Adolph Reed: We Must Avoid Race Reductionism
The black population in the United States is roughly the size of the population of Spain. Yet too many ignore class differences and political complexities among millions of African Americans.
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Christian Rakovsky’s Life and Death Mirrored the Fate of European Marxism
Born in Bulgaria, Christian Rakovsky became a major leader of the Russian Revolution who wanted the Soviet Union to be a true partnership of nations. But when Rakovsky challenged Stalin’s dictatorship, he was tried and executed on a trumped-up charge.
April Showers Bring Workers’ Power
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Art Imitates Life
Oliver Stone’s controversial 1991 political thriller JFK was fiction that poked real holes in the official account of the president’s death.
Issue 49: Dossier
All the key QAnon lingo you missed on 8chan.
Oliver Stone Talks to Jacobin About JFK’s Killing
The famed director explains why he thinks the national security state, including the CIA and FBI, killed John F. Kennedy — not a lone shooter.
Capitalism Is a Conspiracy
It’s easy to dismiss conspiracy theories as the powerful workings of the paranoid mind — but capitalism is the real engine of mistrust.
Issue 49: The Internet Speaks
They’re plotting against us. So our ear is to the ground.
The People’s Cult
Over 900 died at Jonestown in 1978 in a murder-suicide that shook the world. How did Peoples Temple go from emancipatory project to disaster?
The Conspiracy of the Algorithm
People aren’t wrong to feel like their lives are increasingly out of their control. Twenty-first-century technology guarantees it.
When Sinatra Sang for His Life
The Kennedys, the Mob, and the FBI — the Rat Pack’s legendary 1962 residency at the Villa Venice brought the secret power structure of postwar America under one roof.
Did Punk Start as a Situationist Stunt?
In Britain, punk is often seen as a reaction to national decline, coming up from the streets, while its roots in Situationist political pranking have been discredited. Maybe it’s time to look again at Malcolm McLaren and his ten-point plan.