Socialist Review (US)

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Socialist Review (ISSN 0161-1801, originally titled Socialist Revolution) is a left-wing political and cultural journal published in the United States since 1970. At the end of 2002 it was renamed Radical Society: Review of Culture and Politics (ISSN 1476-0851).

Socialist Revolution, under its founding editor James Weinstein, began with a revolutionary perspective which was, however, very critical of the existing Marxist left (including the New Communist Movement as well as established organizations) which it saw as undemocratic both in its way of operating and in its political aspirations. In the 1970s and early 1980s SR was strongly associated with the New American Movement, and its politics in this period developed in a similar direction towards a more Social Democratic perspective. In the course of this development the journal was renamed Socialist Review in 1978, meanwhile absorbing the short-lived Marxist Perspectives.

Socialist Review came to be strongly associated with postmodern critical theory and evolved into an academic journal with a strong cultural element. Among the notable articles published in SR was Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs", the founding document of Cyborg theory.

In 2002 the journal's name was changed again, to Radical Society: A Review of Culture and Politics. From 2002 to 2003 it was published by the academic publisher Routledge. As of 2006, an independent publisher, Radical Society Ltd., took over publishing the journal and relaunched the Radical Society website, making past issues available online.

As of the end of 2006, the Editor-in-Chief of Radical Society is Timothy Don.