A quarterly journal developing a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target. Published by @jacobin.
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The new issue of Catalyst is out now!
This issue has fantastic commentary on Palestinian liberation, sewer socialism, Trump’s immigration politics, mass incarceration, and much more.
Get a yearlong print subscription for just $20: catalyst-journal.com/subscri…
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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…
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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.
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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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Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy retweeted
Six years since we lost our brother. RIP Michael Brooks.
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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?
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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-…
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As our summer issue approaches, time is running out to get your copy of Teen Jacobin.
Only 20 bucks for four print issues and full digital access with an annual subscription: jacobin.com/subscribe/?code=…
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What might socialism look like in the 21st century — and what distinguishes that vision from social democracy?
Vivek Chibber of @catalyst_theory discusses on the latest episode of the Confronting Capitalism podcast: pnc.st/s/jacobin/e9c7f3b7/co…
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In celebration of May Day, we’re offering one-year digital subscriptions for just $1 and print ones for $10 — our most affordable rate of the entire year.
Subscribers get four beautiful issues of our magazine and access to our entire back catalog: jacobin.com/subscribe/?type=…
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"Zohran Mamdani is a test case for the type of politics that are possible right now." — @krystalball at Jacobin's live recording of the Confronting Capitalism podcast.
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Low ticket warning 🚨
Join us for a live recording of "Confronting Capitalism" with @krystalball, @karpmj, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek in Brooklyn on April 6.
🎟️: eventbrite.com/e/jacobin-who…
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Join us for a live recording of "Confronting Capitalism" with @krystalball, @karpmj, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek in Brooklyn on April 6.
🎟️ RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/jacobin-who…
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Markets in a socialist system — with social ownership, worker control, and competitive allocation — create the material surplus, embedded information, and dispersed initiative that makes large-scale planning and democracy in key sectors possible.
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Our special double issue of Catalyst is out today!
Subscribe to get instant digital access and a print copy shipped directly.
Featuring must-read articles on the history of central planning, the abundance agenda, the courts and capitalism, and more: catalyst-journal.com/subscri…
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