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Studies on the Left was a journal of New Left radicalism in the United States published between 1959 and 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin, and later in New York City.

Its authors, at first mostly graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, came to include most of the major figures of sixties radicalism, and not only from the United States. Writers for Studies on the Left included Martin J. Sklar, Murray Rothbard, Lee Baxandall, James Weinstein, Eleanor Hakim, Michael Lebowitz, Ronald Radosh, Gabriel Kolko, James B. Gilbert, Saul Landau, Lloyd Gardner, Eugene D. Genovese, Norman Fruchter, Staughton Lynd, Ronald Aronson, William Appleman Williams, Raymond Williams, and Tom Hayden.

The journal's republication of C. Wright Mills' "Letter to the New Left" in 1961 (originally published in New Left Review in 1960)^[1]
marked one of the first uses of the "New Left" in American discourse.
The journal's chief claim to theoretical distinction was in the concept
of "corporate liberalism" as a descriptive term for the twentieth-century economic and political system typified by the United States and characterized by a warfare-welfare state.

The journal advocated a socialism distinct from the variant then found in the Soviet Union, and was important in the rebirth of a critical intellectual life in the 1960s after the McCarthyism of the 1950s. It was succeeded, under the editorial guidance of James Weinstein, by Socialist Revolution and then by Socialist Review.(wikipedia)

Studies on the Left
was a socialist journal published first in Madison, Wisconsin, and then
in New York City. It was founded by a group of graduate students at the
University of Wisconsin “to encourage socialist analyses in the social
and natural sciences, literature and the arts.” The original board of
editors included representatives from the disciplines of history,
economics, political science, sociology, and the language arts.

The first issue of the journal was
published in December, 1959, and contained articles by Hans Gerth, Paul
Breslow, Lloyd Gardner, and David Eakins, with a “Documents” section and
several book reviews. It was well received by the reviewers and the
initial printing of 3000 copies was soon sold out. Studies on the Left
was conceived as a quarterly, but succeeding issues were printed at
irregular intervals, and usually appeared much later than scheduled.
Until the spring of 1963, the magazine was issued from Madison, but with
the departure of many of the editors and associates for the East Coast,
it was decided to transfer operations to New York. Beginning with
volume VI (1966), Studies on the Left
became a bi-monthly publication, which it remained until its demise in
the summer of 1967. The last number of the journal was volume VII, no. 2
(March-April, 1967).

The financing of Studies on the Left
was a major problem from the very beginning, and as the years went by
it became increasingly difficult to keep the journal solvent. Revenue
from subscriptions and bookstore sales was not sufficient to cover the
costs of publication, and the editors were increasingly forced to depend
on contributions from readers and foundations. Although circulation
reached 10,000 copies per issue in the 1965-1966 period, declining sales
and increased expenditures forced the suspension of publication shortly
thereafter.

The editors, associates, and many of the
contributors were close friends, and an informal atmosphere prevailed
within the organization. Personal conflicts were not entirely absent,
however, and ideological differences sometimes provoked serious
dissension and impaired the functioning of the magazine. Several of the
editors and associates resigned, at one time or another, due to
misunderstandings derived, in part, from the closeness of the staff.