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Julius Jacobson (1922 – March 8, 2003) was an Americansocialist writer and editor who editedAnvil,New International, andNew Politics, all publications in theThird Camp tradition of socialism, a democraticMarxist tradition sometimes called "Shachtmanite" after its significant theorist,Max Shachtman.
Jacobson came from an East EuropeanJewish immigrant family inNew York City. The family was politicallyleftist and he was politically active at a very young age, first joining theCommunist Party'sYoung Communist League, but soon leaving that group for theYoung People's Socialist League of theSocialist Party of America, where he became aTrotskyist and met his wifePhyllis Jacobson.
Drafted into military service duringWorld War II, he saw combat in Europe and participated in theliberation of Paris. While in Europe, he participated in contact between European and AmericanTrotskyists.
An early ally ofMax Shachtman andHal Draper, he followed them out of theSocialist Workers Party and with them was one of the founding members of theWorkers Party, later known as the Independent Socialist League, eventually becoming editor of its journalNew International.
Like Hal Draper, Jacobson was opposed to the merger of the ISL into theSocialist Party of America and to Shachtman's drift toward the right politically. Unlike Draper, he did not turn his energies toward creating a new socialist group, but rather into the creation of an independent journal,New Politics, in 1961, together withPhyllis Jacobson. He remained active as a writer and editor ofNew Politics up until his death in 2003.
In addition to his work published inAnvil,New International andNew Politics, Jacobson contributed to the following books:The American Communist Party. A critical history, 1919-1957 (pub 1957 withIrving Howe andLewis Coser),The Negro and the American Labor Movement (1968),Soviet Communism and the Socialist Vision (1972) andSocialist Perspectives (1983, with Phyllis Jacobson).
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