Contemporary Marxism, No.4, Winter 1981-82. Marlene Dixon, Susanne Jonas, and Tony Platt, eds. San Francisco: Institute for the Study of Labor and Economic Crisis, published twice yearly.

The single copy we have of this journal is a special issue on the "World Capitalist Crisis and the Rise of the Right." The ISLEC was founded in 1977 by a group of concerned professionals and social scientists; they also published a sister journal, Crime and Social Justice, which focused on issues in criminology. In the U.S., the late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed the last gasp of the sort of Marxian academic research that knew enough to use phrases like "interlocking corporate directorates." Too bad, because by now they'd probably be feeding us plenty of important data on corporate raiders, S & L crooks, and junk-bond moguls.

The article we indexed from this issue is an excellent piece on the religious right and their big-money backers, based on research commissioned by the Word Student Christian Federation in July, 1980. It's nostalgic to see something that's thorough and readable, and uses sources such as IRS Form 990s, various Who's Whos, and the Stock Ownership Directory Series. What happened to research like this now that we really need it?

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