Kagarlitsky v New Left Review

[Brad De Long]

>[apologies for the unparagraphed formatting]
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>Boris Kagarlitsky
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>The Suicide of New Left Review
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>  For forty years, New Left Review was a symbol for the radical
>  intelligentsia throughout the world. The articles carried in it were
>  more successful or less so, and the points of view presented in it
>  were astonishing for their superficial radicalism or for their
>  toothless moderation. Nevertheless, for all leftists who read
>  English, the journal remained a source of information on contemporary
>  Marxism. New names appeared on its pages, and discussions of
>  fundamental importance revolved around views expressed there.
>  Although NLR was published in Britain, and most of its authors were
>  based there or in the US, it was not only open to writers from other
>  countries, but in its essence, approach, structure and ideology,
>  constitued an international publication. Now, this journal is no
>  more. There is another journal which bears the same name, but this
>  latter periodical is fundamentally different, based on a
>  diametrically opposite concept. From January 2000, New Left Review
>  changed its editor, design and numbering. Before us we have number
>  one, a little exercise-book formated in post-modernist style. The
>  sub-head "Second Series" seems to presume that the journal will
>  survive for another forty years, and that there will perhaps be a
>  third and fourth series. The change of concept is declared in a

  foreword by Perry Anderson, under the expressive heading "Renewals"...

Do you have an e-copy of what Perry Anderson wrote, so I can compare 
what he wrote with what Kagarlitsky says he wrote?

Brad DeLong