Science & Society
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Science & Society is the oldest continuously-published journal of Marxist scholarship still extant.
It publishes peer reviewed essays in economics, philosophy of science, historiography, women's studies, literature, the arts, and other social science disciplines. As well as covering social and political theory it includes first-order historical research.
[edit] History
The magazine has been published quarterly since 1936.
[edit] Editorial philosophy
The editorial board tries to ensure that its output is both groundbreaking and comprehensible, and "does not attempt to define precise boundaries for Marxism". Its self description is:
- "A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis"
Every quarter the editorial addresses a significant topic in the intellectual mainstream from the marxist perspective. These editorials explicitly and implicity call for greater marxist engagement in the broader academic debate. For instance, in 2001 writing on Neo-classical economics:
- "To put it in a nutshell: we cannot abandon the field of abstraction to the neoclassical hegemon". ([1])
Guilford publications (which distributes the magazine online here) gives the current editor as Professor David Laibman.
