Jacobin

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Jacobin
Jacobin Logo.svg
Area of ​​Expertise Politics , culture
language English
Headquarters new York
First edition Winter 2011
Frequency of publication Quarterly
Sold edition 50,000 copies
editor Bhaskar Sunkara
Web link jacobinmag.com
ISSN (print) 2158-2602

Jacobin is a socialist American magazine that also appears in Brazil, Germany and Italy.

It was founded in 2010 as an online magazine by Bhaskar Sunkara . The magazine sees itself as a leading voice on the US left. Socialist perspectives on the economy, politics and cultural contexts are explicitly developed. Building a socialist movement in the United States is the goal and reason for the newspaper's existence.

Organization and circulation

The magazine has been published quarterly in print since 2011 and, according to its own information, reaches more than 15,000 readers. By 2016, the number of copies sold rose to around 20,000. Together with the Internet presence, Jacobin is received by around 700,000 readers. One to two articles per day are published online. Around 50,000 purchased copies will be printed in 2018 and more than a million readers per month can be reached online at the same time. This has passed traditional left-wing US magazines such as The New Republic .

As of 2016, the editorial team consists of six permanent employees. From a theoretical point of view, the journal is linked to Analytical Marxism .

Catalyst logo
Logo from Ada

In May 2017, Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy was launched. Its editor is the sociologist Vivek Chibber .In May 2018, Ada Magazin was founded, a German-language sister magazine , which was discontinued at the end of 2019 and has been replaced by a German-language Jacobin edition - online and in print - since 2020. The magazine was published online on April 7, 2020 in German, the print version has been published since May 1. An Italian edition has been available since 2018, and a Brazilian edition was added in 2019.

In 2018 Jacobin bought and revived the British left wing magazine Tribune . Sunkara also acts as the publisher here.

According to Sunkara, the magazine name refers less to the Jacobins at the time of the French Revolution . Rather, the name comes from the work The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by CLR James , in which James gave the (often black) supporters of the Haitian Revolution under the former slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture a more consistent implementation of the ideals conceded to the French Revolution than the actual Jacobins. The logo also refers to those "black Jacobins", but was inspired by a film scene with reference to the Nicaraguan national hero José Dolores .

literature

  • Loren Balhorn, Bhaskar Sunkara (ed.): Jacobin. The anthology . Translated from the English by Stephan Gebauer. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-07391-9 ( reading sample from Suhrkamp [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About Us. Jacobin, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Guido Speckmann: Away with the Marxist jargon! In: New Germany. January 26, 2015, accessed February 3, 2015 .
  3. ^ A b Dylan Matthews: Inside Jacobin: How a socialist magazine is winning the left's war of ideas. In: Vox. March 21, 2016, accessed March 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Harald Staun: The glamor of radicality. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. September 23, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  5. ^ Announcing Catalyst. In: Jacobin. April 5, 2017, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Jörg Wimalasena: “Ada” writes about the class struggle. In: Taz. May 29, 2018. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ines Schwerdtner, Ole Rauch: Ada is dead - long live Jacobin. In: Ada (magazine). Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jim Waterson: New owners of Tribune shrug off criticism from former staffers. In: guardian.co.uk. September 27, 2018, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  9. ^ Jacobin Magazine: entretien avec Bhaskar Sunkara. In: Période. October 19, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2016 (French, interview with Bhaskar Sunkara. Translated from English by Laura Raim).
  10. ↑ Remeike Forbes: The Black Jacobin. In: Jacobin. March 3, 2012, accessed February 24, 2016 .