During my first teaching experience, adjuncting at Brooklyn College, a professor about to retire passed on to me several years worth of his subscriptions to Socialist Revolution and Studies on the Left . With a few missing issues here and there, I still have most of them from 1964 to 1975 (SR began in 1970). In a recent move, I chose to keep them while donating 15 boxes of books to a local used bookstore. The history of these journals, particularly SR, chronicle the emergence and subsequent demise of t
Upon arriving in New York City to attend graduate school in the early 1970’s I was struck by the gravity and intense passion of students from Europe and Latin America. These young people, some of whom were related to members of underground organizations fighting for the overthrow of right wing governments in their home countries, were deeply serious about connecting theory with practice. Studying Marxian economics was not an idle pastime. The dust of history was almost visible on their shoulders. The atmo
The grounds upon which revolution is discussed in this country must first be formatted through the essential basis of America’s emergence as a property-holding oligarchy. An article by Richard Lichtman in the first issue of SR acknowledged this understanding by admitting Locke’s notion whereby humans are driven into society from a state of nature in which everyone is inherently equal in order to seek protection for the unequal ownership of property. Individual Property is a personal right; society only