SHOCKER: Report: Socialist media maven is a “robber baron.”

America’s most prominent socialist media mogul is more robber baron than Robin Hood, according to former staffers.

Writers at Tribune, one of Great Britain’s most storied leftist publications, thought their financial struggles were solved when Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara arrived. Those hopes were short-lived, according to a new story in Payday Report. The staffers fought to keep the publication alive, despite the end of its print magazine in January and delays in collecting money for their contributions. The company was effectively bankrupt having spent 120,000 pounds annually while revenues remained 10,000 pounds.

In a letter first obtained by Payday Report these writers said they agreed to take reduced pay following Sunkara’s rescue of the magazine. The socialist publisher paid out 70 percent of the money owed to these staffers, but reneged on his promise to keep them employed.

“It is almost as though, once we had been ‘paid off,’ you had decided that we could comfortably be cast aside completely,” Mike Parker said in the letter addressed to Sunkara. “Perhaps you suspected that if we had not received this false promise of involvement we would have been reluctant to accept that 70 per cent.”

Weird, a socialist in charge and everyone’s broke and unemployed except him? Go figure.