 "Socialist Revolution", under its founding editor James Weinstein, began with a revolutionary perspective which was, however, very critical of the existing Marxist left (including the New Communist Movement as well as established organizations), which it saw as undemocratic both in its way of operating and in its political aspirations.In the 1970s and early 1980s, the magazine was strongly associated with the New American Movement (which in 1983 would merge with another organization to become the Democratic Socialists of America) and its politics in this period developed in a similar direction towards a more Social Democratic perspective.In the course of this development the magazine was renamed "Socialist Review" in 1978, meanwhile absorbing the short-lived "Marxist Perspectives".