{"id":3887,"date":"2013-01-25T10:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T17:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2013-01-26T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T18:29:19","slug":"hipsterian-marxism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/25\/hipsterian-marxism\/","title":{"rendered":"Hipsterian Marxism"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Young Publisher Takes Marx Into the Mainstream<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0JENNIFER SCHUESSLER<\/p>\n

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Erin Baiano for The New York Times<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n

When Bhaskar Sunkara was growing up in Westchester County, he likes to say, he dreamed of being a professional basketball player.<\/p>\n

But the height gods, among others, didn\u2019t smile in his favor. So in 2009, during a medical leave from his sophomore year at George Washington University, Mr. Sunkara turned to Plan B: creating a magazine dedicated to bringing jargon-free neo-Marxist thinking to the masses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no right to start a print publication when I was 21,\u201d he said in an interview in a cafe near his apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. \u201cLooking back, I see it as a moment of creative ignorance. You have to have enough intelligence to execute something like this but be stupid enough to think it could be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The resulting magazine,\u00a0Jacobin,<\/a>\u00a0whose ninth issue just landed, has certainly been an improbable hit, buoyed by the radical stirrings of the Occupy movement and a bitingly satirical but serious-minded style. Since its debut in September 2010 it has attracted nearly 2,000 print and digital subscribers, some 250,000 Web hits a month, regular name-checks from\u00a0prominent bloggers<\/a>, and book deals from two New York publishers.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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