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 course of this development the magazine was renamed Socialist Review in 1978, meanwhile absorbing the short-lived Marxist Perspectives.
During this period, a careful reader could tell exactly which collective was responsible for which articles in the magazine, but to most observers it meant that Socialist Review reflected the diversity of positions available on the left.
A substantial archive of Socialist Review's editorial correspondence, manuscripts, and records was acquired by the Paley Library of Temple University in the 1990s.
[1] In the first issue or Radical Society, the editors wrote that the inspirations for the journal were "both old and new--from The Masses and Emma Goldman's Mother Earth to the Harlem Renaissance and the Paris Commune, from the end of the cold war to the beginnings of a new global justice movement".