Memo

From The New International, Vol. XVII No. 6, November-December 1951, p. 314.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

In this issue we conclude the series of articles on The Permanent War Economy by T.N. Vance. The series has been running all year, and taken as a whole represents a really solid contribution to the economic analysis of what is rapidly developing into a whole historical period of American capitalism.

The readers who have written us about the series have been, by and large, enthusiastic. Even those who find they have disagreements with the author, generally seem to feel that his work presents a reasoned and documented approach to the problem involved. We are firmly convinced that in the months and years ahead people both inside and outside the Marxist tradition will be turning to these articles as an invaluable theoretical guide to understanding the economy and the politics which are so closely linked to it.

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The thought of using the New International for reference purposes leads our mind naturally to the problem of the bound volumes of the magazine. And for us, this has become a real problem. As we go to press, the issues for 1950 have not yet been bound. The reason is simple enough: we have not yet been able to find the money. And the reason for that is even simpler: not enough readers have been buying past bound volumes to furnish us with the money to bind the new ones.

Regrettable as this may seem to us from a financial point of view, we feel that it will seem much more regrettable to readers of the magazine who, in future years, will find that not having provided themselves with bound volumes, they are unable to use the invaluable material which has appeared in it. There is simply no other way of keeping complete files, in readable shape.

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Correction

In the comment by Alfred Rosmer on Natalia Trotsky’s letter in the last issue, a line was unfortunately misplaced on page 282. The full phrase reads: “Marx once found himself in a similar situation, when, no longer recognizing himself in the ‘Marxism’ of Hyndman, he exclaimed: ‘If that is Marxism, I am not a Marxist.’”

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