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber explains both populism’s potential and limitations for putting class and economics back into politics.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 14h

The Trump administration’s cartoonish graft presents a unique opportunity for a populist anti-corruption platform.

But for the Democrats to pull it off, they’d have to repudiate corruption within their own party first.

Anti-Corruption Politics May Be the Key to Beating Trumpism

The Trump administration’s cartoonish graft presents a unique opportunity for a populist anti-corruption platform. But for the Democrats to pull it off, they’d have to repudiate corruption within their own party first.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 14h

Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing describes life working in China’s logistics and service trades.

Anyan’s account reveals differences in context between Chinese and US workers that indicate the difficulty of international working-class solidarity.

Life Inside China’s Gig Machine

Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing describes life working in China’s logistics and service trades. Anyan’s account reveals differences in context between Chinese and US workers that indicate the difficulty of international working-class solidarity.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 15h

Emergency rooms, dentist offices, and nursing homes managed by the private equity industry consistently deliver worse health outcomes than other such medical institutions.

The difference can mean life or death for patients.

Private Equity Delivers Consistently Poor Health Outcomes

Emergency rooms, dentist offices, and nursing homes managed by the private equity industry consistently deliver worse health outcomes than other such medical institutions. The difference can mean life or death for patients.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16h

For the last three decades, Rwanda’s leader Paul Kagame has fueled conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ransacked its natural resources.

The US and the EU have been Kagame’s partners in crime so they can get a share of the loot.

The West Has Helped Paul Kagame to Pillage the Congo

For the last three decades, Rwanda’s leader Paul Kagame has fueled conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ransacked its natural resources. The US and the EU have been Kagame’s partners in crime so they can get a share of the loot.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16h

Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights.

This fundamental asymmetry, as German sociologist Claus Offe explained, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult.

Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism

Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This fundamental asymmetry, as German sociologist Claus Offe explained, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 18h

After Charles Fourier death, 188 years ago today, Friedrich Engels credited him with the idea of alienation, that under capitalism we lack a personal connection to our work because it profits someone else.

At the Dawn of Capitalism, Charles Fourier Imagined a Socialist-Feminist Utopia

Two and a half centuries after his birth, the insightful, outlandish, yet oddly practical ideas of the utopian socialist writer Charles Fourier still seem shockingly modern.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 21h

Socialist writer Charles Fourier died on this day 188 years ago.

Nearly two centuries later, his insightful, outlandish, yet oddly practical ideas still seem shockingly modern.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

The Professional Staff Congress, the faculty and staff union at the City University of New York, is organizing against GOP attacks on higher ed — and fighting what it says are the CUNY administration’s own McCarthyist attacks on pro-Palestine professors.

CUNY Workers Against the New McCarthyism

The Professional Staff Congress, the faculty and staff union at the City University of New York, is organizing against GOP attacks on higher ed — and fighting what it says are the CUNY administration’s own McCarthyist attacks on pro-Palestine professors.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by thorough dehumanization and staggering destruction.

What type of war would be politically incorrect enough for Trump?

Trump: The US Lost Vietnam and Afghanistan Due to Woke

Donald Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by thorough dehumanization and staggering destruction. What type of war would be politically incorrect enough for Trump?

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality.

In fact, “predistributive” measures like minimum wages and collective bargaining can be equally or more effective.

We Can Use Predistribution to Fight Income Inequality

Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality. In fact, “predistributive” measures like minimum wages and collective bargaining can be equally or more effective.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

Populist economic policies grounded in the value of work and commonsense notions of fairness may be able to win over constituencies that have abandoned Democrats in recent decades.

There’s a problem though: the Democratic brand is trash.

Economic Populism Is Powerful, but Democrats’ Brand Is Toxic

Populist economic policies grounded in the value of work and commonsense notions of fairness may be able to win over constituencies that have abandoned Democrats in recent decades. There’s a problem though: the Democratic brand is trash.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

Why aren’t more elected officials turning Donald Trump’s assault on the basic rights of both noncitizens and citizens into a major national scandal?

Where Is Politicians’ Urgency Over Donald Trump’s ICE Raids?

Why aren’t more elected officials turning Donald Trump’s assault on the basic rights of both noncitizens and citizens into a major national scandal?

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

More and more economists agree with Robert Brenner that mature capitalist economies have begun to stagnate.

We should not deny this reality but rather think clearly about how it affects our political outlook.

We’re All Stagnationists Now

More and more economists agree with Robert Brenner that mature capitalist economies have begun to stagnate. We should not deny this reality but rather think clearly about how it affects our political outlook.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

Fredric Jameson: The evolution of capitalism spurred the growth of French theory in the 1940s and its gradual exhaustion in the neoliberal period.

Fredric Jameson and the Adventure of French Theory

After 1945, France produced an extraordinary wave of social theorists whose influence is still felt today. In his final work, Fredric Jameson discussed the excitement of watching this wave rise and fall and the conditions that made it possible.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

In solidarity with the recently imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump levied tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil.

He is quickly learning that the US’s influence is weaker than he thought, thanks largely to Brazil’s growing ties with China.

Why Trump’s Attempt to Bully Brazil Is Falling Flat

In solidarity with the recently imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump levied tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil. He is quickly learning that the US’s influence is weaker than he thought, thanks largely to Brazil’s growing ties with China.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

Women say Pfizer has failed to properly warn them about a link between birth control shot Depo-Provera and brain tumors. The pharmaceutical giant is now attempting to use a powerful legal maneuver to try to silence them.

Big Pharma’s Legal Escape Hatch

Women say Pfizer has failed to properly warn them about a link between birth control shot Depo-Provera and brain tumors. The pharmaceutical giant is now attempting to use a powerful legal maneuver to try to silence them.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

France has just seen the third resignation of a prime minister in less than a year. What is at stake is not merely short-term instability — it is a crisis of the entire Fifth Republic political regime as it enters a new phase in its history.

France Is Experiencing a Full-Blown Regime Crisis

France has just seen the third resignation of a prime minister in less than a year. What is at stake is not merely short-term instability — it is a crisis of the entire Fifth Republic political regime as it enters a new phase in its history.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void.

In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.

When a Superpower Declines, Shared Reality Dissolves

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

Postal workers in Canada are on strike to preserve delivery service as a job with a living wage. If they lose, even state-run delivery will be remade in the image of the gig economy.

Canada Post’s Strike Is a Salvo Against the Gig Economy

Canada Post once set the standard for secure, middle-class work. Now, as government moves to gut it, postal workers are fighting against a future of gigified delivery jobs, vanishing benefits, and race-to-the-bottom wages.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

More than just a set of free-market policies, neoliberalism has always sought to alter society's balance of power in favor of bosses.

Its assault on democracy and undermining of unions is now playing straight into the hands of the far right.

Neoliberalism Has Always Been a Threat to Democracy

More than just a set of free-market policies, neoliberalism has always sought to alter society's balance of power in favor of bosses. Its assault on democracy and undermining of unions is now playing straight into the hands of the far right.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

The Czech elections handed victory to the Trump-like billionaire Andrej Babiš last weekend. m

The neoliberal right-wing incumbents did little to curb the high cost of living and again lost to a candidate who promised to do something about it.

The Czech Neoliberal Right Lost. Czech Trumpists Won.

The Czech elections handed victory to the Trump-like billionaire Andrej Babiš last weekend. The neoliberal right-wing incumbents did little to curb the high cost of living and again lost to a candidate who promised to do something about it.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

I joined a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza. After Israeli forces seized our ship, I spent five days inside al-Naqab prison, witnessing the cruelty of Israel’s detention regime.

I Spent Five Days in Israel’s Desert Prison

I joined a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza. After Israeli forces seized our ship, I spent five days inside al-Naqab prison, witnessing the cruelty of Israel’s detention regime.

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