Marxism Today

Marxism Today was a British magazine published by the Communist Party of Great Britain and was considered the authoritative publication for theory questions. She walked out of the quarterly journal Marxism Quarterly forth ( to 1954 Modern Quarterly ), which was adjusted during the heavy party crisis 1956/1957. Marxism Today was published monthly from September 1957 and led the subtitles Theoretical and Discussion Journal of the Communist Party. As editor functioned until 1977, the historian James Wiseman. Meanwhile - recommended, among others, Eric Hobsbawm - successor Martin Jacques, the magazine played an important role in the factional struggles in the CPGB in which they emerged as the most active advocate of the Euro -Communist wing from November 1977. The extent of the responsibility of Marxism Today for the decline and the eventual (self-) resolution of the CPGB is the subject of ongoing controversy. In the second half of the 80s, the magazine adopted almost entirely from Marxist positions and acted - although officially until recently a member of the British Communist Party - as a platform for discussion of a left- liberal academic in the main public. In this phase, they attracted writers like Ralf Dahrendorf, André Gunder Frank, Louis Althusser, Ernesto Laclau, David Marquand and Chantal Mouffe. With the December issue of 1991, the magazine ceased publication. In the last issue, the editors printed among other things, a letter to the then managing director of the Conservative Party ( Chris Patten ) from where this - let it be known - with regard to the role of the magazine in the years before quite ambiguous: " I shall miss you. " the editor of the Morning Star and many years of inner-party opponents of Jacques Tony Chater, however, wrote to the same place that Marxism Today "has turned into Gradually to eclectic, yuppified magazine of little interest to most marxists. "