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Jacobin has been around for a while now. Its first print issue appeared in Winter 2011 and it has since become a fixture of the NYC Left. This is due in no small part to capitalizing on the unanticipated and ambivalent “success” of the Wall Street wing of the Occupy movement, the novel aspects of which the journal otherwise tended to downplay, disparage, or ignore. The journal’s origins are humble enough, having begun as a pet project of the youth wing of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Much of its vibrancy should be attributed to the obvious talents of its precocious, enterprising editor and publisher, Bhaskar Sunkara, who often touts this publishing project as just one of his many “hustles.” Early on, it received the vampiric blessings of the New York Times, and aging relics performed the laying on of hands.
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