Ten Jacobin Articles That Shaped My Thinking
On Jacobin’s tenth anniversary, staff writer Meagan Day reflects on ten Jacobin articles that heavily influenced the way she thinks about politics.
Though Vivek Chibber’s “Road to Power” was written for the print issue of Jacobin that marked the centennial of the Russian Revolution, its ultimate concern was the prospects for a socialist movement that was then in its first stages of renewal.
I first tuned in to Jacobin around 2013, and I became a regular reader when Bernie Sanders ran for president. Since then, I have read thousands of Jacobin articles and written hundreds of them myself. So many of them have influenced my political perspective, either by opening my eyes to new ideas entirely or reassuring me that I wasn’t so alone in my thinking after all. Narrowing them down to ten wasn’t easy.
I would not be the socialist I am today were it not for Jacobin. In all honesty, I figure there’s a decent chance I wouldn’t be a socialist at all. The thought that people might experience the same kind of inspiration and crystallization reading my articles that I did reading those of other contributors motivates me more than anything else.
Here’s to another decade of Jacobin, and as many as it takes to win a better world.
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