American socialist magazine
New Politics is an independent
socialist journal founded in 1961 and still published in the
United States today. While it is inclusive of articles from a variety of left-of-center positions, the publication is historically associated with a "Neither Washington Nor Moscow!"
Third Camp, democratic
Marxist perspective, placing it typically to the
left of the
social democratic views in the journal
Dissent.
Overview
Julius and
Phyllis Jacobson were the founders and longtime co-editors of the journal, which had a political center of gravity reflective of their youthful formative experience in the
Independent Socialist League of the 1940s and 1950s. During the
Cold War, New Politics espoused the idea that
socialism is indissoluble from
democracy and
freedom and argued strongly against
totalitarian
Communist states and authoritarian visions of
socialism as corruptions of and departures from the socialist ideal. The journal is perhaps best known for having published the seminal article by
Hal Draper, "
The Two Souls of Socialism," in 1966. It was also the first English-language publication to publish articles by the dissident Polish socialists
Jacek Kuroń and
Karol Modzelewski.
The first series of New Politics ran from 1961 through 1976, after which it ceased publication for a decade. The journal was restarted in 1986 and has been in print ever since, publishing two issues per year.
The current[
when?] co-editors are Saulo Colón,
Dan La Botz, Nancy Holmstrom, Jason Schulman, and Julia Wrigley, and its editorial board members are Barry Finger, Thomas Harrison, Michael Hirsch, Micah Landau, Scott McLemee,
Stephen R. Shalom,
Bhaskar Sunkara, Lois Weiner, and Reginald Wilson. For many years Joanne Landy was a member of the editorial board until her death in 2017.
Contributors have included
Michael Albert,
Bettina Aptheker,
Stanley Aronowitz,
Elaine Bernard,
Janet Biehl,
Ian Birchall,
Murray Bookchin,
Johanna Brenner,
Stephen Eric Bronner,
Paul Buhle,
Eric Chester,
Tony Cliff,
Noam Chomsky,
Bogdan Denitch,
Hal Draper,
Martin Duberman,
Martin Glaberman,
Robin Hahnel,
Herbert Hill,
Doug Ireland,
Staughton Lynd,
Sidney Lens,
Nelson Lichtenstein,
Michael Löwy,
Manning Marable,
Sean Matgamna,
Paul Mattick,
Kim Moody,
Christopher Phelps,
Adolph Reed,
David Roediger,
Saskia Sassen,
Jane Slaughter,
Immanuel Wallerstein,
Stan Weir,
Cornel West,
B. J. Widick,
Ashley Dawson,
Ellen Willis,
Kevin B. Anderson,
Dan Georgakas,
Patrick Bond,
Sharon Smith,
Christian Parenti,
David Bacon,
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,
Gilbert Achcar and
Howard Zinn.
References
- Worcester, Kent. "New Politics," in The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 2d ed., ed.
Mari Jo Buhle,
Paul Buhle, and
Dan Georgakas (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998): 555–556.
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