Our journal is now entering its fifth year of activities, and we are proud that many people find our journal, read it, and submit papers. We are pleased to announce a new branch in our operations.

For a regular journal, even if we publish only digitally, we have to adhere to some flexible constraints. In particular, we seek papers that help us to foster the discussions and outlooks on Marxism as a worldview in relation to the latest results of the sciences at large: Humanities, Economy, Sociology, and the Natural Sciences. That means that some works are necessary long, because they address novel insights and results. These papers must be written in a not too academic style and of a comprehensiveness that enables outsiders of the subject to participate in the discussions, without deep subject knowledge, but want to go beyond the level of popular science books.

For that kind of studies, we open a new irregular publication channel, which we name: Studies in Marxism and Sciences.

The idea is that these studies are not reviews in the tradition of literature overviews, nor monographs: treatises that provide an exhaustive study of a specific topic.

We envision papers that might be defined as between worked-out research proposals and an elaborate discussion of the merits of some scientific problem from a historical materialist point of view. The subject might be in all fields from biochemistry to ecology, from self-consciousness to angst and the soothing role of religion, as well as the notion of Marxian dialectics versus formal Aristotelian logic, and obviously studies on the history of the socialist movement and Marxist economy.

The length of a study is open, although not unlimited. Submissions will be read by more than one editor of the journal, and if deemed necessary, sent out for review by specialists outside our immediate intellectual environment. We expect that authors have a broad, intimate knowledge of the subject, and we prefer that the studies are not written in the ossified template of formal academic papers. The style must be readable, terms must be explained, footnotes must be relevant, and name-dropping must be avoided.

The studies must be written in such a way that they can be used for educational purposes and/or round table discussions.