Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Sept. 26, 1984. On additions to Introduction and Overview on Life and organization, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya on entire minutes. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Sept. 27, 1984, on developing a full body of ideas; Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman, written Sept. 17, 1985; Dunayevskaya letter to Michelle Landau, written Sept. 26, 1984; bibliographic table of contents for the new book, compiled by Landau, December 1984, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
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5. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Aug. 21, 1984.
On the title, form, and introduction to the new book, especially a discussion on Lenins interest in Life in Hegels Science of Logic and on private enclaves existing apart from Absolute Method. Contains marginalia by Dunayevskaya. Included also is Tentative table of contents for new book with marginalia by Dunayevskaya; Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written on Aug. 23, 1984, on new features of the new book as Absolute Method; marginalia by Dunayevskaya on Eugene Walker letter and notes to Dunayevskaya, both written Aug. 23, 1984, on the draft introduction; Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman, written Aug. 31, 1984, on the book as an encounter with myself. For discussion on the chapter on Latin America, see 16262-4.
4. Dunayevskaya remarks at the meeting of the Resident Editorial Board meeting of News and Letters Committees, made May 15, 1984, on the kind of male chauvinism equally applicable to men and women involved in the relationship to woman as founder .
These remarks were developed in correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Terry Moon, included here in two letters from Dunayevskaya and one from Moon, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya, in May and June 1984.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Mary Simpson, written May 2, 1984, and notes, written May 19, 1984.
On womens liberation and literature.
2. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Revolutionary Sisters, written May 1, 1984.
Announces that a collection of some of the extensive writings on Womens Liberation by Raya Dunayevskaya will be published before the end of 1985. Included also are Olga Domanski essay on Dunayevskayas writings on womens liberation in Pre-Convention Bulletin No. Two, July 1983; Domanski letters to South End Press, written Sept. 29, 1983, and to Simon Silverman, written Feb. 20, 1984, proposing the book; April Silverman letter to Dunayevskaya and Domanski, written April 26, 1984, agreeing to publish book; Domanski letter to Judy Camlin, written May 7, 1984, on the content and form of the book.
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Suzanne Casey and Diane Lee, written Nov. 8, 1983.
On how to overcome viewing womens liberation in a separate compartment from philosophy of revolution.
A. Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution
Section III. 1985From the projection of Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution to The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection: Retrospective and Perspective
10. Excerptas de Perspectivas Marxista-Humanistas.
Excerpts in Spanish of Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1984-85.
9. Dunayevskaya letter to John Marcotte, written Nov. 2, 1984.
On reactionary times when nothing is more urgently imperative than not by practice alone.
8. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Aug. 1, 1984.
On Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1984-85 (with form reorganized)… Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Aug. 2, 1984; outlines of Perspectives report as presented and as reorganized. For Perspectives thesis as revised, see 8193.
7. The Self-Thinking Idea and the Dialectics of a Body of Revolutionary Ideas: What is New in the Concept of Leadership?
Dunayevskaya presentation to the Executive Session of the News and Letters Committees convention, given July 8, 1984. Included also are outlines with marginalia both dictated and written by Dunayevskaya, and revised outline as published in convention summary.
6. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written June 4, 1984.
On The Self-Thinking Idea and the Dialectics of a body of revolutionary ideas: What is New in the Concept of Leadership?
5. Dunayevskaya remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, made May 29, 1984.
On the objective situation for Black America and on differences between C.L.R. James and Dunayevskaya. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Lou Turner, written June 2, 1984, on the Black world objectively and the Black dimension subjectively. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written May 30, 1984.
4. Dunayevskaya remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, made May 22, 1984
. On new stage reached in Marxist-Humanism in the decade of 1974-84, and on the division between philosophy and organization.
3. Dunayevskaya remarks to Resident Editorial Board, made May 8, 1984
. On Theory/Practice as the unique characteristic of the whole News & Letters. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to John Marcotte, written May 13, 1984, and Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, written June 13, 1984, on projecting whats new in the Hegelian sense in News & Letters.
2. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written April 18, 1984.
On rough draft of the Perspectives Thesis, including meeting the challenge philosophically and practically in each year of the 1980s. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin A. Barry, written April 18, 1984. For the thesis draft published as Where are the 1980s Going? see 8174.
1. Call for Convention to Work Out Perspectives for 1984-85,
written by Dunayevskaya, April 6, 1984.
C. Not By Practice Alone: The Movement from Theory
8. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Sept. 10, 1984.
On Universals of philosophy as they relate to organization. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Sept. 11, 1984.
7. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written July 14, 1984.
On the philosophic ground and historic roots of reorganization of News and Letters Committees and News & Letters newspaper.
6. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written May 23, 1984.
On how Marxist-Humanists respond to ongoing labor battles and points of crises in the Middle East.
5. Dunayevskaya letter to the Philosophic-Technical Committee of News Letters, written April 2, 1984.
On Chicago as new home to plan each issue never for moment forgetting the universality of what we are.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 13, 1984
. On projecting Marxist-Humanism as a walking body of ideas.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, written Jan. 20, 1984.
On concrete totality as it relates to News & Letters. Included also is Walker letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 1, 1984. Both contain marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
2. Dunayevskaya letters to comrades on reorganization of News and Letters Committees.
Includes eight letters written between Dec. 18, 1983 and Oct. 30, 1984, on the development of Marxist-Humanism in Chicago, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and on responsibility for Marxist-Humanism. Included also is Mary Holmes reply to one letter.
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Dec. 5, 1983
. On Chicago in the development of Marxist-Humanism and on each one of us as revolutionary and philosopher.
B. Location/Locale: The Center of News and Letters Committees moves to Chicago
9. Dunayevskaya remarks in classes on The Marxist-Humanist Body of Ideas made Feb. 9 through April 1, 1984.
Transcriptions from audio tapes. The second class transcript was partially checked by Dunayevskaya and contains her marginalia; the others were not.
8. Dialectics, Dialectics, Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin, and Marxist-Humanism,
Dunayevskaya presentation and remarks in the first class, given Feb. 2, 1984. Included here are two different tape transcriptions. One was partially checked by Dunayevskaya and contains her marginalia; the other was not. Included also are Dunayevskaya lecture notes.
7. Dunayevskaya presentation and reports by Lou Turner and Diane Lee to the Resident Editorial Board, given April 4, 1984.
On the classes as ground for the move to Chicago and going back to Chapter I of P&R on Absolute Idea as New Beginning.
6. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 21, 1984.
On projecting an all-rounded view of the classes and the 1949/50 pamphlet. Included also is Peter Wermuth letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 14, 1984, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
5. Dunayevskaya presentation and remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, given Feb. 6, 1984.
On what a body of ideas, as unity of mental/manual, means. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Feb. 7, 1984; revised Table of Contents for Lecture 1; Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues in New York, written March 7, 1984.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Jan. 30, 1984.
On addition to Chapter 12 of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution which relates Marxs Grundrisse to his last decade.
3. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Jan. 17, 1984.
On Marxist-Humanism as a body of ideas extending back to the 1920s. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Jan. 18, 1984, and Table of Contents for Lecture I given by Dunayevskaya; Dunayevskaya letter to Jim Mills, written Jan. 11, 1984; Mills letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 4, 1984, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
2. Dunayevskaya presentation to an expanded meeting of the Resident Editorial Board, given Jan. 1, 1984.
On Summation as New Perspectives, be it News & Letters, Centers move to Chicago, or totally new type of classes, all in context of a Body of Ideas… Included also is syllabus for Classes in Marxist-Humanist Body of Ideas, written by Dunayevskaya.
1. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given Dec. 15, 1983.
On embryo and process in proposed classes and 1984 as a new revolutionary stage organizationally. Included also is RDs Draft Outline of Classes-to-be.
A. Classes on the Marxist-Humanist Body of Ideas, Spring 1984
Section II. 1984 Not By Practice Alone: The Movement from Theory
e. Marginalia on articles studied by Dunayevskaya.
d. Notes by Dunayevskaya.
On Maurice Bishop, fragment; the relationship of philosophy to revolution in Grenada, handwritten fragment; the appendix to new edition of Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James, handwritten fragment; presenting the Black dimension in Marxist-Humanism; Race First by Tony Martin.
c. Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Black, written April 9, 1984.
On the state of C.L.R. Jamesism and Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson. Included also is Black letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 4, 1984, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
b. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Nov. 16, 1983.
Outline of Dunayevskayas lead-editorial article for News & Letters titled Reagans Imperial Invasion and Conquest of Grenada: The Three-Way Drive to War: Grenada, Endless Militarization, Retrogression on Black Rights. For Dunayevskayas article, her Political-Philosophic Letter, and an eye-witness account from Grenada, published as Grenada: Revolution. Counter-Revolution and Imperialist Invasion, see 8036. Included also is a P.S. added to Political-Philosophic Letter, written Jan. 7, 1984.
a. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Nov. 2, 1983.
On Reagans invasion of Grenada and the relationship of the Caribbean to philosophy. Included also is Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Nov. 1, 1983.
3. Grenada: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and U.S. Imperialist Invasion
g. Charles Denby remembered in Michigan newspapers, at the funeral, and at the memorial meeting.
f. Dunayevskaya letter to John Marcotte, written Dec. 5, 1983.
On reorganization of labor columns in News & Letters after Denbys Workers Journal column.
e. Dunayevskaya letter to Dixon Colley, written Nov. 20, 1983.
On remembrance of Denby and Reagans invasion of Grenada. Included also is Dixon Colley letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 6, 1983.
d. Notes for Dunayevskayas remarks at the memorial meeting for Charles Denby, held Nov. 6, 1983.
On Denbys lifes purpose as freedom’s eternal call. Included are five drafts, the first written Oct. 29, 1983.
c. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Oct. 19, 1983.
On ramifications of the death of Denby for News & Letters. Included also are remarks by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board, made Oct. 18, 1983, and Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Park, written Oct. 25, 1983, typed copy of handwritten letter. Both are on her article, Charles Denby, Worker-Editor. For article, written Oct. 24, 1983 and published in News & Letters, November 1983, see 8033.
b. Raya at the funeral for Simon Owens (Charles Denby).
Remarks by Dunayevskaya, made Oct. 15, 1983.
a. Dunayevskaya letter To Marxist-Humanists, Nationally and Internationally, and Friends of Charles Denby, Editor of News & Letters, written Oct. 11, 1983.
Announces the death of Charles Denby on Oct. 10, 1983. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Oct. 12, 1983, on the impact of Denbys life, arrangements for a memorial, and reorganization of News & Letters; Harry McShane letter to Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 26, 1983, typed copy of handwritten note.
2. The death of Charles Denby, editor of News & Letters
i. Reviews of the Miners General Strike pamphlet.
See also 10200.
h. Notes and marginalia on articles and letters studied by Dunayevskaya for work on the Miners General Strike pamphlet.
Included are Chronology re 1949-50 compiled by Olga Domanski; Weaver (Dunayevskaya), A New Stage for Our Organization, June 30, 1951; Asher (M. Franki), History of a Southern Local, Early 1953; Volume XIII. Raya Dunayevskaya, C.L.R. James and Grace Lee (Boggs): Philosophic Correspondence, 1949-50, a section of the 1978 guide to the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection and partially reprinted as Appendix A of the Miners General Strike pamphlet.
g. Summations of two sessions of the News and Letters Committees convention, July 7-8, 1984.
On the Miners General Strike, worker-writers in News & Letters, and Marxist-Humanist Perspectives.
f. Dunayevskaya remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, made May 8, 1984.
On additions to the Miners General Strike pamphlet manuscript. Included also are Dunayevskaya letters to Dear Friends, written May 9, 1984; to Mike T., written June 20, 1984, typed copy; to Andy Phillips, written May 30, 1984; Raymond letter to Dunayevskaya, written April 28, 1984. For pamphlet, published as A 1980s View: The Coal Miners General Strike of 1949-50 and the Birth of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S., see 8123.
e. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 1, 1984.
On Part II, The Emergence of a New Movement from Practice that Is Itself a Form of Theory, of the Miners General Strike pamphlet. Included also is Dunayevskaya remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, made Oct. 18, 1983.
d. Dunayevskaya letter to Mike T., written Sept. 14 1983.
On a philosophic discussion of the Miners General Strike.
c. Dunayevskaya remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, made June 21, 1983.
On the relation between new stage of production and new stage of cognition. Included in minutes are presentation by Andy Phillips who participated in the strike and remarks by Olga Domanski.
b. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given May 16, 1983.
On differences with C.L.R. James over the meaning of the Miners General Strike. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to the Philosophical-Technical Committee of News & Letters, written May 11, 1983. For philosophic correspondence between Raya Dunayevskaya, C.L.R. James and Grace Lee, see 1595-1734 and 9209-9356.
a. Dunayevskaya letter to Raymond and Frank (M. Franki), written May 1, 1983.
On the history of the Miners General Strike and the self-determination of our thought as we responded. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Mike T., written May 10, 1983. Raymond, Frank, and Mike T. participated in the strike.
1. The Coal Miners General Strike of 1949-50 and the Birth of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S.
E. Returns to the birth of Marxist-Humanism and 30 years of the movements from practice that area form of theory
14. Dunayevskaya letter to Calvin Brown, written May 17, 1985.
On meeting Patrice Lumumba and love of the new Black Dimension as a youth. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Brown, written June 5, 1985, typed copy of handwritten letter.
13. Dunayevskaya letter to Robert Hill, written May 11, 1985.
On the Black Dimension that first attracted me to American Marxists and the Marcus Garvey Papers. Included also is Robert Hill letter to Dunayevskaya, written April 21, 1985.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin Anderson, written May 7, 1984.
On Skotaville Publishing company in South Africa. Included also is Olga Domanski letter to John Alan, written May 8, 1984.
11. Dunayevskaya remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, made July 19, 1983.
On dialogues with Black intellectuals, on revolutionary journalism and the Black dimension, and on finances.
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Harold Cruse, written Nov. 4, 1983.
On France and Negritude, typed copy.
9. Dunayevskaya presentation and remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, given June 28, 1983.
On draft of new introduction to American Civilization on Trial and on News & Letters newspaper. For pamphlet as published, see 8020.
8. Charles Denby letter to Dunayevskaya, published in Denbys Workers Journal column, News & Letters, June 1983.
On the new edition of American Civilization on Trial. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Denby, written May 23, 1983, typed copy of handwritten letter.
7. Dunayevskaya letter to Cedric Robinson, written May 10, 1983.
On Dunayevskayas break with and critique of C.L.R. James. Included also are transcript of videotape of Cedric Robinson interview with Dunayevskaya, The Revolutionary Consciousness of Minorities and Women, made about April 25, 1983 at the University of California at Santa Barbara; Notes by RD, 1/17/84 regarding transcript of CR interview; marginalia by Dunayevskaya made in Spring 1983, on Mary Lewis review of Cedric Robinson, The Terms of Order.
6. Notes for lecture On the Marx Centenary: Marxs Relevance to Womens Liberation and The Black Dimension, given April 28, 1983,
at the University of California at San Diego.
5. Notes for lecture on Marx and The Black World, given March 30, 1983 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor during the Marx Centenary tour
. Included also is press release for lecture, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. For paragraph developed from the lecture and added by Dunayevskaya to Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution, see 15367.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Coleman Chauncey, written Feb. 7, 1983.
Included also is Chauncey letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 2, 1983, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Lou Turner, Mike Connolly, and Eugene Walker, written Feb. 3, 1983.
On Marxist-Humanist participation in the Fifth Annual Afro-American Writers Conference at Howard University. Included also is Lou Turner letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 16, 1983, on the conference, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
2. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Jan. 25, 1983.
On Black Studies and womens liberationists becoming a centerpoint of the tour.
1. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Robert Hill.
Exchange of three notes from Hill, one from Dunayevskaya between Jan. 15 and July 28, 1983 which discusses Dunayevskayas U.C.L.A. lecture, the Marcus Garvey Papers, and Cedric Robinsons interview with Dunayevskaya (see 15934).
D. Marx and The Black World and a new edition of American Civilization on Trial
3. Marginalia by Dunayevskaya on Korsch bibliography by Patrick Goode, and on writings by Paul Mattick and Paul Piccone.
Date of marginalia on Mattick article is unknown; for Dunayevskaya notes on Mattick article, see 14637.
2. Notes by Dunayevskaya on Douglas Kellner ed., Karl Korsch: Revolutionary Theory (1977), and Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy (1970).
1. Dunayevskaya drafts of letter to Michael Connolly, written February 1983.
Extends the category of Post-Marx Marxism as a pejorative to Western Marxists including Karl Korsch. For final draft of letter, written Feb. 20, 1983, see 15357.
C. Critique of Karl Korsch
1. The Science of Anthropology: An Essay on The Very Old Marx by Donald R. Kelley, Journal of the History of Ideas, April-June 1984.
Citation of Dunayevskayas work on Marxs Ethnological Notebooks, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
k. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Norman Levine.
Exchange includes four letters from Dunayevskaya and four letters from Levine, written between July 6, 1983 and Oct. 25, 1984, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya on two Levine letters. Dunayevskayas letters include a critical survey of several thinkers on the differences between Marx and Engels. Included also is citation of Philosophy and Revolution in Levine, Dialogue within the Dialectic.
j. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and David Lamb.
Exchange includes one letter from Dunayevskaya, written May 2, 1984, on her talks on Hegelian Marxism in 1959 and 1974, and one letter from Lamb, written April 17, 1984.
i. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Richard Bernstein.
Exchange includes two letters from Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 12, 1983, on publishing her paper in Praxis International, and Nov. 9, 1983, which is a typed copy; and two letters from Bernstein, written Oct. 4, 1983, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya, and Feb. 29, 1984. For essay as published, see 8066.
h. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Marvin Gettleman.
Two letters each from Dunayevskaya and from Gettleman, written between Oct. 3, 1983 and Jan 9, 1984. On submitting an article for Science and Society.
g. Dunayevskaya letter to Mary Holmes, written Oct. 1, 1983.
On publishing the New School conference paper in Mexico. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Alicia Hammer, written Sept. 27, 1983, on the Mexican edition of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation. and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution.
f. Dunayevskaya card to Cynthia Williams, written Oct. 3, 1983
. On visiting the Kinomaagew-gamig Cultural Center at Walpole Island, Ontario. Typed copy of handwritten note. Included also is Cynthia Williams letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 23, 1983.
e. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Sept. 28, 1983
. Reports on Dunayevskayas participation in the New School conference. Included also is presentation by Dunayevskaya and remarks by Michael Connolly to the Resident Editorial Board, given Sept. 27, 1983.
d. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and David McLellan.
Two letters from Dunayevskaya, written July 28 and Aug. 18, 1983, thanking McLellan for promising to review Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation. and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution, and one letter from McLellan, written Aug. 12, 1983. July 28 letter is a typed summary.
c. Dunayevskaya letter to Maxime Rodinson, written July 27, 1983.
On Rodinsons book Islam and Capitalism as it relates to Marxs Ethnological Notebooks.
b. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Teodor Shanin.
Two letters from Dunayevskaya, written May 25 and July 8, 1985, on Shanins style of writing on Marxs last decade versus her own, with marginalia not by Dunayevskaya on July 8 letter; one letter from Shanin, written June 21, 1985, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. Included also is Dunayevskayas letter to Michael Connolly, written June 10, 1984, on Connollys review of Shanins Late Marx and The Russian Road.
a. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Mikhail Vitkin.
Four letters from Vitkin, written Jan. 15, June 21, July 12, and December 1983, in Russian with marginalia by Dunayevskaya on all but June 21 letter. Included also are Jan. 15 and June 21 letters translated by Stephen Steiger. Dunayevskaya letters to Vitkin are missing.
2. Correspondence and presentations related to Marx and anthropology
i. The Philosophers Index Retrospective Bibliography, 1984. Abstract for Marxs New Humanism and The Dialectics Of Womens Liberation in Primitive and Modern Societies and cover letter by Dunayevskaya, both written March 28, 1984, with marginalia not by Dunayevskaya.
Included also are entry on Raya Dunayevskaya as published; drafts of abstract by Olga Domanski; Dunayevskaya revision of Domanski draft with a note to Domanski. For other entries on Raya Dunayevskaya, see 10216 and 15556.
h. Marginalia by Dunayevskaya on Agenda and list of abstracts and paper for the New School conference.
g. Dunayevskaya letter to Stanley Diamond, written Aug. 24, 1983.
On Biafra and on Dunayevskayas participation in the conference. Included also is Diamond letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 1, 1983.
f. Marxs New Humanism and The Dialectics of Womens Liberation in Primitive and Modern Societies.
Manuscript of paper submitted to Stanley Diamond for the New School conference. Included also is Dunayevskaya cover letter to Diamond, written July 20, 1983.
e. Michael Connolly letter to Dunayevskaya, written July 5, 1983.
On Marxs writings on women in the 1850s, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. Included also are Dunayevskaya note to Michael Connolly requesting a translation of Marx on women and Greek mythology, and Connollys translation.
d. Notes on Lawrence Kraders Introduction to the Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx.
No date. Included also are marginalia on fragment of Michael Connolly letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 24, 1983, on research requested by Dunayevskaya for New School conference paper; Connolly research on Marxs writings on Iroquois/Pagagenos, mythology, and Asiatic Mode of Production; Connolly draft and review of Pat Alberss The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Women.
c. Raya on notes for Diamond conference.
Notes written June 5, 1983. Fragments of the first draft of conference paper. Included also are marginalia on file folder.
b. Notes and marginalia by Dunayevskaya on research for New School conference.
Included are Very rough notes from Rayas comments on Marx and non-capitalist societies at Detroit local. Jan. 13, 1983 (by Mike), transcribed by Michael Connolly, not checked by Dunayevskaya; Connolly letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 10, 1983, outlining an article on Dunayevskayas studies on Marxs Ethnological Notebooks in light of writings by modern theorists in anthropology and womens liberation; Connollys draft of article; Dunayevskayas notes on letter and draft; Connolly notes on Stanley Diamonds critique of Levi-Strauss, fragment; Connolly letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 11, 1983; Mikes letter to me of 3/11/83 on anthropology…, Dunayevskayas notes on theorists on Marx and anthropology; Susan Van Gelder letter to Neda Azad, written May 24, 1983, on Claude Levi-Strauss; articles and article fragment by Stanley Diamond, also with marginalia not by Dunayevskaya.
a. Dunayevskaya letter to Stanley Diamond, written Feb. 9, 1983.
Presents thesis for a paper on Marxs philosophy as it relates to the dialectic of Womens Liberation during three periods of his writings for the New School for Social Research conference on Bureaucracy. Included also are preliminary outline for paper and Call for Papers.
1. Marxs New Humanism and the Dialectics of Womens Liberation in Primitive and Modern Societies
B. Further studies on Marxs Ethnological Notebooks
b. Articles and citations on Dunayevskayas life and writings.
a. Reports and itineraries by colleagues, correspondence, articles, flyers, press releases, and publicity related to Dunayevskayas lectures in West Virginia; Michigan and Canada; New York and Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin; Salt Lake City; Seattle; California.
Some contain marginalia by Dunayevskaya and marginalia not by her.
4. Reports, publicity, and citations about Dunayevskaya
n. The Philosophers Index Retrospective Bibliography, 1983.
Abstract for Rosa Luxemburg Womens Liberation. and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution and cover letter by Dunayevskaya, both written Oct. 5, 1983. Included also are entries on Raya Dunayevskaya for this book and for the 1982 edition of Philosophy and Revolution. For other entries on Raya Dunayevskaya, see 10216 and 15790.
m. Dunayevskaya letter to Keiko and Morgan Gibson, written December 1983.
Included also are Marxist-Humanism Today by Morgan Gibson and cover note, written Jan. 19, 1984.
l. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board meeting, given Sept. 16, 1983.
On ramifications of the constitutional convention and on adding a paragraph to Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution; on Marxs concept of the Asiatic mode of production.
k. Dunayevskaya remarks at the Constitutional Convention of News and Letters Committees, made Sept. 3-4, 1983.
On concretizing something so new that the first task is to grasp that newness.
j. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin Anderson, written July 11, 1983.
On Andersons review of Rosa Luxemburg. Womens Liberation. and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution for Africa Today. Typed copy of handwritten note. For review, see 10180. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman, written July 11, 1983.
i. Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Black, written July 8, 1983.
On Harry McShane and on new paths to revolution and forms of organization.
h. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written July 5, 1983.
On amending the News and Letters Committees Constitution. See also 17155.
g. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given June 14, 1983.
First draft of Marxist-Humanist Perspectives entitled Global Year of the Missile, Capitalist-Imperialist Retrogression on all Fronts from Labor and Black to Womens Liberation, Youth and Education, as well as Do-Nothingness on Outright Famine and Massive Death in Third World, Especially Africa. For Perspectives thesis draft as published in News & Letters, see 7915.
f. Call for Constitutional Convention.
Written by Dunayevskaya, June 1, 1983.
e. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written May 30, 1983.
Incorporates Mary Holmes letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 22,1983, on a Mexican edition of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution. Included also is Introduction and table of contents, translated into Spanish by Cesar McKay, unpublished. For selections from Rosa Luxemburgo, la liberación femenina y la filosofía marxista de la revolución, see 10244; see also 11173.
d. Dunayevskaya letter to Ted Rosmer, written May 25, 1983.
On the economics and dialectics in world history. Included also is Rosmer letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 6-10, 1983.
c. Dunayevskaya letter to Suzanne Casey, written May 23, 1983.
On a return to Marxs Marxism in a paper on Margaret Fuller, with marginalia not by her.
b. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written May 17, 1983.
On global dimensions of philosophy as action in the Marx Centenary Year.
a. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written May 5, 1983.
Summation of tour and proposals to issue a pamphlet on Marxist-Humanisms roots in the 1949-1950 Coal Miners General Strike, to establish Chicago as Midwest subcenter of News and Letters Committees, and to issue a new edition of American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard. Included also is Dunayevskaya presentation to Resident Editorial Board, given May 4, 1983.
3. Summing up the Marx Centenary lecture tour
i. Dunayevskaya letter to Lee Baron, written June 21, 1983.
On Dunayevskayas WBAI radio interview and on experiences during the lecture tour. Included also is Baron letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 16, 1983.
h. Presentations at the Common Differences: Third World Women and Feminist Perspectives conference at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, given April 10, 1983.
Included are notes for panel presentation on Women in Revolutionary Movements; manuscript of lecture on The Trail from Marxs Philosophy of Revolution to Todays Womens Liberation Movements, later included in Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution; Dunayevskaya letter to Ann Russo and Chantra Mohanty, written May 23, 1983; Dunayevskayas comments in conference evaluation.
g. Notes for lecture on The Dialectics of Revolution: Confrontations with Marxfrom Engels through Rosa Luxemburg to Our AgeReveal Pathways to Freedom for Today, given April 9, 1983,
at the Chicago News and Letters Committee meeting.
f. The Todayness of Marxs Humanism on the Centenary of His Death, A Brief Abstract.
Summary of Dunayevskayas keynote address to Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (CIRA) conference on Revolution, Counterrevolution and the Islamic Republic, given April 2, 1983, at American University in Washington, D.C. Included also are notes on Ivar Spector, The First Russian Revolution: Its Impact on Asia.
e. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 28, 1983.
On her East Coast lecture tour.
d. Notes for lecture on Facing The Challenge of Marxs Philosophy of Revolution to All Post-Marx Marxists, given March 20, 1983,
at the New York News and Letters Committee meeting.
c. Notes for lecture on New Moments in Marxs Humanism and Dialectic: Rosa Luxemburg and Womens Liberation; Frantz Fanon and The Third-World Revolutions given March 16, 1983,
at Hunter College (New York).
b. Dunayevskaya letter to Ginger Hegg, written March 10, 1983,
on the forthcoming lecture at the University of Iowa at Iowa City and speaking in Iowa in the 1950s.
a. Notes for lecture on Civil Rights and The Philosophy of Freedom, given March 2, 1983,
at the West Virginia University in Morgantown.
2. Lectures, correspondence, and notes from the tour
m. Kevin Anderson letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 19, 1983.
On discussions in France during Marx Centenary, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya and marginalia not by her.
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin Anderson, written March 7, 1983
. On Rosanna Giammanco translation of Raya Dunayevskaya, the nature of Soviet economy in The USSR and the Theory of State Capitalism by Riccardo Tacchinardi and Arturo Peregalli. Included is translation with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
k. Dunayevskaya letter to Narihiko Ito, written March 1, 1983.
On Japanese connection in Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation. and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution. Included also is Ito letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 21, 1983, inviting her to the Rosa Luxemburg Symposium in Paris.
j. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 14, 1983.
Educational on Marxs theory of permanent revolution as ground for organization.
i. Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Wolff, written Feb. 10, 1983.
On Clara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg.
h. Dunayevskaya letter to Felix Martin, written Jan. 24, 1983.
On the Los Angeles News and Letters Committee and the Marx Centenary lecture tour.
g. Dunayevskaya letter to Bertell Ollman, written Jan. 19, 1983.
On Ollmans upcoming WBAI radio interview with Dunayevskaya. Copy here includes Dunayevskaya typed and handwritten notes to Kevin Anderson and to Michael Connolly. Included also is Ollman letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 10, 1983.
f. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Jan. 11, 1983.
On the organizational and journalistic impact of the Marx Centenary Year. Included also are Eugene Walker presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Jan. 10, 1983, with remarks by Dunayevskaya; presentation by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board meeting, given Jan. 23, 1983.
e. Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman, written Jan. 8, 1983.
On Dunayevskayas 1938 essay on Trotsky submitted to an encyclopedia in Palestine. Essay is missing.
d. Dunayevskaya letters to Andrew Murdoch, written Jan. 5 and Jan. 17, 1983
. On the totality of Marxs philosophy as the ground for Marxist-Humanism globally and projecting Marxist-Humanism in Britain.
c. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written Jan. 5, 1983.
On why we challenge post-Marx Marxism.
b. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Jan. 4, 1983.
On the January 1983 News & Letters, Trilogy of Revolution as a title for Dunayevskayas three books, and the upcoming constitutional convention of News and Letters Committees. Included also is new Who We Are and What We Stand For statement in the January-February 1983 News & Letters.
a .Marxist-Humanism, 1983: The Summation That Is A New Beginning, Subjectively and Objectively.
Dunayevskaya presentation to an expanded meeting of the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given Jan. 1, 1983, as well as minutes of meeting and Dunayevskayas summation. Included are pages with marginalia by Dunayevskaya; date of marginalia is unknown. For complete presentation and summation, see 7639.
1. The meaning of the Marx Centenary Year
A. The Marx Centenary Year lecture tour and the Trilogy of Revolution
Section I. 1983The year of projecting a new category, post-Marx Marxism as a pejorative
Volume 14 concludes on page #15377.
30. Carrying Out Constitutional Convention Decisions.
Presentation by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given Sept. 16, 1983. Dunayevskaya proposes to add a passage to Chapter 12 of the book, on the differences between Marx and Engels on the Asiatic mode of production, and on the development of society as a whole. A further expansion of this passage, added about one week later, is also included. Marginalia on that document are by Dunayevskaya.
29. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Comrades, written Aug. 26, 1983.
On the eve of the News and Letters Committees Constitutional Convention, which was to take up Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution, Dunayevskaya restates and discusses all the passages added to the book since it was set in type and could no longer be changed. These include a new paragraph added to the Introduction on post-Marx Marxists, beginning with Frederick Engels.
28. New paragraph added to the last chapter of the book. Written by Dunayevskaya for inclusion in her speech on Marx and the Black World, given at the Center for African and Afro-American Studies, University of Michigan, March 30, 1983.
During this period, Dunayevskaya embarked on a two-month long national Marx Centenary Tour with the new book. For a discussion of that tour, see #7667- 7670. Included here also are Notes on the Black Dimension and RLWLKM written during the tour.
27. Dunayevskaya letter to Michael Connolly, written Feb. 20, 1983.
A further discussion of her category of post-Marx Marxists, this letter focuses on Dunayevskayas critique of Karl Korsch.
26. Dunayevskaya letter addressed only as Hello, written Jan. 13, 1983.
Proposes a new passage added to Chapter 3 of the book, in the discussion of Luxemburgs Accumulation of Capital, on the Great Divide between Phenomenology and Philosophy.
25. Dunayevskaya letter to Ali Mazrui, written Dec. 12, 1982.
On the internationalism of the Black Dimension; on that dimension within her new book.
24. Dunayevskaya letter to Sheila Rowbotham, written Nov. 4, 1982.
Dunayevskaya sends Rowbotham a copy of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution on the day of its publication. Asks for the initiation of a battle of ideas on her book in England.
23. New paragraphs added to the last page of Chapter 12 of the book.
Written by Dunayevskaya as the conclusion of her Perspectives Report to the 1982 Convention of News and Letters Committees; presented Sept. 4, 1982. On the further challenge to the form of organization which we have worked out as the committee-form rather than the party-to-lead. A shorter version of this new addition to the book was offered in Dunayevskayas Political-Philosophic Letter of Oct. 15, 1982, On the Battle of Ideas (#7486).
22. Dunayevskaya letter to Women’s Liberation-News and Letters Committees, written Aug. 20, 1982.
Even though the book is now set in type and cannot be altered, Dunayevskaya begins proposing additions to it. Two additions are offered here to the final page of Chapter 8, on The Task That Remains to be Done: The Unique and Unfinished Contributions of Todays Women’s Liberation Movement. Marginalia on the letter were added later by Dunayevskaya.
21. Convention Call for 1982 Convention of News and Letters Committees, written June 1, 1982.
Principal author was Dunayevskaya. Includes a discussion of the Difference between the 1980 Draft and the 1982 completed work.
20. Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman and John Spiers, written May 27, 1982.
Sends suggested material for the jacket cover of the book. Dunayevskaya was asked to summarize the book in three paragraphs, and did so, writing one on each of the three parts.
19. Dunayevskaya letter to Peter Wermuth, written April 27, 1982 (excerpts).
On how to present her three books as a totality.
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written April 20, 1982.
Expanded discussion of a footnote in the Afterword to Chapter 11, on Leon Trotsky and the organization question.
17. For the Record. Statement by Dunayevskaya, written April 18, 1982, on Olga Domanskis presentation of the galley proofs of the book, as she re-created them in book-form.
A discussion of the relation of footnote references to the body of the text.
16. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin A. Barry, written April 4, 1982.
On Georg Lukacs work and its divergence from Lenins Philosophic Notebooks and from Marxs Humanist Essays.
15. Politicalization and Proofreading. Report by Olga Domanski to Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given Feb. 8, 1982.
On the theft of the galley proofs and final mss. of the book; on changes in the mss. added by Dunayevskaya during proofreading of the galleys.
14. Under the Whip of the Counter-Revolution: Momentous World-Historic Events Struggle to Find Revolutionary Philosophic Expression.
Presentation by Dunayevskaya to the Expanded Resident Editorial Board meeting, Jan. 2, 1982.
13. Leadership and Responsibilities for Jan. 2, 1982 Expanded REB Perspectives.
Notes by Dunayevskaya for her presentation to an Expanded Resident Editorial Board meeting of News and Letters Committees, probably written in the last week of December, 1981. On Post-Marx Marxism as a category.
12. Presentation by Dunayevskaya on the book, given Dec. 14, 1981 to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees.
Dunayevskaya focuses only on what is new, rather than an overview of the whole book.
11. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Nov. 25, 1981.
Reports another addition to the book, expanding a footnote in Chapter 3 into a discussion of a disagreement with Roman Rosdolsky and the writing of her 1953 Letters on Hegels Absolutes. During the same week, Dunayevskaya wrote another discussion of Hegels Absolutes, On the 150th anniversary since Hegels death (#7481).
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin A. Barry, written Nov. 15, 1981.
On the quotation from Herman Melville to be added to the beginning of Chapter 7.
9. Presentation by Dunayevskaya on new additions to the book, given Nov. 4, 1981 to Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees.
On Dunayevskayas addition of a new, fourth section to Chapter 12, entitled A 1980s View, and other additions made after preliminary work on the Index to the book.
8. Dunayevskaya letter to Ana Maria Portugal (Lima, Peru), written Oct. 12, 1981.
Asks for discussion of the relationship between womens liberation and Rosa Luxemburg, and for assistance with finding a Latin American publisher for the book.
7. Dunayevskaya letter to Jose Porfirio Miranda (Mexico), written Oct. 9, 1981.
Sends the Introduction and Table of Contents to the book.
6. Kevin A. Barry letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 20, 1981.
Responds to Dunayevskayas request for information on Rubels editing of Vols. II and III of Marxs Capital. Included here are Dunayevskayas replies to Barry, written Sept. 28 and Oct. 8, 1981, which further discuss Rubels work, and that of Terell Carver. Barrys note of Oct. 15, 1981 contains marginalia by Dunayevskaya on the dialectics of fetishism. Part of this note is missing.
5. Summation of Raya Dunayevskaya Following Discussion of Perspectives.
Presentation given at the News and Letters Committees Plenum, Sept. 5, 1981. Dunayevskaya projects two new categories from her work on Chapter 12 of the book: Post-Marx Marxism as a pejorative, and Organizational responsibility for Marxist-Humanism.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman, Humanities Press, written Aug. 10, 1981.
Dunayevskaya signs contract for publication of the book and informs him of her decision to create a new Chapter 12.
3. A Note on the Dialectic in Organizational Relations, or Leadership as Both Philosophy and Spontaneous Action.
Presentation given by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, July 31, 1981 (excerpts). Dunayevskaya announces her decision to create a new Chapter 12 of the book, even though the mss. had already been submitted to the publisher. Also included here is a copy of the minutes of the talk with handnotes added later by Dunayevskaya.
2. Dunayevskaya letter to Lawrence Stepelevich, written July 5, 1981.
Sends Stepelevich, as editor of Owl of Minerva, the journal of the Hegel Society of America, the contents page of her book, stressing her study of Marxs 1841 doctoral thesis, and asking his view. Dunayevskaya had just been offered a contract for publication of the book by Humanities Press.
1. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 11, 1981.
A response to Dunayevskayas Theory/Practice column, printed in News & Letters (June, 1981), entitled A 1981 View of Marxs 1841 Dialectic (#7476) .
G. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Rosa Luxemburg. Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution, June, 1981 – September, 1983
36. The Book as a Whole.
Presentation by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given March 16, 1981. A review of all the changes in the draft chapters of the book created under the impact of seeing the book as a whole. The book now has three parts, and 11 chapters.
35. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 20, 1981.
On Marxs changes in the French edition of Capital as printed in the Dona Torr edition.
34. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Sisters, written Jan. 22, 1981.
On her recent correspondence with Rowbotham and her view of Russian feminist Tatyana Mamonovas call for an International Feminist Union. Following this letter, Dunayevskaya decided to expand her draft chapter on Womens Liberation, then and Now, into a new Part II of the book, which would now have three parts. (See her letter of Jan. 30, 1981, #6465.)
33. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written Jan. 19, 1981.
Sends Part II of the book, on Marx; discusses the difference between Philosophy and Revolution (with emphasis on the word and) and this study of Marxs philosophy of revolution.
32. Sheila Rowbotham letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 12, 1981.
Responds to Dunayevskayas present of the News and Letters Committees pamphlet, 25 Years of Marxist-Humanism, and reports on her participation in a Beyond the Fragments conference in Britain. Included here are both her handwritten letter and a typed transcript.
31. Kevin A. Barry letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 8, 1981.
Proposes possible essay article topics for News & Letters. Included here also is Dunayevskayas response, written Jan. 16, 1981, with discussion of the French edition of Capital.
30. Relationship of Marxs Philosophy of Revolution to his Concept of Organization.
Report by Dunayevskaya to meeting of Expanded Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, Jan. 3, 1981. Dunayevskaya had just completed what she then called Part II of the book, including a final chapter on Philosopher of Permanent Revolution and Organization Man. For her discussion of this chapter, see her letter of Dec. 16, 1980 (#6463).
29. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin A. Barry, written Dec. 2, 1980.
Asks for translation and review of a paragraph from Marxs Capital, added to the French edition in 1872, but not included in Engels later editions. Also included here is Barrys response, after his study of Maximilian Rubels edition of Le Capital. Barrys letter, written Dec. 12, 1980, discusses the publishing history of the French edition since its first appearance.
28. Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Wolff, written Nov. 14, 1980.
Asks for translation of Luxemburgs article, Lassalle and the Revolution.
27. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, Eugene Walker, and Michael Connolly, written Oct. 18, 1980.
On Dunayevskayas sudden decision to create a whole Part II on Marx. Gives a first outline of the Part, in three chapters. A further discussion of this decision is included in her Nov. 3, 1980 letter to Dear Colleagues (#6461).
26. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, Michael Connolly, and Eugene Walker, written Oct. 7, 1980.
On Dunayevskayas new view of how to begin the Marx chapter with a section on attitudes to the dialectic–in Luxemburg, in Lenin.
25. Dunayevskaya letter to Sheila Rowbotham, written Sept. 27, 1980.
On Dunayevskayas reading of Rowbothams Beyond the Fragments. In the following week, Dunayevskaya completed a draft of what she then called Chapter 6 of the book, on Womens Liberation, Then and Now, and drafted Chapter 5, on War, Prison and Revolutions, 1914-1919. Dunayevskayas letter on this work, written Oct. 6, 1980, is already included in the Collection (#6459).
24. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Sept. 16, 1980.
A critique of intellectuals who try to contrast Vol. I of Marxs Capital to Vol. III.
23. Dunayevskaya letter to Jim Mills and Peter Wermuth, written Sept. 15, 1980.
Suggests that the Marxist-Humanist youth paper, From the Pen, print a quotation from Marx on the bureaucratization of education.
22. Dunayevskaya letter to Raha, written Sept. 4, 1980.
An extended critique of John Molyneuxs Marxism and the Party (1978), written after Iranian Left activists translated Molyneuxs book into Farsi. Handnotes on the letter are later annotations by Dunayevskaya, probably made in 1986.
21. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written June 17, 1980.
A discussion of the problem of organization in the Marxist movement, from Marx through Lenin to our day, with reference to Dunayevskayas 1953 Letters on Hegels Absolutes. This letter follows Dunayevskayas May 4, 1980 presentation on A Birthtime of History, a discussion of Marxs philosophy of revolution, and her projection of the first outline of the book as a whole. For her letter reporting on both events, see #6457.
20. Narihiko Ito (Kamakura, Japan) letter to Dunayevskaya, written April 23, 1980.
Comments on draft chapter of the book sent to him by Dunayevskaya. Also included here are Dunayevskayas responses, written May 5, 1980 and June 20, 1980.