The New Review. Vol. 1 No. 13. March, 29, 1913.

Paul Lafargue’s essay, also known as ‘The Historical Method of Karl Marx,’ linked to online text here.

The New Review. Vol. 1 No. 13. March, 29, 1913.

Contents: Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Monopoly by Herman Simpson, Internal Struggles in the British Bourgeoisie by Theodore Rothstein, Woodrow Wilson and the Class Struggle by Wm. English Waiting, Strike Tactics by Phillips Russell, The Spill-Way of the Morning Moon by A William Lloyd, Concerning Historical Materialism Translated by Richard Perin I. The Socialist Critics by Paul Lafargue, The Cry of a Feminist by Mary S. Oppenheimer, Why Madero Failed by Dolores Butterfield, The Cup by Louise W. Kneeland.

New Review 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. In the world of the Socialist Party, it included Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, Herman Simpson, Louis Boudin, William English Walling, Moses Oppenheimer, Walter Lippmann, William Bohn, Frank Bohn, John Spargo, Austin Lewis, WEB DuBois, Maurice Blumlein, Anton Pannekoek, Elsie Clews Parsons, and Isaac Hourwich as editors and contributors. Louis Fraina played an increasing role from 1914 on, leading the journal in a leftward direction as New Review addressed many of the leading international questions facing Marxists. The journal folded in June, 1916 for financial reasons. Its issues are a formidable archive of pre-war US Marxist and Socialist discussion.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/newreview/1913/v1n13-mar-29-1913.pdf

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