Socialist Register 1965 Preface

Abstract

The Socialist Register, 1965, is the second of a series of annual volumes of socialist analysis and discussion. As we explained in our Preface to the 1964 volume, The Socialist Register was not conceived as a record of events of the previous year, or as a calendar or chronicle. "Our purpose," we wrote then, "is rather to select for analysis and discussion contemporary events, issues and ideas which are both of topical interest and also of lasting importance; and we intend also to publish more general essays and review-articles on major questions of socialist theory and practice." This has also been our aim in the present volume, and it explains why we do not "cover" large and important parts of the world. No such "coverage" is intended in any single volume.