A great issue of New Review. The last before the War and everything, including the conversations and debates in New Review and the larger left, was transformed. Don’t miss Austin Lewis, Maud Thompson, and Max Eastman’s articles.

The New Review. Vol. 2 No. 8. August, 1914. Feminist Symposium Issue.

Contents: Feminism by Marie Jenney Howe, Feminism and Socialism by Louise W. Kneeland, Socialism and Feminism: A Reply to Belfort Bax by Maud Thompson, Some Anti-Feminist Vagaries by Frances G. Richard, Direct Primaries by Isaac A. Hourwich, Movements of Migratory Unskilled Labor in California by Austin Lewis, The Great American Scapegoat by Max Eastman, A “Socialist” Advocate of Plutocracy by William English Walling, Socialism vs. the State, The New Tory Party, The Constitution of Peace, Wilson Roosevelt and the Trusts, Roosevelt Reactionary, Congress of German Labor Unions, Revolutionary Berlin, Radicals and Socialists in France, An Irish Labor Party, The March of Collectivism.

The New Review: A Critical Survey of International Socialism was a New York-based, explicitly Marxist, sometimes weekly/sometimes monthly theoretical journal begun in 1913 and was an important vehicle for left discussion in the period before World War One. Bases in New York it declared in its aim the first issue: “The intellectual achievements of Marx and his successors have become the guiding star of the awakened, self-conscious proletariat on the toilsome road that leads to its emancipation. And it will be one of the principal tasks of The NEW REVIEW to make known these achievements,to the Socialists of America, so that we may attain to that fundamental unity of thought without which unity of action is impossible.” In the world of the East Coast Socialist Party, it included Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, Herman Simpson, Louis Boudin, William English Walling, Moses Oppenheimer, Robert Rives La Monte, Walter Lippmann, William Bohn, Frank Bohn, John Spargo, Austin Lewis, WEB DuBois, Arturo Giovannitti, Harry W. Laidler, Austin Lewis, and Isaac Hourwich as editors. Louis Fraina played an increasing role from 1914 and lead the journal in a leftward direction as New Review addressed many of the leading international questions facing Marxists. International writers in New Review included Rosa Luxemburg, James Connolly, Karl Kautsky, Anton Pannekoek, Lajpat Rai, Alexandra Kollontai, Tom Quelch, S.J. Rutgers, Edward Bernstein, and H.M. Hyndman, The journal folded in June, 1916 for financial reasons. Its issues are a formidable and invaluable archive of Marxist and Socialist discussion of the time.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/newreview/1914/v2n08-aug-1914.pdf