Socialist Review.

Socialist Review ( SR ) was a periodical, initially associated with the New Left movement, which ran from 1970 to 2006 under the titles Socialist Revolution (1970-1978), Socialist Review (1978-2001), and Radical Society: Review of Culture and Politics (2002-2006). The journal focused on socialist discourses, its stated purpose in the first issue being “to help build the theoretical comprehension of advanced capitalism which is prerequisite to the development of mass socialist consciousness” ( Socialist Revolution 145). Over time, the journal also confronted issues surrounding feminism, gender and sexuality, international affairs, social justice, political and economic systems, cultural theory, and postmodern critical theory. Prominent intellectuals who contributed to the journal or participated in its editorial board included: Robert Allan, Debra Chasnoff, Dan Brook, Nancy Chodorow, Noam Chomsky, Gary Delgado, Kate Ellis, Barbara Epstein, Jeffrey Escoffier, Herbert Gintis, Carol Hatch, Dorothy Healey, Michael Kazin, Karl E. Klare, Michael Lerner, Steve McMahon, Robby Meerpol, Ruth Milkman, David Noble, Michael Omni, David Plotke, Pam Rosenthal, Martha Rosler, George Ross, Son Silliman, Albert Szymanski, James Weinstein, Howard Winant, and Eli Zaretsky.

Originally titled Socialist Revolution, the journal was founded by James Weinstein and Anne Farrar, former members of another leftist journal, Studies on the Left . They formed a collective in San Francisco, formally “The Center for Social Research and Education,” but informally referred to as “the SR collective.” Critical of perceived sectarianism in East Coast leftist movements, the SR collective entertained discussions of Marxist theory, Second and Third World experiments with communism, European social democracy, and other variants of socialism. “The journals’ founding mission was to try to develop a democratic socialist analysis appropriate to US conditions,” the SR collective wrote in a 20-year retrospective ( Unfinished Business 3).

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