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The latest issue of Catalyst is out now!
This edition tackles fundamental debates facing socialists today, including essays on the rise and future of DSA, how to understand the final break with capitalism, what work should look like under socialism, and much more.
New subscribers can get this issue plus three more for just $20 below.
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The fall issue of Jacobin is out now!
Among other topics, “The New Empire” examines why the erosion of US dominance has bred more violence, not less, and why militarism remains so politically durable.
Get it by starting a subscription for just $3: jacobin.com/subscribe?medium…
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is right. We must abolish ICE.
Immigration scholar Suzy Lee argues that this should only be the beginning of a comprehensive, alternative vision for the immigration system in the US based on immigrant and workers rights.
Why did Marxism flourish in the early 20th century and again in the 1960s and ’70s?
Our editor, Vivek Chibber, argues that the answer lies in the strength of the labor movement.
Marxism isn’t a doctrine — even Karl Marx said “I’m not a Marxist.”
Instead, it’s a series of propositions and hypotheses about how the world really works that anyone who wants to change it should embrace: jacobin.com/2026/10/marxism-…
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The market dominates everyone and everything under capitalism.
But markets had a life before the present order and, as Vivek Chibber @catalyst_theory argues on the new Confronting Capitalism, we can imagine them having a life after.
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"The Necessity of Revolution"
I'm in the new @catalyst_theory arguing that conditions make another long period of stable social-democratic advance less likely, meaning any serious socialist politics must move more quickly toward rupture with capitalism. catalyst-journal.com/2026/09…
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I wrote a long piece for the new Catalyst on DSA.
Under socialism, Vivek Chibber argues, markets could become a tool rather than a master.
Bourgeois economics treats capitalism as simply a market economy.
Vivek Chibber traces how markets and private ownership worked under feudalism and under capitalism, and argues that socialism could use markets without restoring class society. jacobin.com/2026/09/markets-…
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Vivek Chibber recommends five essential books on empire, capitalism, dependency, and uneven development: jacobin.com/2026/09/five-boo…
Unions are more popular than they've been since the 1950s and weaker than they've been in a century.
Vivek Chibber on why socialists are needed to close that gap 👇
Historically, what socialists did was point unions away from just short-term and purely sectional demands into class-wide demands, which had deeper and more lasting benefits for the working class. jacobin.com/2026/09/unions-s…
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BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces a first-of-its-kind office focused on organizing workers in New York City.
The Mayor’s Office of Worker Power will provide workers with resources needed to organize their workplaces, hold public hearings on major worker issues, and more.
Every capitalist wants subsidies. No capitalist wants to be disciplined.
Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber on why the return of industrial policy could just mean corporate welfare with better branding 👇
Industrial policy is back in vogue in recent years — but without the working-class power to discipline capital, it's just public money flowing to private profit. jacobin.com/2026/08/industri…
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Six years since we lost our brother. RIP Michael Brooks.
From Catalyst 9, no. 4 👇
Given the structural constraints they face, the path to liberation for Palestinians does not run through armed struggle.
Liberation will require the kind of sustained international solidarity that isolated apartheid South Africa. jacobin.com/2026/07/israel-p…
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With public opinion swinging against brutal ICE raids and deportations over the past year, how should the Left respond?
Last chance to get the latest issue of Catalyst!
Subscribe for $20 to start with our latest issue, which includes essays on the Palestinian liberation movement, municipal socialism, Trump’s deportation agenda, and the carceral state.
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Even supercomputers won’t solve the problems inherent to central planning.
But that doesn’t mean we don’t need to replace capitalism with something better: jacobin.com/2026/05/central-…
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Central planners had a rational vision: replace the anarchy of the market with conscious coordination.
Vivek Chibber explains why calculation and incentive problems undermined that vision, but a different sort of socialism can still flourish. jacobin.com/2026/05/central-…
