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Jacobin #45
Infrastructure
How did we go from Build Back Better to Build Back Never? Featuring a new look and almost 200 pages of content from Jeremy Corbyn, Azmat Khan, Anand Gopal, Owen Hatherley, Christian Lorentzen, Hadas Thier, Alex Press and many others, we know you'll enjoy this issue.
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Published June 7, 2022
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September 19, 2022
the large-format new design is egregious in several regards. instead of using it to dive deeper into subject matter, the magazine is packed to the brim with 500 word articles that provide only snippets of perspective. making things worse, the design choice to have several of these grace the very same page via a confusing plethora of sidebars and headers/footers reflects the general cacophony of the magazine's political position. i found myself more willing to skim and skip its contents. while the faux ikea modernism of early jacobin had its detractors, the new design choices aren't intuitive or radical--leaning more towards a regrettable Adbusters aesthetic than marxism.
it's a shame, because all this makes some of its more laudable content liable to be missed: tim gill's article on kucinich versus private power is compelling, hadas thier on privatization of water needs to be grappled with, and the magazine even features perhaps jacobin's first ever article admitting that TVA wasn't a perfect socialist modernization project. the best development is probably the new international section (which i assume will be a fixture). its one arena where the magazine tends to lag behind dsa: in the past, it has veered towards a boring atlanticism rather than a soladaristic anti-imperialist internationalism; to the extent that it has treated international issues, it has opted to find hope in the most boring analogues of its own social democracy. there is a big of hope in these pages for a more interesting opening--articles examining PPP infrastructure projects in Africa, for instance, cannot so easily be fit in to either the standard electoral or modernist boxes.
the magazine, much like that which it purports to represent (dsa), has been at a crossroads for a few issues now, with Sunkara leaving for The Nation and the institutional left caught between its desires to influence Democratic Party policy, and its purported grounding in labor struggles (and perhaps others--though the characteristic scorn for ecological concern is on display here, except for Michael Stipe getting a pass for allowing NRDC tabling at REM shows). up for another auto-renewal, i'll stick it out and see if things take a turn.
it's a shame, because all this makes some of its more laudable content liable to be missed: tim gill's article on kucinich versus private power is compelling, hadas thier on privatization of water needs to be grappled with, and the magazine even features perhaps jacobin's first ever article admitting that TVA wasn't a perfect socialist modernization project. the best development is probably the new international section (which i assume will be a fixture). its one arena where the magazine tends to lag behind dsa: in the past, it has veered towards a boring atlanticism rather than a soladaristic anti-imperialist internationalism; to the extent that it has treated international issues, it has opted to find hope in the most boring analogues of its own social democracy. there is a big of hope in these pages for a more interesting opening--articles examining PPP infrastructure projects in Africa, for instance, cannot so easily be fit in to either the standard electoral or modernist boxes.
the magazine, much like that which it purports to represent (dsa), has been at a crossroads for a few issues now, with Sunkara leaving for The Nation and the institutional left caught between its desires to influence Democratic Party policy, and its purported grounding in labor struggles (and perhaps others--though the characteristic scorn for ecological concern is on display here, except for Michael Stipe getting a pass for allowing NRDC tabling at REM shows). up for another auto-renewal, i'll stick it out and see if things take a turn.
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