A word of explanation about the title of this article. It is shorthand
for Jacobin and the Bread and Roses Caucus in DSA, overlapping entities
as Doug Henwood pointed out in a New Republic article:
There are six votes from the Bread and Roses caucus on DSA’s
national political committee (NPC), effectively its board of
directors, not quite a third of the total of 19, giving the caucus a
serious, if not dominant, presence. Two of them are on the Jacobin
masthead (Chris Maisano and Ella Mahony), and another prominent
Bread and Roses member, Micah Uetricht, is the magazine’s managing
editor. The strong presence on the NPC and the affiliation with
Jacobin, the most influential publication on the American socialist
left these days, gets people to talking about a sect with its own
propaganda arm plotting to control the organization.
Probably most DSA’ers don’t have a clue about this ideological bloc and
are content to carry out worthy struggles in the hundreds of chapters
around the country but it is worrisome that people with so much power
over Jacobin, the de facto official journal of the DSA, can set the tone
for the organization.
Lately, several articles came to my attention that reflect a deepening
rightward dynamic in DSA that this bloc might push at the same time
there is a rise in the class struggle in the USA. It is as if they
believed it was still 1964, Johnson was in the White House, and Bayard
Rustin had the Democratic Party’s fawning attention. This social
democratic wet-dream is the sort of thing you’d expect to see in
Dissent, not a magazine that is named after French revolutionaries who
waged a bloody class struggle against feudal institutions.
Behind a paywall in the latest Jacobin, there’s an article by Dustin
Guastella titled “Everyone Hates the Democrats” that reduces the party’s
woes to focusing on the affluent, progressive-minded suburbs rather than
the white, blue-collar bastions that exist mostly in Guastella’s
imagination as if steel and auto defined the American economy rather
than Amazon. I use the word white even though it is implicit throughout
the article.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2021/03/18/whither-dsa-jacobin/
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