Seth Ackerman

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Executive Editor at Jacobin

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Articles

JOHN QUIGGIN. Socialism with a spine: the only 21st century alternative

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | John Menadue |Seth Ackerman |Peter Frase

Socialism is back, much to the chagrin of those who declared it dead and buried at the end of history in the 1990s. When the New Republic, long the house organ of American neoliberalism, runs an article on The Socialism America Needs Now, its clear that something has fundamentally changed. The soft neoliberalism represented by Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Paul Keating has exhausted its appeal, and not just in the English-speaking world.
Bernie Is Right: 60% of Americans Live Paycheck to Paycheck

1 month ago | rsn.org | Seth Ackerman

Bernie Sanders says it over and over again: 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Centrist critics swear this is false. Once we sort through the noise, we see Bernie is right on the money. Bernie Sanders says it over and over again: 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. But Matt Darling, formerly of the Niskanen Center, swears it’s not true, and Dylan Matthews of Vox calls it a damned lie. Even Matt Yglesias is apparently on the case, but I’m blocked from seeing his posts.
Bernie Is Right: 60% of Americans Live Paycheck to Paycheck

1 month ago | jacobin.com | Seth Ackerman

Bernie Sanders says it over and over again: 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. But Matt Darling, formerly of the Niskanen Center, swears it’s not true, and Dylan Matthews of Vox calls it a damned lie. Even Matt Yglesias is apparently on the case, but I’m blocked from seeing his posts. Who’s right and who’s wrong? Who should we listen to? Bernie Sanders — a model citizen of our community? Or the infamous Vox-Niskanen syndicate? The answer is that Bernie is right.
De Levitzum

Aug 23, 2024 | sethackerman.substack.com | Seth Ackerman

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Gaza: The End of the Illusion.

Jul 31, 2024 | sethackerman.substack.com | Seth Ackerman

Israel’s blood-soaked debacle in Gaza now lumbers through its tenth month. Dwarfing the Bosnian (1992-95), Syrian (2011-2018), or Salvadoran (1979-1990) wars, it is killing Palestinians at a rate that, by conservative estimates, more closely approximates the Cambodian genocide of 1975-79.
No, Eastern Europe Isn’t Doomed to Right-Wing Rule

Mar 13, 2024 | goo.su | Roman Broszkowski |Cori Bush |Seth Ackerman

Before a media gaggle inside Poland’s parliament, this January 12 representatives of six organizations announced the creation of a new Central-Eastern European Green Left Alliance (CEEGLA). For its organizers — Poland’s Razem, Hungary’s Szikra Movement, Romania’s Demos, Ukraine’s Sotsialnyi Rukh, the Czech Republic’s Budoucnost, and Lithuania’s Kartu — the event represented the expression of a modern left in the region.
The Khmer Rouge Index: updated to Feb. 4, 2024

Feb 5, 2024 | sethackerman.substack.com | Seth Ackerman

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A lie is about to be exposed

Feb 5, 2024 | sethackerman.substack.com | Seth Ackerman

Although "Israel does not have to hold elections until 2026," write the Financial Times’s James Shotter and Neri Zilber, "the country's political class is positioning itself for a vote much sooner — as the veneer of unity that has covered Israeli politics since the outbreak of the war begins to fade." With polls seeming to show them benefiting from Netanyahu’s state of disgrace, centrist figures like Gadi Eisenkot and Yair Lapid are calling on Netanyahu to set a date for elections now.
Why Israel’s War Is Genocide - and Why Biden Is Culpable

Jan 26, 2024 | jacobin.com | Seth Ackerman

Since October, Israel has killed more than 25,000 Palestinians, an estimated 70 percent of them women and children, in what a leading scholar of aerial bombing has called “one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history.” Israel has been killing more than five times as many Gazans per day as the Nazis did, per capita, in the London Blitzkrieg.
There Was an Iron Wall in Gaza

Jan 4, 2024 | jacobin.com | Seth Ackerman

In a 1948 essay, “The Twilight of International Morality,” the international relations theorist Hans Morgenthau looked back at the bygone style of diplomacy practiced by the old aristocratic states of Europe — what might be called “traditional Realpolitik” — and ventured a contrarian argument: that behind its amoral facade and despite its reputation for cynicism and duplicity, it was always grounded in an inviolable ethical code.