Sends Chapter 2 of the book, entitled The Break with Kautsky, 1910-11. Included here is a typed transcript of Dunayevskayas handwritten note. Chapter 2 was published in News & Letters (April, 1980). Also included is Rowbothams response, written June 3, 1980.
Month: May 2015
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Sisters, written March 19, 1980.
On the death of Erich Fromm.
17. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written March 17, 1980.
Proposes a meeting on Marxs philosophy of revolution to be held on Marxs birthday, May 5. In this period Dunayevskaya wrote three other letters to her colleagues on the work on the book: on Marxs work on the Neue Rheinische Zeitung; on Luxemburg and womens liberation; on her study of Marxs and Luxemburgs Theories of Accumulation (#6450-6456).
16. Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Wolff, written Feb. 25, 1980.
A critique of the publishing history of Luxemburgs works since her death.
15. Dunayevskaya letter to Mikhail Vitkin, written Feb. 13, 1980.
On his article, The Problem of the Universality of Social Relations in Classical Marxism. Also included here is Vitkins letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 30, 1980. (In Russian.)
14. Remarks by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given Feb. 3, 1980.
On the meaning of the proposed expansion of News & Letters to a 12-page newspaper, and its relationship to the work on the book.
13. Revolution and Counter-Revolution: The Life and Death of Rosa Luxemburg.
Lecture given Jan. 22, 1980 at Wayne State University (Detroit). Included here is a press release on the meeting issued by Wayne State University News & Letters Youth Committee, and an excerpt from the lecture which concerns Lenins critique of Luxemburg on the National Question. Dunayevskaya had just completed what she then considered Chapter 3 of the book; News & Letters had just published Chapter 1 (Jan.-Feb., 1980).
12. Dave Wolff letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 7, 1979.
Sends his translations of quotations from articles by Luxemburg on German imperialisms 1904-07 war against the Herero people in what is now Namibia.
11. Dunayevskaya letter to Andy Phillips, written Nov. 5, 1979.
Asks for a discussion on the form of the party.
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Raha, written Nov. 3, 1979, on Rahas return to the U.S. from participation in the Iranian Revolution.
Responds to Rahas discussion of Marxs 1844 Essays, and the relationship of philosophy to organization in the Iranian Revolution. During this period, Dunayevskaya decides to change the title of her book-to-be to Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution and writes two new letters on her work on the book to her colleagues in News and Letters Committees (#6444-6447). On Nov. 27, 1979 she completes a new Political-Philosophic Letter entitled Grave Contradictions in the Iranian Revolution (#6013).
9. Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, written Nov. 1, 1979.
On the whole post-Marx movement and how they did not know Marx as any sort of new continent of thought.
8. Dunayevskaya letter to Michael Connolly, written Oct. 31, 1979.
On Dunayevskayas reading of Trotskys 1909 article, Our Differences, as Trotsky re-printed it in 1922.
7. Dunayevskaya letter to Robert Belknap, written Oct. 25, 1979.
Accepts invitation from Russian Institute at Columbia University to lecture on the 1905 Russian Revolution; proposes possible titles for the talk.
6. Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Wolff, written Oct. 15, 1979.
Asks Wolff to translate articles by Luxemburg on publications from Marxs archives by Mehring and by Kautsky.
5. Dunayevskaya letter to Alexander Ehrlich, written Oct. 9, 1979.
On her study of Luxemburg, and on the 1907 Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Wolff, written Oct. 8, 1979.
On Wolffs translation (from German) of Luxemburgs article entitled Theory and Practice. (For the full article as translated and published by News & Letters, see #6475.) Dunayevskaya wrote three letters to colleagues in News and Letters Committees on her work on the book in the month of Oct. 1979. (See #6440-6443).
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Urszula Wislanka, written Oct. 8, 1979.
On Wislankas translation (from Polish) of Luxemburgs speech to the Fifth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.
2. Olga Domanski letter to Michael Connolly, written Sept. 30, 1979.
Describes the first week of Dunayevskayas work on the book at a remote location in Canada; presents sequence of the work on a Political-Philosophic Letter on Leon Trotsky and on what became Chapter 1 of the book: Before and After the 1905 Revolution: Two Turning Points in Rosa Luxemburgs Life. xcerpts only. (For Dunayevskayas letter on Trotsky, see #6037.)
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written Sept. 11, 1979.
On Marxs Philosophy of Revolution as not only the most important part of the three in the title, “but THE WHOLE.
F. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution, September, 1979 – March 1981
29. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written Sept. 9, 1979.
Asks McShane for research into greetings by English women sent to the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party Congress meeting in London in April-May, 1907.
28. Dunayevskaya letter to Joseph O’Malley, written Aug. 30, 1979.
Calls his attention to Marxs 1880-82 Ethnological Notebooks, and asks correction of O’Malleys statement in his Introduction to Marxs Critique of Hegels Philosophy of Right that Marxs productive years of research ended in 1878. Also included here are O’Malleys reply, written Sept. 21, 1979, and Dunayevskayas further discussion, written Oct. 8, 1979. Subjects include the Hegel Society of America, and Marx scholarship by Maximilian Rubel and others.
27. Baruch Knei-Paz (Jerusalem, Israel) letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 15, 1979.
Comments on his reading of Dunayevskayas work in Marxism and Freedom and Philosophy and Revolution.
26. Dunayevskaya letter to Peter Wermuth, written July 28, 1979.
Asks for his assistance in locating and translating certain passages in works by Luxemburg; discusses Lenins critique of Trotskys conciliationism and her own view.
25. Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, written June 23, 1979.
On the relationship of Engels to Marx, and its impact on all Marxism after Marxs death, especially on the question of the relationship of philosophy to organization.
24. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 21, 1979.
On the relationship of Marx to Engels, and of Marx to Hegel. Bergmanns original letter (handwritten) is missing, but a typed transcription of the letter, with Dunayevskayas marginalia, is included.
23. Dunayevskaya letter to Mikhail Vitkin, written June 18, 1979.
On her view of the differences between Marx and Engels, and her study of Lenins 1914 Philosophic Notebooks.
22. Dunayevskaya letter to A (Tehran, Iran), written June 14, 1979.
Responds to his report on Marxist-Humanist revolutionary activity in Iran, and proposes a Philosophic Action Group for work there. Also included is Dunayevskayas first draft of her Introduction to an Iranian edition of Marxs 1844 Humanist Essays, which these Iranian friends planned to publish.
21. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 4, 1979.
Comments on the first draft chapter of Dunayevskayas book, focusing on the relationship between Marx and Engels. Bergmanns letter, handwritten, is also transcribed in typescript. Dunayevskayas response, written June 18, 1979, is also included.
20. Additions to the Syllabus for the Philosophy and Revolution Classes, written by Dunayevskaya May 1-2, 1979, for classes in her 1973 book given by News and Letters Committees.
Dunayevskaya re-titles her final lecture as From Dialectic Methodology to the Dialectics of Liberation.
19. Rosa Luxemburg and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution, a talk given at Wayne State University (Detroit), International Womens Day, March 8, 1979.
Dunayevskayas presentation begins with the mass march of Iranian women held that day against Khomeinis attacks on womens freedom. This transcription was not checked by Dunayevskaya. Also included here is Dunayevskayas letter to Dear Friends, written March 10, 1979, describing the International Womens Day meeting, the events in Iran, and her discussions with an Iranian revolutionary en route to Iran on her ideas for the publication of a Farsi-language pamphlet on International Womens Day. Throughout this period, Dunayevskaya worked intensively with Iranian revolutionaries and wrote a series of Political-Philosophic Letters on the Iranian Revolution (#5998).
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Mikhail Vitkin, written March 2, 1979.
Comments on Vitkins book, The Orient in the Philosophic-Historic Conception of Marx and Engels (1972), and on the differences between Marx and Engels on the Asiatic mode of production.
17. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 16, 1979.
A discussion of Dunayevskayas just-completed trip to Mexico. Reports on her meetings with a peasant opposition leader and with womens liberationists, and relates both to the work on Rosa Luxemburg, Todays Womens Liberation Movement, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution.”
16. Allison Jaggar letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 15, 1979.
Comments on the first draft chapter of Dunayevskayas book as published in News & Letters (Jan.-Feb., 1979). Included here is Dunayevskayas response, written Feb. 23, 1979.
15. Remarks by Dunayevskaya at a meeting sponsored by News and Letters Committees, (Detroit) on the first draft chapter of the book, Feb. 4, 1979.
Transcript of remarks was not checked by Dunayevskaya.
14. Dunayevskaya letter to Mikhail Vitkin, written Jan. 16, 1979.
Asks for a dialogue on the interrelationship of Man/Woman in Marx in 1844 and 1882. Also included here is a letter from Vitkin to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 14, 1978 (in Russian).
13. Lawrence Krader letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 31, 1978.
Comments on Dunayevskayas draft chapter and on his own views on womens liberation, on tendencies within Marxism, and within anthropology. Over the next three months, Dunayevskaya and Krader exchanged eight more letters, two by Dunayevskaya, and five by Krader, concluding with her letter of March 29, 1979. All are included here. The correspondence includes discussion and sharp debate over womens liberation, the nature of the Russian and world economy today, and the differences between Marx and Engels, especially in relation to the Hegelian dialectic. Krader also comments on his work with still unpublished writings of Marx.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Sheila Rowbotham, written Dec. 12, 1978.
Responds to Rowbothams letter of Nov. 23; on womens liberation, the vanguard parties of the Left, and forms of organization, as related to the draft chapter just completed.
11. Dunayevskaya letter to Angela Terrano, written Dec. 7, 1978.
Asks for Terranos recollections of Dunayevskayas 1952 or 1953 discussions with Black women workers on Simon De Beauvoirs The Second Sex.
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Lawrence Krader (Berlin, West Germany), written Nov. 30, 1978.
Comments on his Introduction to, and editing of, Marxs Ethnological Notebooks (Van Gorcum, 1972); sends him galley proofs of her first draft chapter from her work-in-progress, Marxs and Engels Studies Contrasted: Relationship of Philosophy and Revolution to Womens Liberation. Included here also is Kraders response, written Dec. 7, 1978 — a discussion of the critical reception of his book.
9. Sheila Rowbotham, letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 23, 1978.
On womens liberation and the Left in Britain. Included here is handwritten letter by Rowbotham and rough transcript of the letter (typewritten), with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
8. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written Nov. 10, 1978.
On the divergence between Marx and Engels, as seen in Engels 1888 preface to the Communist Manifesto. On the same day, Dunayevskaya completed her first draft chapter of the new book and wrote a letter to Dear Friends, describing its content (#6436).
7. Mikhail Vitkin letter to Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 29, 1978.
In Russian. Included here is Dunayevskayas response to Vitkin, on her dissatisfaction with Ryazanovs reports on Marxs archives. Dunayevskayas response is dated Nov. 6, 1978.
6. A Note on Pope John Paul II.
A note by Dunayevskaya written Oct. 16, 1978 on the implications, especially for womens liberation and for Latin America, of the election of Cardinal Wojtyla as Pope. Included here is the note as printed in News & Letters (November, 1978). The following day Dunayevskaya wrote a letter to Dear Sisters, discussing her new study of Marxs Ethnological Notebooks as contrasted to Engels Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. This letter is already included in the Dunayevskaya Collection (#6434).
5. Dunayevskaya letter to Mikhail Vitkin (Manitoba, Canada), written Oct. 1, 1978.
On his article, Karl Marx and the Asiatic Mode of Production (Asian Thought and Society, 1978).
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Sept. 24, 1978.
Addressed to all teachers, students, readers, and re-readers of Marxism and Freedom; calls attention to a paragraph on p. 89 of this 1957 work by Dunayevskaya, which concerns the relationship between the limits of a theoretical work and the indispensability of the theoretician.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Sept. 10, 1978.
On the relationship between Marx and Engels from the writing of The Holy Family to Capital. Excerpts only.
2. Stephen Bronner letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 27, 1978.
Responds to Dunayevskayas letter; cites points of agreement and disagreement on Luxemburg. Also included here is a brief reply from Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 9, 1978.
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Stephen Bronner, written Aug. 16, 1978.
Comments on the mss. of his book, The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg.
E. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution, August, 1978 – September, 1979
34. Dunayevskaya letter to Sheila Rowbotham, written June 29, 1978.
Asks Rowbotham to correspond with her on the work on the book. The following day, June 30, 1978, Dunayevskaya writes to Harry McShane on the work on the book. This letter to McShane was selected by Dunayevskaya as the first letter in a collection of letters on the process of writing Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution; they are included in an earlier volume of the Dunayevskaya Collection (#6432).
33. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, Michael Connolly and Eugene Walker, written June 26, 1978.
On preparations for the News and Letters Committees Convention. Dunayevskaya discusses the need for inwardization, for recollection, even when one does not know the whole RL book.
32. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given June 12, 1978.
On the first draft of her Perspectives report. Dunayevskaya here proposes changing the title of her book-to-be to Rosa Luxemburg, Todays Womens Liberation Movement and Marxs Theory of Revolution.
31. Dunayevskaya letter to Sybille Plogstedt (Berlin, West Germany), written June 12, 1978.
Asks for discussion of attitudes in the Womens Liberation Movement to Luxemburg.
30. Dunayevskaya letter to Meintje Westerbeek, written June 8, 1978.
Thanks Westerbeek for her translations and summaries of Roland-Holsts writings on Luxemburg.
29. S (East Europe) letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 26, 1978.
Responds to Dunayevskayas request for references to Luxemburgs writings on women; offers suggestions for further research.
28. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written Feb. 1, 1978.
Asks for references to Luxemburgs writings on women, and on Luxemburgs relations with Lenin in 1905-06.
27. Dunayevskaya letter to Herbert Marcuse, written Jan. 31, 1978.
Asks for discussion of Luxemburgs work in the period 1910-1914.
26. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Sisters, written Nov. 26, 1977.
On a television discussion on Sexism, Politics and Revolution in which Dunayevskaya participated; on the International Womens Year Conference in Houston, Texas.
25. Erich Fromm letter to Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 26, 1977.
On Luxemburg and the male Social Democrats.
24. Dunayevskaya letter to Erich Fromm, written Oct. 20, 1977.
On Luxemburgs reference, in a letter from prison, to the slaying of Achilles by Penthesilea.
23. Dunayevskaya letter to Karen Honeycutt, written Oct. 20, 1977.
On the relationship between Clara Zetkin and Luxemburg.
22. Dunayevskaya letter to Therese S. (Paris, France), written Oct. 18, 1977.
Asks for background on Edith Thomas, author of The Women Incendiaries; discusses womens liberation in France in Marxs day and in the post-World War II period.
21. Dunayevskaya letter to Peter Bergmann, written Oct. 3, 1977.
Asks for discussion on Luxemburgs attitude to Lenins Materialism and Empirio-Criticism; on Luxemburg on Womens Liberation.
20. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Aug. 7, 1977.
On collectivity and SELF-reorganization, a discussion of the relationship between Marx and Engels.
19. Dunayevskaya letter to Suzanne Casey, written July 18, 1977.
On Dunayevskayas new perspective on the question of male chauvinism after the publication of her essay Sexism, Politics and Revolution in Mao’s China (#5423). Dunayevskaya suggests the possibility of changing the title of the book-to-be to: Sexism, Politics and Revolution, with the previously suggested title becoming the sub-title.
18. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, Lou Turner and Diane Lee, written July 4, 1977.
On Judith Van Allens study of the 1920s Igbo Womens Uprising in Nigeria.
17. Dunayevskaya letter to Anny Brackx (London, England), written July 1, 1977.
On Brackxs editorship of the feminist journal, Spare Rib, and her view of Luxemburg.
16. Leadership and Politicalization as Ground for Organizational Growth
. Presentation by Dunayevskaya to Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given June 15, 1977.
15. Philosophy and Revolution: New Stage of Thought or New Form of Revolt?
Presentation by Dunayevskaya to final class in Philosophy and Revolution, given March 27, 1977. Transcript of speech by Dunayevskaya was checked by her.
14. Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fanon and the Dialectics of Liberation Today.
Presentation by Dunayevskaya to series of News and Letters Committees classes on Philosophy and Revolution, given Dec. 5, 1976. Transcript of speech by Dunayevskaya was checked by her.
13. Dunayevskaya letter to Isabel do Carmo (Lisbon, Portugal), written Oct. 4, 1976.
On do Carmos views of Rosa Luxemburg and of Marxs 1844 discussion of the Man/Woman relationship.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Peter Wermuth, written Sept. 11, 1976.
Asks for translation and summarization of works by Luxemburg, 1910-13.
11. Dialectics of Leadership as the Creation of a Philosophic Nucleus in Historys Mirror, and Todays Objective Crises, OR Self-Thinking Idea as the Self-Bringing Forth of Liberty.
Presentation by Dunayevskaya to Executive Session of Convention of News and Letters Committees, given Sept. 5, 1976. Brief excerpts only.
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Erich Fromm, written July 15, 1976.
On the relationship between Rosa Luxemburg and the Womens Liberation Movement; on Dunayevskayas work on Absolute Negativity as New Beginning. Dunayevskayas essay, Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries, had just been published by Womens Liberation-News and Letters Committees as Appendix to their pamphlet, Working Women for Freedom. (#5370).
9. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written May 30, 1976.
On the needed creation of a philosophic nucleus within Marxist-Humanism; on Chapter 1 of Philosophy and Revolution.
8. Dunayevskaya letter to William Pelz, written May 10, 1976.
On his study of The Role of Proletarian women in the German Revolution, 1918-1919.
7. Dunayevskaya presentation on East-Coast Report and Next Book-to-be, given to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, May 3, 1976.
Presentation proposes a new title for the book: Rosa Luxemburg, Todays Women Theorists, and the Womens Liberation Movement.
6. Raya Dunayevskaya on Tour.
A listing of dates, places, and topics from Dunayevskayas East Coast and Midwest lecture tour, April 7 – April 29, 1976. Dunayevskayas topics on the tour included the new revolutions in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, which she had discussed in her Political-Philosophic Letter, Will the revolution in Portugal advance? (#5182), and further discussion on Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries. At the conclusion of her tour in New York, she presented her view of the philosophic foundations of all her new work: Our Original Contribution to the Dialectic of the Absolute Idea as New Beginning (#5622).
5. Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries.
A series of lectures by Dunayevskaya, given at University Center for Adult Education in Detroit, Sept. 22 – Oct. 27, 1975. Included here is the brochure for the class series. A summary of the six lectures, written by Olga Domanski, has already been included in the Dunayevskaya Collection (#5363). Audio tapes of the six lectures are on deposit at Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs. During the lecture series, Dunayevskaya announced that she intended to develop her work on this subject into a new book.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Maria Barreno (Lisbon, Portugal), written Sept. 9, 1975.
Barreno is one of the authors of the feminist literary work, New Portuguese Letters.
3. Dialectics of Leadership, summary of a speech by Dunayevskaya to Executive Session of News and Letters Committees Plenum, Aug. 31, 1975.
Dunayevskayas report had three parts: 1) the artificer, laws of the heart and the fetishism of commodities; 2) the dialectics of an epoch in crisis and a period of revolution; 3) what to do?
2. Olga (Sufritz) Domanski letter to Seymour Ricklin, University Center for Adult Education, Detroit, written June 13, 1975.
Domanski, as secretary to Dunayevskaya, submits Dunayevskayas proposal to teach a course at UCAE on Women as Reason as Well as Force, Nationally and Internationally. The course was to be given in September and October, 1975. Included also is a second letter, written by Domanski on June 18, 1975, modifying the title to Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries, and proposing a preliminary reading list for the classes.
1. Womens Creativity and Liberation: Nationally and Internationally.
A brief summary of a talk given by Dunayevskaya to Wayne State University (Detroit) Womens Liberation, March 7, 1975. Summary by Olga Domanski, checked by Dunayevskaya.
D. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution, March, 1975- June, 1978
14. New Additions to the Mss. As of Dec. 1, 1981.
A compilation of additions made by Dunayevskaya to the mss. of the book after it was turned in to the publisher. Not all of the additions created by Dunayevskaya in this period are included here, and further changes in the text of the book were added as late as February, 1982, during the reading of the galley proofs. The passages added here include Dunayevskayas addition of an entirely new Section 4 of Chapter 12, entitled A 1980s View, probably written in late October, 1981.
13. Notes for Changes on the Book, Chapter by Chapter, Even Though All Im Interested In Is a New Chapter 12.
Notes for changes in the mss. of the book as a whole, written by Dunayevskaya in August, 1981. Page references are to the mss. copy of the book, typed in May, 1981. These notes include a four-page outline of a New Chapter 12 to be entitled: New Grounds for the 1980s Emerge on the 100th Anniversary of Marxs Last Writings. Dunayevskaya added a later version of Chapter 12 to the mss. copy of the book in September, 1981.
12. Introduction. Written April 11, 1981.
This first draft of the Introduction is significantly different from the version written May 5, 1981 and included in the book as published.
11. Final form for what was Chapter 6, which becomes now Part Two: Womens Liberation.
Probably written in January, 1981. For Dunayevskayas letter on this work, see #6465.
10. Chapter 10, Section 3. The Unknown Ethnological Notebooks, the Unread Drafts of Letters to Zasulich, as Well as Undigested 1882 Preface to the Russian Edition of the Communist Manifesto.
Completed Dec. 23, 1980. This is the first draft of what became Chapter 12 of the book as published, The Last Writings of Marx Point a Trail to the 1980s, although it does not include major elements of the finished chapter, specifically Dunayevskayas new category, Post-Marx Marxism as a pejorative.
9. Chapter 10. Philosopher of Permanent Revolution and Organization Man.
Written in early December, 1980. This is a draft of what became Chapter 11 of the book as published, The Philosopher of Permanent Revolution Creates New Ground for Organization.
8. Women’s Liberation, Then and Now.
Draft of what was then Chapter 6 of the book. Written October, 1980, and circulated to members of Womens Liberation-News and Letters Committees for discussion. For Dunayevskayas letter to Womens Liberation-News and Letters Committees as she completed this draft chapter, see #6459. This draft chapter was later expanded into Part II of the book, The Womens Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason.
7. Very Rough Draft of Final ChapterPhilosophy of Revolution: The Development of Marx from a Critic of Hegel to the Author of Capital and Theorist of Permanent Revolution.
Written in September, 1980. One month later, Dunayevskaya decided to expand this chapter into three chapters, calling it “a whole Part” of the book.
6. Rough Draft of Chapter 7Spontaneity, Organization, Philosophy (Dialectics).
Probably written in September, 1980. This chapter is not included in the book in the form seen here; it was dropped by March, 1981. Parts of this mss., however, appear in Chapter 4 and Chapter 11 of the book as published.
5. Notes on Chapter 5 — World War I and Revolutions of 1917, 1919.
This draft chapter, written in September, 1980, is the only draft known of Chapter 5 of the book. For a letter by Dunayevskaya on this draft, see #6459.
4. Outline of Marxs Philosophy of Revolution.
Probably written in May, 1980, these notes are Dunayevskayas first thoughts on what was eventually to become Part III of the book.
3. Draft of Chapter IV. Marxs and Luxemburgs Theories of Accumulation of Capital, Its Crises and Inevitable Downfall. Written April, 1980.
This draft chapter, as revised, became Chapter 3 of the book as published.
2. Draft of Chapter III. Luxemburgs Interregnum and Excursus Into Marxs New Continent of ThoughtFrom the National Question (Before and During World War I) to Accumulation of Capital.
Written January, 1980. Portions of this draft chapter were included in what became Chapter 4 of the book as published; other parts were included in Chapter 9 and Chapter 12. For Dunayevskayas comments on this draft chapter as she completed it, see her letter of Jan. 14, 1980 (#6448). Also included here are Further Random Notes on Chapter 3, written by Dunayevskaya sometime during 1980.
1. Rough Outline Rosa Luxemburg Book.
This is the earliest draft known of any portion of the book. Probably written in April, 1977, it contains handnotes by Dunayevskaya and by Olga Domanski.
C. Draft Chapters of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution
The first chapter of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution was drafted by Dunayevskaya in the period Sept.-Dec., 1978. Entitled Relationship of Philosophy and Revolution to Womens Liberation: Marxs and Engels Studies Contrasted, this draft chapter was published in News & Letters (Jan-Feb, 1979), and included in Vol. X of the Dunayevskaya Collection (#6467). Two other draft chapters were also published in News & Letters and previously included in this collection: Chapter 1 of the book, Before and After the 1905 Revolution: Two Turning Points in Luxemburgs Life (#6420); and Chapter 2, The Break with Kautsky, 1910-11 (#6426). Included here are drafts of chapters which have not previously been circulated to a wide audience, although they were shared with a number of womens liberation activists, intellectuals, and members of News and Letters Committees at the time they were written.
p. Notes on Womens Liberation in Russia from several sources:
1) Alfred Meyer, Marxism and the Womens Movement, in Atkinson, Dallin and Lapidus, Women in Russia (1977); 2) Jacqueline Heinen, Kollontai and the History of Womens Oppression, New Left Review #110 (1978); 3) Richard Stites, The Womens Liberation Movement in Russia (1978); 4) Elzbieta Ettinger, Comrade and Lover (1979); 5) J.P. Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg (1966).
o. Notes on the relationship of Lenins and Trotskys theories of revolution in the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
Notes center on Solomon Schwartz, The Russian Revolution of 1905, and Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution.
n. Fragments of drafts of what became Chapter 12 of the book, The Last Writings of Marx Point a Trail to the 1980s.
m. What was used and what was skipped from the chapter on the Ethnological Notebooks.
Notes for the re-working of Dunayev-skayas 1979 draft chapter into what became Chapter 12 of the book.
1. Form and Sequence of Chapter 2, Part II.
Another partial draft of what became Chapter 9 of the book.
k. Rough Notes for Chapter 2, Part II. From the Grundrisse to the Critique of the Gotha Program.
An early draft of what became Chapter 9 of the book.
j. Quotations on Womens Liberation, taken by Dunayevskaya from a variety of sources:
Kathleen Gough, The Origin of the Family, in R. Reiter, Toward an Anthropology of Women; Sheila Rowbotham, Women, Resistance and Revolution; J.P. Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg.
i. Notes on Luxemburgs letters to Karl and Luise Kautsky.
h. Notes on Maria Stewart and Sojourner Truth.
g. Notes for the Black Dimension in the Womens Liberation chapter.
On the period 1848-61, especially Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman; on Ida B. Wells; on women in 20th century Africa and America. Much of this material appears in Chapter 6.
f. Alternate beginning for the Woman Question.
Fragments of an early draft of Chapter 7, Luxemburg as Feminist; Break with Jogiches.
e. Todays Womens Liberation Movement.
Notes on womens liberation in Portugal and Iran, and in the 1960s movement in the U.S.
d. Form for Womens Liberation chapter: Then and Now.
Notes on womens liberation in Luxemburgs time, and in the 1960s movements view of Marx on Man/Woman.
c. Notes on the Spartacist Uprising, 1919.
b. Conclusion for Chapter 2.
Notes on the years 1910-11, Luxemburgs research on the cause of imperialism.
a. Notes Re Preface to book.
15. Notes on Form, Sequence, Etc.
g. Fragments of notes on quotations from Luxemburg, gathered by Dunayevskaya from several sources.
Works excerpted include Mary-Alice Waters, Rosa Luxemburg Speaks; Dick Howard, Selected Political Writings of Rosa Luxemburg; Robert Looker, Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Political Writings.
f. Translation of Luxemburg letter to Hans Diefenbach, written May 12, 1917.
On her writing of the Anticritique. Translation of this letter is by Peter Wermuth, probably sent to Dunayevskaya in 1978.
e. Notes on Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (1951).
Also includes notes on Luxemburgs letters on this work in 1911 and 1917.
d. Notes on Gilbert Badia, Rosa Luxemburg (1975).
Typed notes written by Michael Connolly; handnotes by Dunayevskaya.
c. Notes on Paul Froelich, Rosa Luxemburg (1972).
b. Notes on Luxemburgs review of Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, as published in Vorwarts, Jan. 8, 1905.
a. Notes on J.P. Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg (1966).
These notes are in several parts: 1) extensive chapter-by-chapter notes on Nettls two volume work; 2) notes on Nettls references to women; 3) notes on the 1905-06 Russian Revolution and on Luxemburg as an émigré revolutionary in 1898.
14. Summaries of Works on and by Luxemburg
bb. The Humanism of Hegelian Philosophy or Adventures of the Hegelian Dialectic.
Text of a lecture given by Dunayevskaya in the early 1960s. Date and place unknown.
aa. Lecture notes for Rosa Luxemburg, 1905, 1919,
a lecture given by Dunayevskaya. at Russian Institute, Columbia University, March 3, 1982.
z. Notes for Dialectics of Liberation, or Dialectics in Thought and in Action.
Lecture #3 of five talks on WDET-FM (Detroit, Michigan) by Dunayevskaya on her book, Philosophy and Revolution (1973). This lecture was sub-titled, Is the Self-Thinking Idea Really a Self-Bringing Forth of Liberty? and was broadcast on WDET-FM on Jan. 11, 1977.
y. Notes on Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vols. I-III, as translated by E. Haldane (1955).
x. Notes on Herbert Marcuse, Re-examination of the Concept of Revolution, New Left Review #56 (1969).
w. Notes on N. Bukharin and the Hegelian dialectic.
Dunayevskayas discussion begins with extracts from a letter by Grace Lee to C.L.R. James, written May 21, 1949. Works discussed in Dunayevskayas notes concentrate on Bukharins Historical Materialism (1925), Hegels Science of Logic, Lenins Abstract of Hegels Science of Logic. A note by Dunayevskaya, added by hand to the typed notes, is dated May 5, 1978.
v. Notes on Grace Lee, letter of March 22, 1950,
on Hegels concept of Condition, in Science of Logic, Vol. II, pp. 98-106 (Johnston and Struthers translation, 1929). Included here are Dunayevskayas extracts of Lees letter. The letter itself has not been found. Also included is a P.S. by Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 12, 1959.
u. Notes on Karl Korsch, Karl Marx (1938).
t. Notes on Reinhart Klemens Maurer, Hegel and das Ende der Geschichte (1965).
These notes are restricted to the footnotes in Maurer on pp. 86-89, on Hegels three final syllogisms of his Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences.
s. Notes on Gerard Chaliand, Revolution in the Third World (1977); Robert Alexander, Trotskyism in Latin America (1973).
r. Notes on George A. Kelly, Hegels Retreat from Eleusis (1978). Notes focus on Chapter 1, Politics and Philosophy, and Chapter 8, Hegel and the Present Standpoint.
q. References in Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 38, to Capital.
p. Notes on Adam Ulam, Stalin and the Theory of Totalitarianism, in Ernest J. Simmons, ed., Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Thought(1955).
o. Notes on Carol Gould, Marxs Social Ontology (1978).
n. Notes on Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination (1973).
m. Notes on Shlomo Avineri, Hegels Theory of the Modern State (1972).
1. Notes on George Lichtheim, Marxism (1961).
k. Notes on Paul Mattick, Marxism and the New Physics, in Philosophy of Science (1962).
j. Notes on Maxime Rodinson, review of Fred Halliday, Arabia Without Sultans, in New Left Review #95 (1976).
i. Notes on George Lichtheim, Rebel, a review of Wilfrid Desan, The Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre, in New York Review of Books (Jan. 28, 1965).
h. Notes on Leonard Krieger, History and Existentialism in Sartre, in The Critical Spirit, ed. by Kurt Wolff and Barrington Moore, Jr. (1968).
g. Notes on Richard Schacht, Alienation (1971).
f. Notes on V.I. Lenin, Leninski Sbornik, IX and XII (1930).
Dunayevskayas notes on the original Russian editions of Lenins notebooks. First page of Dunayevskayas notes is missing. Notes on Vol. IX include quotations from the Introduction by Deborin. Notes on Vol. XII include quotations from the Introduction by Adoratsky.
e. Phenomenology and Mao.
Notes on quotations from Hegels Phenomenology used in Dunayevskayas analysis of Mao.
d. Notes on Karel Kosik, The Dialectics of the Concrete (1976).
Fragment only.
c. Notes on Nicholas Lobkowicz, ed., Marx and the Western World (1967).
Dunayevskayas notes concentrate on the article by Herbert Marcuse on The Obsolescence of Marxism.
b. Notes on Karl Lowith, From Hegel to Nietzsche (1964).
a. Notes on J.N. Findlay, Hegel: A Re-Examination (1958).
13. Notes on Books and Articles NOT on Rosa Luxemburg
r. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, Eugene Walker and Michael Connolly, written Oct. 18, 1980.
On her projection of a whole Part for the book on Marxs philosophy of revolution.
q. Notes on Carl Boggs, Gramscis Marxism (1976).
p. Kevin Anderson letter to Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 20, 1980.
On his research in the F.A. Sorge papers in the New York Public Library.
o. Notes on Maximilian Rubel, Marx Without Myth (1975).
Notes focus on Marxs last decade.
n. Fragment from an early draft of Chapter 12 of the book.
On Marxs 1882 Preface to the Russian edition of the Communist Manifesto.
m. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Sisters, written Oct. 15, 1978.
On her study of Marxs Ethnological Notebooks.
1. Notes for Draft paragraph on p. 190 of RLWLKM, in the third paragraph, after To Marx the development of the relationship of the individual to society and to the state was crucial.
Probably written in 1983.
k. Dialectics and the Asiatic Mode of Production (re both Lukacs critique of Engels; Lawrence Kraders AMP; Lichtheims Marx and the AMP; and E. Leacocks Introduction to Engels Origin of the Family).
Notes by Dunayevskaya on attitudes to Marxs category of Asiatic mode of production.
j. Notes on Cyril Levitts review of Marxs Ethnological Notebooks, Catalyst #12 (1978).
Dunayevskayas notes include a reexamination of Kraders Introduction to the Notebooks.
i. Notes on George Lichtheim, Marx and the Asiatic Mode of Production, in St. Anthonys Papers (1963).
h. Notes on Lawrence Krader, The Asiatic Mode of Production (1975).
g. Notes on Karl Marx, Ethnological Notebooks (1972).
Includes notes on Introduction by Lawrence Krader; notes on Krader, The Works of Marx and Engels in Ethnology Compared, International Review of Social History (1973).
f. Quotations from Yvonne Kapp, Eleanor Marx, Vol. II: The Crowded Years (1976).
e. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin Anderson, written Nov. 3, 1980.
Requests Anderson search for a copy of Ryazanovs article mentioning the finding of Marxs Ethnological Notebooks.
d. Quotation from D. Ryazanov, New data about the literary legacy of Marx and Engels, Bulletin of the Socialist Academy (1923).
c. Quotation from Frederick Engels letter to Karl Kautsky, written Feb. 16, 1884.
b. Notes on Eleanor Burke Leacock, Introduction to Frederick Engels, Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, 1972 edition.
a. Notes on Hal Draper, Marx and Engels on Womens Liberation, International Socialism (1970 .
12. Chapter 12
e. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 5, 1980.
On the concept of permanent revolution; on Marxs work for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
d. Dunayevskaya letter to Arthur McGovern, written June 1, 1978.
On dialectics in McGoverns writing of the draft of his book on Marxism and Christianity.
c. Notes on David Joravsky, Soviet Marxism and Natural Science, 1917-1932 (1961).
b. Quotation from H.M. Hyndman, The Record of an Adventurous Life (1911).
a. Notes on Frederick Engels, Critique of the Social-Democratic Program of 1891,
as published in Neue Zeit (1901).
11. Chapter 11
h. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written July 1, 1973.
On the Forward by Martin Nicolaus to the English translation of Marxs Grundrisse.
g. Notes on the Dona Torr edition of Capital, Vol. I (1939).
f. Notes on Andrew Levines apologia for Althusser in Radical America, after first series in RA, Vol. III, 5.
e. Quotations from Althusser vs. Marx. Notes on Louis Althusser, For Marx (1969).
Also included are quotations from Marxs correspondence, and from Vol. I of Capital.
d. Notes on Maximilian Rubel, Bibliographie des oeuvres de Karl Marx (1961).
Extracts translated from French by Barbara Gibson. Handnotes are by Dunayevskaya.
c. Notes on Roman Rosdolsky, The Making of Marxs Capital (1977).
The two sets of notes included here concern Rosdolskys comments on Rosa Luxemburg.
b. Notes on John Mepham and D-H Ruben, eds., Issues in Marxist Philosophy (1979).
a. Two fragments of early drafts of Chapter 10, Section 2, of the book.
On Marxs Capital and its relationship to his Grundrisse.
10. Chapter 10
1. Translations of extracts from Franz Metering, La These de Karl Marx sur Democrite et Epicure (1901), as published in La Nouvelle Critique (1955).
Translation from the French by Calum Weir.
k. Quotation from Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, as cited in Dunayevskayas Then and Now, written April 16,1953.
j. Notes on Karl Lowith, From Hegel to Nietzsche (1964).
Quotation from Marxs interpretation of Hegels Phenomenology only.
i. Notes on Nicholas Lobkowicz, Theory and Practice (1967).
h. Notes on Joseph Schumpeter, The Communist Manifesto in Sociology and Economics, Journal of Political Economy, 1949.
g. Notes on Maximilian Rubel and Margaret Manale, Marx Without Myth (1975).
f. Notes on Herbert Marcuse, The Foundation of Historical Materialism (1932),
as published in Studies in Critical Philosophy (1972).
e. Notes on Norman Livergood, Activity in Marxs Philosophy (1967).
d. Translations of extracts from early works of Marx, including:
From the Preliminary Work for Marxs Ph. D. Dissertation, 1839ff.; Aus der Rheinescher Zeitung (On the Freedom of the Press), May 1842 and July 1842; Debates on the Law Regarding Thievery of Wood, October, 1842; The Liberal opposition in Hannover, Nov. 1842; Letters to Ruge, May 1843; Critique of Hegels Philosophy of Right, March-Aug., 1843. The selections were translated in the 1940s from the German in Mehrings 1901 selection of Marxs Early works. Translations by Grace Lee.
c. Notes on Rosa Luxemburg, From the Legacy of Our Masters, a review of Mehrings collection of early writings of Marx and Engels (1901).
Also included are Dunayevskayas extracts of quotations from Mehrings Introduction to the collection.
b. Notes on Notes for Marxs Ph. D., 1839-41, as excerpted by Lloyd Easton and Kurt Guddat, The Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society (1967).
a. Two fragments of early drafts of Chapter 9 of the book.
On Marxs doctoral dissertation (1841); on Marxs view of Feuerbach.