"This Is Not Michael Harrington's DSA Anymore"

"Millennial recruits influenced by Jacobin's version of the socialist program—a suite of ambitious and uncompromising proposals that would anticipate many of the redistributive policies of the Sanders movement—began trickling into the orbit of DSA's leadership circle. The magazine helped stoke interest in socialism among a cohort who'd come of age during the Great Recession. These new supporters—call them the Jacobinites—knew from bitter experience that the neoliberal case for a trickle-down recovery was something close to farcical: Coming of age amid the savage 2008 recession made them highly suspicious of the promise of capitalist opportunity as they faced down a long-term descent into crippling debt, punctuated by a series of too many crappy jobs in the gig economy."

Doug Henwood at The New Republic discusses the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America.