The Center for Social Research and Education published the magazine titled Socialist Revolution. The journal was founded by James Weinstein and Anne Farrar, former members of another leftist journal, Studies on the Left. They formed a collective in San Francisco, formally “The Center for Social Research and Education,” and informally referred to as “the SR collective.” Critical of perceived sectarianism in East Coast leftist movements, the SR collective entertained discussions of Marxist theory, Second and Third World experiments with communism, European social democracy, and other variants of socialism. The journal's founding mission was to “develop a democratic socialist analysis appropriate to U.S. conditions.”