Critique

Aims & Scope

Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory is an independent, refereed, scholarly journal founded in 1973.

It attempts to analyse contemporary society from a critical Marxist perspective.

Critique takes the view that Marxism has been so degraded by the Stalinist period that much of what has passed for Marxism has ranged between incoherent nonsense and empty if complex scholastic schema.

Since socialism in one country is a theoretical and practical impossibility, Critique rejected and continues to reject analyses purporting to show this or that country is or was socialist.

Furthermore, Critique emphatically insists on the impossibility of an undemocratic socialism.

The aim of Critique is to take part in the restoration of the earlier pre-eminence of Marxist thought by encouraging discussion around the political economy of contemporary capitalist and non-capitalist societies.

For this purpose, it regards debate around methodology and as a consequence philosophy to be essential.

Inevitably, contemporary political economy must also involve debate around the importance of historical events and so Critique encourages contributions of historical analysis.

In short, Critique's aim is to publish theoretical work at various levels of abstraction from the most profound to that of analytical description in order to help provide the theory required for socialist change, which with the end of Stalinism is once more on the agenda.

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Metrics & Ranking

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	12

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29344

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	12

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.103

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• From Marx to Goldman Sachs: The Fictions of Fictitious Capital, and the Financialization of Industry

  Citation: 46

  Authors: Michael

• Security, Commodity, Fetishism

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Mark

• <i>Das Kapital</i>: A Critique of the Labor Theory of Value

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Norman

• The ‘Young Marx’ Myth in Interpretations of the<i>Economic–Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844</i>

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Marcello

• Marx's Vision of communism a reconstruction

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Bertell

• Rosa Luxemburg's<i>Accumulation of Capital</i>: A Centennial Update with Additions from Long Wave Theory and Karl Polanyi's<i>Great Transformation</i>

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Ingo

• Global Capital, National State, and the International

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Werner

• Democracy and Dictatorship: Means and Ends of the State

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Werner

• Towards a political economy of the USSR

  Citation: 14

  Authors: H.H.

• Walls of Silence: Translating the Armenian Genocide into Turkish and Self-Censorship

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Nazan

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