While you probably forgot that Jacobin just celebrated its own anniversary last fall, that’s okay — we’re keeping the grill fires going and icing yet another cake, ready to light the candle on the second-most important birthday bash of the last twelve months: America’s 250th. The greatest country in the world is turning 250, almost as impressive as the fifteen-year anniversary of that same country’s greatest socialist print magazine.

But we’re socialists. We can’t just do fireworks and hot dogs and call it a day. We need to go all out, really show how that bourgeois revolution can only truly define freedom and liberty once it ripples out to the masses.

That’s why we’re raising money to reenact Paul Revere’s midnight ride. But the socialist version of that ride will be a little different — we want to celebrate a revolution for all of America, not just a tiny corner of propertied, affluent New England.