Letters + #JacobinPitches

Jacobin troll Donald Hughes (@getfiscal) has been pitching us every week for two years. We’ve compiled some of the best, and our responses, without edits.


D The Republican Party once stood for the dignity of free labor and the ideal of nationwide solidarity. It now represents every regressive tendency in American public life. To survive a socialist century, it must renew its commitment to the emancipation of labor. Can we imagine a Republican Party that abolishes the wages system and builds a new cooperative commonwealth?

J Socialists taking over a capitalist party? Seems unlikely.

D Foreign interference is widely believed to have decided the 2016 American election. Rather than playing into the xenophobic response, how can socialists turn this into an opportunity? Insurgent primary campaigns could tap into massive reserves of foreign cash by offering to undermine the American security state   — plans consistent with our principles.

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