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By Gletkin
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Science & Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis
S&S's Home Page wrote:Published quarterly since 1936, Science & Society is the longest continuously published journal of Marxist scholarship, in any language, in the world.

Science & Society is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of Marxist scholarship. It publishes original studies in political economy and the economic analysis of contemporary societies: social and political theory; philosophy and methodology of the natural and social sciences; history, labor, ethnic and women's studies; aesthetics, literature and the arts. We especially welcome theoretical and applied research that both breaks new ground in a specific discipline, and is intelligible and useful to non-specialists.

Science & Society does not adhere to any particular school of contemporary Marxist discussion, and does not attempt to define precise boundaries for Marxism. It does encourage respectful attention to the entire Marxist tradition, as well as to cutting-edge tools and concepts from the present-day social science literatures

S&S's History & Prospectus Page wrote:In the early decades, Science & Society had a strong base in the non-academic political left, in a time when "ordinary" working people felt comfortable studying political economy, reading critiques of the leading mainstream intellectual figures of the time, or debating the "situation in the biological sciences" (S&S was an early critic of T. D. Lysenko).

"Peer-reviewed" is synonomous with "academic".
Why their retreat into The Ivory Tower and away from "'ordinary' working people"? Or was it a hard truth that ordinary working people had turned away from them?
Science & Society...the original latte-sipping Bolshy eggheads!
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By Vera Politica
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I would like to say that the post-soviet turn in Marxism has actually been the opposite. That is, Marxist scholarship was well established in Western universities prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union - notably in history, economics, sociology and continental philosophy. Now it has been largely eradicated from economics (and those Marxist economics who have survived in academia teach, mostly, the history of economics) - it is still of some influence in historiography and is tacitly worked with in sociology and the social sciences (but I am unsure whether there is any serious Marxist work in this field). In continental philosophy is is slightly kicking, but Marx is now largely ignored in the history of philosophy and, more and more, has become a sort of grandfather figure in philosophical projects Marx would have never endorsed.

It is not that Marxism has retreated into academia - quite the opposite, it has been forced out.
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By Nets
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Now it has been largely eradicated from economics (and those Marxist economics who have survived in academia teach, mostly, the history of economics)


I'm not sure this is true. I don't think Marxist economists were "eradicated" so much as they "died out". There has been no purge of Marxism from economics departments anymore than there has been a purge of (old) Keynesianism, Monetarism or Austrian nonsense.

Vera, if you have any sources to the contrary I'd be happy to read them.
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By Vera Politica
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^Nets,

That was a poor choice of words - I did not mean to imply that they were in any sense 'purged' or forcefully removed. 'Dying out' in academia, however, doesn't necessarily imply that a subject matter simply falls out of interest or relevance (there are certainly some 'power-relations' (so to speak) at play when it comes to directing current research, but I think this applies equally to all subjects).

When I say 'forced out' I use it as a term that applies equally to most if not all subjects that have fallen into academic disrepute. I do not mean a direct, planned 'eradication' but I also do not think that subjects simply fall out of academic interest or relevance in some natural way.
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