Raya Dunayevskaya
Ukrainian-born emigre the USA and libertarian Marxist who co-founded the Johnson-Forest Tendency alongside CLR James.
Exerts from Philosophy and Revolution
Excerts from Raya Dunayevskaya's Philosophy & Revolution
1973
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.
Women and revolution in Iran
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives
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Women and revolution in Iran
Grave Contradictions of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives
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Grave contradictions of 1979 Iranian Revolution
Economic Reality and Dialectics of Liberation
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives
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Economic reality and dialectics of liberation
Editor's Note: The following is a May 1968 letter Raya Dunayevskaya wrote to Alan Wallach in response to his critique of an early draft chapter for her PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION, entitled "Economic Reality and the Dialectics of Liberation."
The despotic plan of capital vs. freely associated labor
The despotic plan of capital vs. freely associated labor
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives
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Editor's Note: Raya Dunayevskaya, in the period 1949-51, wrote much on the relationship of philosophy and economics, specifically on the relationship of Hegel's SCIENCE OF LOGIC and Marx's CAPITAL.
