Marxist Humanism
Exerts from Philosophy and Revolution
Excerts from Raya Dunayevskaya's Philosophy & Revolution
1973
Julius Nyerere, African socialist
Julius Nyerere, African socialist
I have turned "Black World" over to Kevin Anderson this month for the following in memoriam to former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere who died in October.-Lou Turner
by Kevin Anderson
With the death of Julius Nyerere, the world has lost one of the foremost proponents of African Socialism. Nyerere's humanist vision known as UJAMAA influenced several generations of Africans as well as many throughout the world concerned with African liberation.
Death of the Death of the Subject
The Death of the Death of the Subject
Peter Hudis
The conversion of the subject into the predicate, and of the predicate into the subject, the exchange of that which determines for that which is determined, is always the most immediate revolution.
- Karl Marx, Kreuznach Notebooks 1
Can capital be controlled?
Can capital be controlled?
by Peter Hudis
The protest against the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle at the end of 1999 has brought us to a new stage of development. It wasn't just a protest against the WTO. It was a protest against what the WTO stands for-a world capitalist system based on vast income inequities, sweatshops, environmental destruction, and racial and sexual discrimination. The way thousands of workers, students, feminists, gays and lesbians, environmentalists, and Third World activists came together to oppose globalization has raised questions like: What is the alternative to the WTO? Is it possible to go beyond global capitalism? And if so, what road must be taken to get there?
Marx's unchaining of the dialectic
Marx's unchaining of the dialectic
Editors Note: As part of our ongoing effort to spur new discussion on the relation of philosophy and organization, we republish excerpts of a speech given by Dunayevskaya on Jan. 1, 1983 to the National Editorial Board of NEWS & LETTERS. The introduction and first part of the presentation appear here. Unless otherwise indicated, footnotes are by the author. The original can be found in THE RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA COLLECTION, 7639.
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by Raya Dunayevskaya, founder of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S.
Marxism and 'the party'
Marxism and 'the party'
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Editor's Note:
As part of our commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Marx's COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, we publish Raya Dunayevskaya's 1980 critique of John Molyneux's MARXISM AND THE PARTY, a 1978 work by a British Trotskyist which largely focused on the MANIFESTO. Written as a letter to an Iranian Marxist-Humanist on Sept. 4, 1980, the critique has been slightly edited and shortened; we have also supplied headlines, footnotes, and the material in brackets. The original is in the SUPPLEMENT TO THE RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA COLLECTION, microfilm no. 15235.
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By Raya Dunayevskaya/Founder of Marxist-Humanism
The ‘Philosophy’ of the Yenan period: Mao Perverts Lenin
Marxism & Freedom
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Written: 1957
Source: Chapter 6 of From Marxism & Freedom, from 1776 until today. 4 pages of 380.
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1958.
HTML Markup: Andy Blunden
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The 'Philosophy' of the Yenan period: Mao Perverts Lenin
'We are opposed to the die-hards in the
revolutionary ranks ... We are opposed
to the idle talk of the left.'
Mao Tse Tung.
50 years after the revolution-Mao, Hegel, and dialectics in China
50 years after the revolution-Mao, Hegel, and dialectics in China
Editor's Note: The 50th anniversary of the foundations of the People's Republic of China is the occasion of our publishing the following 1957 letter to a comrade by Raya Dunayevskaya on the significance of Mao Zedong and his Feb. 27, 1957 speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Written from the vantage point of the dialectical categories of Hegel's PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND, this early philosophic critique of Mao would later be developed by Dunayevskaya in her works, MARXISM AND FREEDOM and PHILOSOPHY AND REVOL,UTION. (See below for these and other writings on Mao and China by Dunayevskaya.) The original letter can be found in THE RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA COLLECTION, 12179-12181. The footnotes have been supplied by the editor.
Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives
January-February 1999
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Rough Notes on Hegel's SCIENCE OF LOGIC
Part I Preface and Introduction
Editor's Note: As part of our effort to stimulate new study and discussion of dialectical philosophy, News and Letters Committees is breaking new ground in the radical movement by publishing the following detailed commentary on Hegel's SCIENCE OF LOGIC in the next four issues of our newspaper.
Simultaneous valuation vs. the exploitation theory of profit
Simultaneous valuation vs. the exploitation theory of profit
Author: Kliman, Andrew J Source: Capital & Class 97-112 no. 73 (Spring 2001): p. 97-112 ISSN: 0309-8168 Number: 70073393 Copyright: Copyright Conference of Socialist Economists Spring 2001
