Choose Your Own Adventure
When your God that fails is Pol Pot.
19579 Articles by: Karl Leffme
Karl Leffme is a socialist in New York CIty.
Our Road to Power
The twentieth century left socialists plenty of lessons. Will we heed them?
From Red Square to Square One
What’s left of the Left in the post-socialist world?
Become a Jacobin Comrade Today
Political action can’t end with reading a magazine, but resistance needs ideas.
Fascism’s Face-Lift
Anti-communist campaigns in Eastern Europe aren’t about building a more democratic society — they’re about rehabilitating the far right.
Brussels, Dec. 12, 1975
NATO leaders from across the political spectrum found common cause opposing Eurocommunism.
Appalachia’s Fickle Friend
Inside the coal lobby’s campaign to win the hearts and minds of central Appalachia.
When Did It Go Wrong?
A short century filled with long disagreements.
Workers’ Paradise Lost
As Stalin advanced his vision of “socialism in one country,” prisons sprouted like a thousand flowers across the USSR.
As Long as It Catches Mice
Central planning led to modernization in poor countries — and stagnation in rich ones.
The Miracle on Ice
Without even an indoor rink, the Soviets changed hockey forever.
Why Do So Many Western Leftists Defend Robert Mugabe?
Apologetics for a kleptocratic tyrant have nothing to do with anti-imperialism.
“Liberaltarianism” Is a Sideshow
No self-respecting left can make opposition to “rent-seeking” its focus.
The Ballot and the Break
Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party, the most successful labor party in US history, is rich in lessons for challenging the two-party system.
A Century After “Ten Days”
John Reed penned the definitive account of the October Revolution — and paid a heavy price for it.
How Not to Debate the Tax Plan
When Democrats argue for balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility, they play right into Republicans’ hands.
Meghan Markle Can’t Save the World
A just world would be one without royalty — and celebrity humanitarians.
The Youngest Partisan
Thanks to the efforts of militants like Elena Lagadinova, women in Communist countries enjoyed greater equality than almost anywhere else in the world.