Jacobin Mag Lifetime subscription $595
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Jacobin Magazine are offering a lifetime subscription to the print magazine for $595 for international readers
https://www.jacobinmag.com/lifetime-subscriptions-2/
Is it worth it?
Not if the subscriber dies in the near future, or the magazine folds in the near future…A gamble i won't makeAnd as a anti-capitalist magazine, why does it suggest the price of $595 and not $600…that old advertisers psychological ploy of trying to make something appear cheaper than it is
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Something interesting in the Jacobin magazine for once, an article on Stephen Jay Gould, author of The Mismeasure of Man which refuted genetic determinism:https://jacobinmag.com/2017/05/stephen-jay-gould-science-race-evolution-climate-change
Quote:On November 7, 1917, the first workers' state was born out of a popular uprising.For a long century, socialists have looked back at the October Revolution — sometimes with rose-colored glasses, sometimes to play at simplistic counterfactual. But sometimes for good reason. After all, exploitation and inequality are still alive and well amid plenty. Even knowing how their story ended, we can learn from those who dared to fight for something better. Today, one hundred years after the fact, we remember both the triumph and tragedy of the October Revolution.Take a look at our recent series on the Russian Revolution, which includes China Miéville, Alexander Rabinowitch, and others. So far entries have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Kurdish, Portuguese, Spanish and, of course, Russian.We're also offering $19.17 print gift subscriptions all day to mark the occasion. Get one for a friend! (Since the price is below costs for us, it doesn't apply to renewals.)ALB wrote:BolloxActually, it is not really surprising that a magazine calling itself Jacobin should like Lenin. After all, didn't Lenin famously/notoriously say:
Quote:The Jacobin indissolubly linked to the organisation of the proletariat now conscious of its class interests, is precisely the social democratic revolutionary. (One Step Forward, Two Steps Back)In fact , won't this why they chose the title of the magazine they did?
Regardless of its pedigree, Jacobin is reaching an audience and it is getting reported by the msm."….The first run of tickets to “Capitalism: A Debate” sold out in a day. So the organizers, a pair of magazines with clear ideological affiliations, socialist Jacobin and libertarian Reason, found a larger venue: Cooper Union’s 960-capacity Great Hall. The event sold out once again, this time in eight hours.The debate pitted two socialist stalwarts, Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara and New York University professor Vivek Chibber, against the defenders of capitalism, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason’s editor in chief, and Nick Gillespie, the editor in chief of Reason.com and Reason TV.Chibber argued that the problem with capitalism is the power it has over workers. With the weakening of U.S. labor unions, “we have a complete despotism of the employers,” he said, leading to stagnant wages. When Mangu-Ward countered that Americans aren’t coerced on the job, the crowd erupted in laughter. “Every morning you wake up and you have a decision about whether or not you’re going to go to work,” she insisted, and the audience laughed again.Sunkara summed up his argument for socialism as a society that helped people tackle the necessities of life—food, housing, education, health care, childcare. “Wherever we end up, it won’t be a utopia,” he said. “It will still be a place where you might get your heart broken,” or feel lonely, or get indigestion.The arguments stayed mostly abstract. Sunkara and Chibber insisted their idea of democratic socialism shouldn’t be confused with the communist dictatorships that killed millions of people in the 20th century. Mangu-Ward and Gillespie likewise insisted on defending a capitalist ideal, not the current, corrupt reality. “Neither Nick nor I are fans of big business,” she said. “We’re not fans of crony capitalism.”…."https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-06/get-rid-of-capitalism-millennials-are-ready-to-talk-about-it
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