Perry Anderson redirected New Left Review toward Continental theory.

Evidence

As soon as the shift was made, Perry more or less didn’t go the editorial route, and decided that the editorial board was not his editorial board. He moved in new people. The journal became much more theoretical, much less involved in political practice, much less addressed to the British political conjuncture, very much more influenced by Parisian debates. Then they started translating, so a wave of Western Marxism is translated by them. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 941

Categorization

• XREF: Explains how Western Marxism (Althusser, Gramsci) entered British intellectual life — the very lineage the Islamophobia field’s scaffolding theory draws on.