The Essential Guide to Jacobin
Jacobin has been putting out socialist content at a rapid clip since 2010. Here’s a handy guide to some of the most important works from our archive, from our humble beginnings to the present day.
Jacobin has been publishing groundbreaking socialist journalism for 13 years.
Jacobin has been publishing in print and online since late 2010. In case you haven’t been with us for that long — or if you need a refresher — we’ve compiled a list of essential socialist reading on politics, economics, history, and more from our archives.
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The Basics
One of Jacobin’s primary goals from the beginning has been to popularize the idea of democratic socialism. In that vein, Neal Meyer’s “What Is Democratic Socialism?” from 2018 is a useful and highly shareable explainer, as is “Democratic Socialism Is About Democracy” by longtime Jacobin editor Shawn Gude, which briefly lays out one of socialists’ central motivations: the desire for a world free of domination.
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