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Here
it is, then: Universities and Left Review. Very well got up,
good typography; indeed, the Abbey Press (the people who print it)
are to be complimented on having a range of bold, large and display
types almost sufficient to keep up with the editors' delight in
Names. The cover bears the contributors' names (Isaac Deutscher,
Claude Bourdet, Peter de Francia, E. P. Thompson, G. D. H. Cole, Joan
Robinson, etc..) in massive black letters, their topics in small
ones. ( . . . )
What
purpose, then, does the Universities and Left Review serve?
Pretentious, empty of ideas, its material picked from ideological
dust-heaps, it has set out to make a splash—or, as the first
editorial put it, to take a beachhead. Its avowed purpose is to
publish discussion on “the common ground of a genuinely free and
genuinely socialist society.” Its way, the editors say, is “to
take socialism at full stretch — as relevant only in so far as it
is relevant to the full scale of man's activities.”
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