Modern Quarterly (British journal)

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Modern Quarterly was a British Marxist journal founded in 1938 and was the first academic journal in Britain dedicated to Marxism.

It had an editorial council composed of:{{cite web |title=Modern Quarterly |url=https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19942217#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-0.0459%2C0.1371%2C0.9361%2C0.588 |website=Wellcome Library |publisher=Wellcome Library |access-date=7 April 2020 |language=en}}

• John Bernal
• Patrick Blackett
• V. Gordon Childe
• Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
• Benjamin Farrington
• J. B. S. Haldane
• Harold Laski
• Hyman Levy
• Peter Chalmers Mitchell
• Joseph Needham
• Roy Pascal
• Erich Roll
• Susan Stebbing
• George Thomson
• Barnet Woolf

From 1945 to 1953 the journal was edited by the Welsh Marxist philosopher John Lewis {{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Edwin A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZO1-mHHZchQC&dq=Modern+Quarterly+was+a+British+Marxist+journal&pg=PA88 |title=The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture |publisher=Rowman & Littlefields |year=1997 |isbn=9780847683963 |pages=88}} It was continuously published until 1953 when it became the Marxist Quarterly. It was closely associated with the Communist Party of Great Britain.{{Cite book|title = British Marxist Criticism|last = Paananen|first = Victor N.|publisher = Routledge|year = 2013|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Lx5jc7xEp5sC|isbn = 9781134817252|pages = 23}}{{Cite book|title = A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the Mainstream in the Twentieth Century|last = Lee|first = Frederic|publisher = Routledge|year = 2009|isbn = 9781135970222|pages = 119|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2emSAgAAQBAJ&dq=Modern+Quarterly+was+a+British+Marxist+journal&pg=PA119}}