Reaching a segmented market with radical views isn’t exactly revolutionary in and of itself, but at the very least the coverage is pissing off the right people. And it’s not just the left echo chamber that’s reading these articles - Teen Vogue receives around ten million monthly page views and has over twelve million social media followers, many of them young women. However, it’s certainly an important sign of the times and the growing influence of anticapitalism that its politics editor and author of some of the publication’s best pieces, Lucy Diavolo, spoke at this July’s Socialism Conference in Chicago. It hasn’t gone unnoticed by the rest of the media, with Quartz going as far as to say that the publication was “terrifying men like Donald Trump.”
Since 2016, bolstered by the contributions of radicals like Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue has made a curious transformation into a venue that mixes standard fare culture writing with political primers like “Everything You Need to Know About General Strikes” and “Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar.” Could Condé Nast be publishing the best mainstream forum for progressive views?
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