> You link to this article as if the French Revolution isn’t indicated as the inspiration of the movement

No matter what way you cut it, the absolutely brutal chattel slavery was the inspiration of the movement, not Robespierre.

Yes, and good for them. That’s a fine reason to start a movement. It’s still the name and the magazine is still explicitly about the tradition of socialism. It’s still about as neutral as interviewing Trump in Breitbart, and only a few steps away from the neutrality of interviewing Stalin in Pravda.

I link to this article as an antidote to your pithy and hostile response, which flamed without actually looking at the source material.

For what it's worth Jacobin is on the whole a social democratic ("democratic socialist") publication, basically a mouthpiece of the DSA, and not particularly radical.

But saying it's a step-away from Pravda is about par for the course for the absolutely ideologically distorted "centre" of American politics within which someone like Obama can be labelled as "socialist" and mistakenly uses "socialist" as slur to describe anything that the government is involved in.

In any case, there was a time in which mainstream US publications would deign to interview people like Morales even when they were ideologically miles apart from them. Even Castro got some interview space in US newspapers back in the 60s. That time has past -- a coup was executed in Bolivia, justifications printed for it, a brutal racist regime installed, and "democrats" in the US sat back and said nothing.