The Left’s New Love

THE LEFT’S NEW LOVE

The editors of Monthly Review volunteer that theirs is a journal “edited for a Left readership,” and indeed that they consider themselves Marxists. Last summer they chose to devote a double issue (July-August 1984) to the blossoming romance between the secular and the religious Left. As they write, “It is now becoming clear—in what may turn out to be one of history’s most startling reversals—that … [a] widespread rapprochement [sic] between religion and the Left is actually taking place.” To illustrate this theme, the editors have gathered more than a dozen articles and excerpts that discuss favorite developments within the religious Left.

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THE LEFT’S NEW LOVE

The editors of Monthly Review volunteer that theirs is a journal “edited for a Left readership,” and indeed that they consider themselves Marxists. Last summer they chose to devote a double issue (July-August 1984) to the blossoming romance between the secular and the religious Left. As they write, “It is now becoming clear—in what may turn out to be one of history’s most startling reversals—that … [a] widespread rapprochement [sic] between religion and the Left is actually taking place.” To illustrate this theme, the editors have gathered more than a dozen articles and excerpts that discuss favorite developments within the religious Left.