Founded mainly by the professors and graduate students of the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the first issue of Rethinking Marxism appeared in 1988, just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union began.
Gegründet von Professoren und Studenten der University of Massachusetts Amherst, erschien die erste Ausgabe 1988 kurz vor dem Auseinanderbrechen der Sowjetunion.