Modern Quarterly (British journal)

The Modern Quarterly
Cover of vol.4, №1, (winter 1948-9)
SubjectMarxism
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJohn Lewis (1945-53)
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FrequencyQuarterly
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The Modern Quarterly was a British Marxist journal founded in 1938 and was the first academic journal in Britain dedicated to Marxism.

Editorship

It had an editorial council composed of John Bernal, Patrick Blackett, V. Gordon Childe, Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, Benjamin Farrington, J. B. S. Haldane, Harold Laski, Hyman Levy, Peter Chalmers Mitchell, Joseph Needham, Roy Pascal, Erich Roll, Susan Stebbing, George Thomson, and Barnet Woolf.[1]

History

From 1945 to 1953 the journal was edited by the Welsh Marxist philosopher John Lewis [2] It was continuously published until 1953 when it became the Marxist Quarterly. It was closely associated with the Communist Party of Great Britain.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Modern Quarterly". Wellcome Library. Wellcome Library. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  2. ↑ Roberts, Edwin A. (1997). The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture. Rowman & Littlefields. p. 88. ISBN 9780847683963.
  3. ↑ Paananen, Victor N. (2013). British Marxist Criticism. Routledge. p. 23. ISBN 9781134817252.
  4. ↑ Lee, Frederic (2009). A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the Mainstream in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 119. ISBN 9781135970222.