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w. Lecture notes for speech on Women, Literature and Revolution, given at University of California-Berkeley, March 7, 1976.
v. Lecture notes for speech by Dunayevskaya on Literature and Revolution to University Center for Adult Education (Detroit), given Oct. 20, 1975.
The speech was the fifth in a series of lectures on Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries.
u. Lydia Sargent (South End Press), letter to Dunayevskaya written Feb. 13, 1979.
Invites Dunayevskaya to submit an article to a forthcoming book on Women and Revolution. Handnotes are by Dunayevskaya.
t. Notes on Peter Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg, (1966).
Fragment only; one page on Luxemburgs view of 1905-06 Russian Revolution.
s. The Detroit News and Letters Committee Celebration of International Womens Day, March 8, 1981.
Includes presentation by Olga Domanski.
r. Notes on Vivian Gornick, Essays on Feminism (1978).
q. Notes on Branka Magas, Theories of Womens Liberation, New Left Review #66, 1971.
p. Notes on Catalyst, Nos. 10-11, Summer 1977, Special Issue on Feminist Thought.
o. Notes on Toni Cade, ed., The Black Woman (1970).
Two different sets of notes on this work are included.
n. Notes on Rayna R. Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women (1975).
m. Notes on Sheila Rowbotham, Women, Resistance and Revolution (1972); F.C. Griffin, ed., Woman as Revolutionary (1973).
1. Notes on Heleieth I.B. Saffioti, Women in Class Society (1978).
k. Notes on Joyce Maupin, Working Women and their Organizations (1974).
j. Neda Azad letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 5, 1981.
On women in the Iranian Revolution.
i. Notes on Adrienne Rich, Anti-Feminists, New York Review of Books, Nov. 30, 1972.
h. Notes on Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (American edition, 1953).
Two sets of notes are included.
g. Dunayevskaya letter to Isabel do Carmo, probably written in 1976.
On Rosa Luxemburg and the Womens Liberation Movement today.
f. Exchange of correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Maria Barreno, beginning Feb. 25, 1975 and ending Sept. 9, 1975.
Discussion on Womens Liberation, on Marxs Marxism, and on Dunayevskayas series of lectures on Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries (1975).
e. Notes on issue of Revolucao (Jan. 27, 1977), the newspaper of the PRP-BR (Portugal) .
d. Notes on Aborto e Contracepao, em debate, a colloquium, organized by the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa (Portugal), March 1975.
Dunayevskayas extracts from the debate center on the remarks of Isobel do Carmo, the representative of the PRP-BR.
c. Portugal, 1975.
Notes by Dunayevskaya. on The Three Marias and the Portuguese Revolution.
b. Notes on Maria Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho da Costa, The Three Marias (1975).
Also included is a speech by Maria Barreno as printed in News & Letters (April, 1975).
a. Notes on Hal Draper, Karl Marxs Theory of Revolution (Books I and II, 1977).
8. Chapter 8
i. Fragment (one page only) from Karen Honeycutt, Clara Zetkin: A Left-Wing Socialist and Feminist in Wilhelminian Germany (1975).
Handnotes on the fragment are by Dunayevskaya.
h. Notes by Peter Wermuth on Rosa Luxemburgs letters to Mathilde Jacob, written in 1978.
Description of letters at Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
g. Eugene Walker letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 16, 1980.
On Dunayevskayas draft of the Chapter on Luxemburg as Feminist.
f. Dunayevskaya letter to Meintje Westerbeek, written June 8, 1978.
On Roland-Holsts biography of Rosa Luxemburg. Also included is Westerbeeks translation of excerpts from Roland-Holsts book, on the Luxemburg-Karl Kautsky relationship, and on Accumulation of Capital.
e. Dunayevskaya letter to Hans Cozak, written Dec. 9, 1980.
On Henrietta Roland-Holsts Rosa Luxemburg (1937). Also included is Cozaks letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 26, 1981, with translation of Roland-Holsts discussion of Luxemburgs anti-war struggle in World War I.
d. Womens Liberation–in the air.
Notes by Dunayevskaya on the Black dimension and Womens Liberation at the time of the 1848 revolutions, and again in 1905.
c. Notes on Feliks Tych, ed., Roza Luxemburg: Linty do Leona Jogichesa-Tyszki (1968, 1971).
b. Notes on anti-Semitic and male chauvinist attacks on Luxemburg by German Social Democratic Party leaders in 1910-11.
Fragment only. One reference is to J.P. Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg.
a. Notes on Elzbieta Ettinger, Comrade and Lover (1979).
7. Chapter 7
i. Brief Summary of Talk Given by Raya Dunayevskaya to Wayne State University Womens Liberation, March 7, 1975.
Dunayevskayas speech was entitled Women’s Creativity and Liberation, Nationally and Internationally. Handnotes, on the summary are by Dunayevskaya.
h. Notes on Women and Russia: Dorothy Atkinson, Alexander Dallin and Gail Warshofsky Lapidus, Women in Russia (1977).
Dunayevskayas notes concentrate on articles by Alfred G. Meyer and Richard Stites; Richard Stites, The Womens Liberation Movement in Russia (1978); Jaqueline Heinen, Kollontai and the History of Womens Oppression, New Left Review #110 (1978).
g. Notes on Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle (1972).
f. Notes on Werner Thonnessen, The Emancipation of Women (1973).
e. Notes on Bell Gale Chevigny, The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fullers Life and Writings (1976).
d. Notes on Elzbieta Ettingers use of the expression Womens War to refer to the 1863 Polish insurrection, in Ettingers Comrade and Lover (1979).
c. The Black Dimension (to be put in after the 1907 Congress).
An early draft of a section of Chapter 6 of the book; it was evidently written originally to follow discussion of the 1907 Congress of the RSDRP in Chapter 1.
b. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Jan. 30, 1981.
On the need to devote a whole Part II of the book to Womens Liberation. Also included is the first draft of the letter, and a response to it written by Eugene Walker, on Feb. 12, 1981.
a. Dunayevskaya letter to Diane Lee, written Jan. 19, 1977.
A response to Lees Second Thoughts on the book Black Woman by Toni Cade (1970). Also included is Lees Second Thoughts.
6. Chapter 6
e. Notes on J.P. Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg (Chapters 14 and 15 of Vol. II only.)
d. Notes on Luxemburg, Letters from Prison, (1966).
c. Last excerpts from Nettl re: German Revolution.
Notes by Dunayevskaya on Chapters 16 and 17 of J.P. Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg (1966). Affixed to the top of the first page of notes is a quotation from Hegels Science of Logic on Cause.
b. The Revolution Starts.
An early draft by Dunayevskaya of the last section of Chapter 5 of the book, on the period from November 1918 to January 1919. Fragments only.
a. Notes on Eric Waldman, The Spartacist Uprising of 1919 (1958).
5. Chapter 5
k. Notes on E.J. Simmons, ed., Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Thought (1955).
j. Lenin and Junius: the Junius Pamphlet.
Notes by Dunayevskaya on V.I. Lenin, The Pamphlet by Juniu (1916), as published in English translation in Lenins Collected Works, Vol. 19, (1942).
i. Notes on Walter Held, Once Again, Lenin and Luxemburg, Fourth International, June, 1940.
h. Notes on Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Theories of Imperialism, (1980).
g. Notes on V.I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 19.
Dunayevskayas extracts of Lenins critiques of Luxemburg on the National Question.
f. Excerpt on Rosa Luxemburg from a letter on Trotsky, written Oct. 14, 1948.
A mimeographed publication of part of a letter written by Dunayevskaya. The full text of the letter is included in the Dunayevskaya Collection, #1326.
e. Quotation from Hegel, Science of Logic, Johnston and Struthers edition, (1929).
On Hegels view of causality. Dunayevskaya wrote at top of page: Quotations appended to Organization chapter.
d. Translation by Dunayevskaya of V. I. Lenin, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, from Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 30 (Russian edition), 1932.
Copy marked Rough translation; probably created in the 1940s.
c. Notes on Norman Geras, The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg (1976).
Dunayevskayas notes concentrate on quotations from Luxemburg on the 1917 Russian Revolution. Fragment only.
b. Notes on Bertram D. Wolfe, ed., The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism? (writings by Rosa Luxemburg), 1961 edition.
(The title Leninism or Marxism? was not Luxemburgs; her title was Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy.)
a. Notes on Horace Davis, ed., The National Question: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg (1976).
4. Chapter 4
f. Notes on Edward Thomas Wilson, Russia and Black Africa Before World War II (1974).
e. Notes on Rosa Luxemburg, Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy (1904),
as published in Dick Howard, Selected Political Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1971).
d. The Dialectic (specifically Science of Logic, even more specifically Section 3 of Vol. 2, and most specifically the Absolute Idea) vs. the Methodology of Luxemburg.
Dunayevskayas notes begin with a reference from Roman Rosdolsky, The Making of Marxs Capital (1977).
c. Notes on Georg Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness.
Brief notes on references in Lukacs book to Luxemburg.
b. Notes on Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital, trans. by Agnes Schwarzchild (1951).
a. Notes on The Accumulation of Capital — an Anti-Critique, by Rosa Luxemburg, and Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital, by N. I. Bukharin.
Edited and with an Introduction by Kenneth J. Tarbuck. (1972). Two sets of notes on this book are included.
3. Chapter 3
e. Notes on Olga Hess Gankin and H. H. Fisher, The Bolsheviks and the World War (1940).
These notes were created by Dunayevskaya in 1948.
d. Notes on Carl E. Schorske, German Social Democracy, 1905-17 (1955).
Fragment only.
C. Notes on Mary-Alice Waters, Rosa Luxemburg Speaks (1970).
b. Notes on Norman Geras, The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg (1976).
a. Notes on Dick Howard, Selected Political Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1971).
2. Chapter 2
h. Translation by Dunayevskaya of Rosa Luxemburgs Concluding remarks to the 1907 Congress of the RSDRP. Speech given to 24th session of the Congress.
Two drafts of Dunayevskayas translation are included here. Extracts from this speech appear in Chapter 1 of Dunayevskayas book.
g. Lecture notes from a speech by Dunayevskaya on the 1905 Russian Revolution, given at Russian Institute, Columbia University, Jan. 30, 1980.
Fragment only.
f. Alternative: On 1905 Revolution and 1907 Congress.
Fragments from two different early drafts by Dunayevskaya of Chapter 1 of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution.
e. Notes on Oskar Anweiler, The Soviets: The Russian Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Councils, 1905-21 (1974).
d. Notes on Solomon M. Schwarz, The Russian Revolution of 1905 (1967).
This document is marked 2nd version. Also included is a fragment from a 3rd version of my notes on Schwartzs The Russian Revolution of 1905.
c. Notes on Vol. 12 of Lenins Collected Works, Jan.-June, 1907, 1962 English language edition.
Also included are quotations by Lenin from Vol. 12.
b. References to the Fifth Congress (Pyatyi Syezd RSDRP).
Notes from V.I. Lenins Collected Works, Vol. 12, Jan.-June, 1907; from Leon Trotskys My Life; from Angelica Balabanoff, Impressions of Lenin; from Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed. Also included are notes from Minutes of the Fifth Congress, Contents of the Sessions. Extensive handnotes by Dunayevskaya on these reading notes are included, as well as unmarked copy of the reading notes.
a. Notes on The Fifth London Congress of the RSDRP (Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party), 1963 edition of the original 1909 publication of the 1907 Congress.
Notes on speeches by Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotsky. Also includes Dunayevskayas notes on references to the 1907 Congress in Trotskys History of the Russian Revolution.
1. Chapter 1
B. Chapter Files Created At the Conclusion of the Writing of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution
At the completion of the writing of Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution, Dunayevskaya asked her secretary-colleague, Olga Domanski, to collect all of the materials used in the writing of the book, and organize them into chapter files, patterned on the files Dunayevskaya had organized herself during the writing of Philosophy and Revolution. Domanski created these chapter files in the Fall of 1982. The files included: 1) reading notes on books and articles studied by Dunayevskaya; 2) a small amount of correspondence concerning the writing of the book; 3) notes and texts from presentations given during the writing of the book; 4) texts of articles written by others, taken from books, journals or newspapers, and often marked with Dunayevskayas marginalia; 5) translations of works from Russian, Polish, German and French, both by Dunayevskaya and by others. In this section, the chapter files are presented as they were created by Olga Domanski. The names given to files which are not strictly chapter files were assigned by Domanski. Two kinds of documents have been excluded from the files as presented here: 1) translations of articles by Marx, Luxemburg and others which were not made by Dunayevskaya; and 2) texts of published articles by others which Dunayevskaya marked up.
7. Table of Contents as written September 5, 1981.
Also included here is Dunayevskayas draft for that Table of Contents.
6. Table of Contents as written March 17, 1981.
5. Table of Contents as written Dec. 16, 1980.
4. Table of Contents as written Nov. 3, 1980.
3. Table of Contents as printed in the Official Call for Convention of News and Letters Committees, June 1, 1980.
2. Table of Contents as written May 5, 1980.
1. Draft titles for the new book.
A list of proposed titles created by Dunayevskaya from October, 1975 through September, 1979.
A. Draft Titles and Tables of Contents for Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution
In the Spring of 1975, Raya Dunayevskaya was invited to give a series of lectures on womens liberation at the University Center for Adult Education in Detroit, Michigan. During these lectures, which were entitled Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries, Dunayevskaya announced plans to write a new book on this subject. From the Fall of 1975 to the Fall of 1978, she engaged in preliminary research on the book, and drafted six possible titles. Dunayevskaya began to write draft chapters in Sept. 1978. These draft chapters were accompanied by five different proposed Tables of Contents of the book, written from May 1980 through September 1981.
Section IV Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution
73. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written April 9, 1973.
Returns galley proofs for Part II of P&R; notes major transpositions in the sequence of Chapter 5, on Mao Tse-tung.
72. Erich Fromm telegram to Dunayevskaya, written March 25, 1973
Suggests four editorial corrections in the mss.
71. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written March 9, 1973.
Responds to McShanes letter of March 4, 1973. On the dichotomy between philosophy and organization in Lenin.
70. Harry McShane letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 4, 1973.
On his own remembrances of Lenin and Kautsky on organization in the pre-World War I period. Included here are both the handwritten original and a typed transcript.
69. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 12, 1973.
On Philosophy and Revolution as Organization Builder; on the relationship of Lenin to Lassalles concept of organization.
68. Dunayevskaya letter to Iring Fetscher, written Jan. 27, 1973.
Response to Fetschers critique of her mss.
67. Iring Fetscher letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 18, 1973.
Sends comments on his reading of the mss. of P&R. Included here are Fetschers detailed comments. Some of the handnotes on the comments are Fetschers; others are by Dunayevskaya.
66. Erich Fromm letter of Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 8, 1973.
Offers to write a statement on P&R for use by the publisher.
65. Dunayevskaya letter to Peter Bergmann, written Dec. 22, 1972.
Brief response to his critique. The full texts of both Bergmanns critique and Dunayevskayas response are included in Vol. XII of the Collection, #10093.
64. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 14, 1972.
On his opposition to Dunayevskayas argument for Why Hegel? Why Now? Included here are both the handwritten original and a typed transcript.
63. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written Nov. 29, 1972.
Response to editorial suggestions and proposal on sub-title.
62. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 27, 1972.
Final editorial questions and comments; suggests sub-title for P&R: From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao.
61. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written Nov. 17, 1972.
Responds to Huetts suggestions on Parts II and III. Included here also is Dunayevskayas letter of Nov. 17, 1972 to the editorial staff at Dell, detailing mss. changes.
60. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written Nov. 13, 1972.
Explains why she cannot agree to drop the Sartre chapter.
59. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 3, 1972.
Suggests eliminating the Appendix (translation from Marxs Grundrisse), and the chapter on Sartre.
58. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 2, 1972.
Editorial comments and suggestions on Parts II and III.
57. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 1, 1972.
Editorial comments and suggestions on Part I of P&R.
56. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 1, 1972.
Suggests sub-title for P&R.
55. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written July 18, 1972.
Objects to Dunayevskayas proposed sub-title for P&R Marxist-Humanism.
54. Dunayevskaya letter to John ONeill, written July 17, 1972.
Reports that Dell will not agree to print O’Neills preface.
53. Dunayevskaya letter to Hayden White, written July 15, 1972.
Reports that she has signed a contract for the publication of P&R with Dell; discusses Whites critique of chapter on Marx.
52. Hayden White letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 31, 1972.
Comments on Chapter 2 of P&R, on Marx.
51. Dunayevskaya letter to McKim Steele, written May 16, 1972.
On the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary movement.
50. Dunayevskaya letter to the National Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, written Feb. 1, 1972.
Reports that the book has been mailed to publishers; asks for internalization of it as historic transition point; discusses three final syllogisms of Hegels Philosophy of Mind.
49. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, Dell Books, written Jan. 31, 1972.
Sends the finished mss. of P&R.
48. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 10, 1971.
Argues against Dunayevskayas thesis: Why Hegel? Why Now?.
47. Dunayevskaya letter to Hayden White, written Nov. 9, 1971.
On the Sartre chapter of P&R. Dunayevskaya had just completed a draft of her Introduction to P&R on Nov. 7, 1971.
46. Hayden White letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 5, 1971.
Comments on Chapter 1, on Hegel.
45. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol and Eugene Walker, written Oct. 5, 1971.
Proposes issuing a special pamphlet of her 1953 Letters on Hegels Absolutes; discusses Hegels three final syllogisms of Philosophy of Mind.
44. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written Sept. 20, 1971.
Asks Domanski to correct the contents page of P&R to reflect the new title Dunayevskaya had just chosen for Chapter 1 Absolute Negativity as New Beginning. Dunayevskaya was at this time working on final editing of all the chapters of P&R.
43. Dunayevskaya letter to John ONeill, written May 25, 1971.
Reports she has just finished Chapter 9, and that the book as a whole is completed. Includes a brief contents page of all nine chapters. ONeill was at that time at work on a Preface to P&R.
42. S (East Europe) letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 6, 1971.
Comments on draft of Chapter 8 of P&R, especially on the Polish workers revolt of 1970-71.
41. Mihailo Markovic letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 23, 1971.
Comments on just completed draft of Chapter 8 of P&R, on State-capitalism and the East European Revolts.
40. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written March 27, 1971.
On leadership responsibilities as relationship to P&R.
39. Dunayevskaya letter to Ron Brokmeyer, written March 10, 1971.
Asks for translation of pp. 85-90 of Maurers book; discusses the importance of the three final syllogisms of Hegels Philosophy of Mind, on which Maurer is commenting in those pages. Brokmeyer, in turn, asked Fred Ehrmann to carry out the translation work.
38. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Greeman, written March 5, 1971.
Asks Greeman (in Paris) to obtain Reinhart Klemens Maurers Hegel and das Ende der Geschichte (1965).
37. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written March 3, 1971.
Response to Alans letter of Feb. 23, 1971.
36. John Alan letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 23, 1971.
Comments on Chapter 9, New Passions and New Forces; on Black Masses, as vanguard. Two days earlier, Dunayevskaya met with Womens Liberationists, to discuss Part III of P&R.
35. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written Feb. 4, 1971.
On the Hegelian concepts of Fact and Ground in the Smaller Logic.
34. Dunayevskaya letter to Will Stein, Mike Connolly, and Bonnie McFadden, written Jan. 15, 1971. Response to Steins letter of Jan. 4, 1971.
On the relationship between subjects of revolution and a philosophy of liberation.
33. Will Stein letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 4, 1971.
Asks for clarification of the relationship between revolutionary subjects and philosophy of revolution.
32. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Dec. 14, 1970.
On the completion of the second draft of Part II of P&R, with the exception of the chapter on Sartre.
31. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written Dec. 10, 1970.
Reports finishing the chapter on Mao; suggests preparation for their collaboration on Chapter 9, New Passions and New Forces.
30. Dunayevskaya letter to Mihailo Markovic, written Dec. 9, 1970.
On the need for a chapter in Part III of P&R on East Europe in the period since 1963.
29. Dunayevskaya letter to Jade, written Dec. 6, 1970.
Written during the re-writing of the chapter on Mao, Dunayevskaya comments on Joseph Levensons last article in China Quarterly (1969), Communist China in Time and Space: Roots and Rootlessness. Levenson had just died.
28. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Nov. 14, 1970.
On the methodological problems of Part II, which she now began to re-write.
27. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Nov. 11, 1970.
On just-completed second draft of Chapter 2, on Marx.
26. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written Oct. 26, 1970.
Asks for his collaboration in work on a new last chapter of P&R, on the Black Dimension at home rather than abroad.
25. Report on The First Telos International Conference: The New Marxism, Telos, (Fall, 1970).
Excerpts from report on the conference in which Dunayevskaya participated, as written up by Paul Piccone.
24. Dunayevskaya letter to Mihailo Markovic, written Sept. 15, 1970.
Asks if he would be interested in working on a chapter on the relationship of philosophy to revolution in East Europe.
23. Dunayevskaya letter to Paul Piccone, written Aug. 1, 1970.
Accepts Piccones invitation to discuss her work on P&R at the Telos conference, Oct. 1970. Also included is a P.S. written Aug. 1, 1970, on Dunayevskayas relationship with Paul Buhle; and a tentative schedule of the conference.
22. Dunayevskaya letter to Paul Piccone, Telos, written May 7, 1970.
On the title of her article on Lenin, submitted to Telos for publication. The article was published by Telos (Spring, 1970), and is already included in the Dunayevskaya Collection, #4516.
21. Dunayevskaya letter to J.N. Findlay, written Feb. 9, 1970.
On Hegel as a contemporary of ours; outlines Part I of P&R. In the following three weeks, Dunayevskaya completed a second draft of Chapter 3, on Lenin.
20. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Feb. 2, 1970.
Reports finishing third draft of Chapter 1; comments on her 1953 letters on Hegels Absolutes as cause of the break-up of Correspondence Committees.
19. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Jan. 15, 1970.
On why she has decided to bring in Hegels discussion on Attitudes to Objectivity in the Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences into her discussion of Science of Logic in Chapter 1 of P&R. During this period, Dunayevskaya was at work on a third draft of Chapter 1 of the book.
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Mihailo Markovic, written Jan. 7, 1970.
Responds to Markovics critique of Chapter 1 of P&R; on Hegels Absolutes and their ramifications for Marx and Lenin.
17. Dunayevskaya letter to Freely Perlman, written Jan. 4, 1970.
Response to Perlmans critique of several draft chapters of P&R; a discussion of Hegel, Sartre and Marx in the book.
16. Mihailo Markovic letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 2, 1970.
Comments on draft of Chapter 1 of P&R, on Hegel.
15. Dunayevskaya letter to Nick Ternette, written Dec. 8, 1969.
Discussion of the history of Marxs Grundrisse, part of which Dunayevskaya had sent to Ternette for translation as possible appendix to P&R.
14. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written Oct. 27, 1969.
Asks for discussion on philosophy and reality in East Europe.
13. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written Oct. 27, 1969.
On Dunayevskayas relationship with Tony Cliff, and on state-capitalist theory. Asks McShane to obtain A.V. Millers new translation of Hegels Science of Logic for her.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, Mike Connolly, and Will Stein, written Oct. 14, 1969.
On archives of Marxist-Humanism as a continuing, living experience.
11. Philosophy and Leadership. Notes for a presentation by Dunayevskaya to Executive Session of News and Letters Committees Plenum, Aug. 31, 1969.
Also included is an abbreviated transcript of Dunayevskayas report.
8-10. Dunayevskaya letters, 1969.
Jan. 3, 1969, letter to Will Stein responds to Stein’s notes on Dunayevskaya’s draft of Chapter 1 of P&R.
March 7, 1969, letter to “Dear Friends,” on a “possible re-structuring” of Parts II and III of P&R.
July 5, 1969, letter to “Dear Friends” reports that she has just completed the preparation of her archives for donation to Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs; discusses the whole period 1941-55 as “Marxist-Humanism.” During this period Dunayevskaya also wrote another document summarizing her work, “The Newness of Our Philosophic-Historic Contribution,” #4407.
7. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Dec. 7, 1968.
Sends out the Introduction to Part II of P&R: The Interregnum: Void and Retrogression vs. Movement from Practice; gives Outline for Part II. Also included here are excerpts from the Resident Editorial Board minutes of Dec. 15, 1968, on Part II.
6. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Nov. 28, 1968.
Draft of the Call for the Black-Red Conference to be held in Detroit, Jan., 1969. For the report on the conference, at which Dunayevskaya presented themes from P&R to Black workers and civil rights activists, see #4338.
5. Olga Domanski letter to Bonnie McFadden, written Oct. 26, 1968.
Outlines Part I of P&R as a whole; asks for help with typing.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Oct. 25, 1968.
On Marxs Grundrisse and its relevance today.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Oct. 23, 1968.
On changes in the form of the book; sends new section of Chapter 2, on the Grundrisse.
2. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Oct. 13, 1968.
A follow-up to the preceding letter; on organizational responsibilities of leadership in matters of philosophy.
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Oct. 13, 1968.
Reports on progress toward completing the draft of P&R — second draft for most chapters, and first for those chapters that have heretofore been only in my mind. Sends the second draft of Chapter 1, Hegels Absolutes as New Beginnings
G. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Philosophy and Revolution, October, 1968 – April, 1973.
42. Ivan Svitak letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 12, 1968.
Reports that he read Dunayevskayas Marxism and Freedom about three years ago, and sometime I will show you an article where there is a quotation from your work, e.g., on your question of whether man can be free in nowadays society.
41. Dunayevskaya letter to Ivan Svitak, written July 31, 1968.
On events in Czechoslovakia and the need to establish purely philosophic relations among Marxists.
40. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written May 28, 1968.
On P&R as the most concrete of all the tasks facing Dunayevskaya as leader of a revolutionary organization.
39. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written May 24, 1968.
On theoretical and organizational perspectives from the vantage point of beginning from the Absolute.
38. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol, written May 20, 1968.
On the procedure I now follow on Philosophy and Revolution; plans for future work on the book. Dunayevskaya resumes work on a second draft of Chapter 1, on Hegel.
37. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written March 21, 1968.
Sends her draft chapter on economic reality; compares her approach in this chapter to his draft on the same subject.
36. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 19, 1968.
Accompanies draft of Economic Reality and the Dialectics of Liberation; questions whether it will be in Part I of the book.
35. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Ashcraft, written March 19, 1968.
Response to his critique of draft chapter on Trotsky; discussion of new draft of Lenin chapter.
34. Richard Ashcraft letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 12, 1968.
Comments on draft chapter on Leon Trotsky as Theoretician.
33. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 20, 1968.
Sends draft chapter on todays economic reality as written by S (East Europe) for study. Reports that she is working on her own draft of the same chapter, but that neither chapter will be Part I of the book; Hegel is where we will have to start.
32. Dunayevskaya letter to Alfonso Roberts, written Jan. 29, 1968.
On Louis Althussers essay, Contradiction and Over-determination.
31. Dunayevskaya letter to Russell Gilmore, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, written Jan. 29, 1968.
On Dunayevskayas documents on the history of the theory of state-capitalism, and the possibility that she might donate them to that repository.
30. On Che Guevara.
Transcript of comments by Dunayevskaya, given Jan. 25, 1968, at the Detroit local of News and Letters Committees, after the murder of Che Guevara. Transcript not corrected by Dunayevskaya.
29. Dunayevskaya letter to S (Fast Europe), written Jan. 20, 1968.
Requests a copy of Marxs Grundrisse in Russian edition; Marxs original conclusion to Vol. I of Capital, known as Chapter 6. Comments on difficulties in writing the chapter on economics.
28. Dunayevskaya letter to Charles Leinenweber, written Dec. 27, 1967.
A response to his critique of the draft chapter on Leon Trotsky.
27. Dunayevskaya letter to New York Review of Books, written Dec. 19, 1967.
Comments on Connor Cruise OBriens article on the tragedy of Biafra (Dec. 21, 1967). Portions of this letter appear in Chapter 7 of P&R, The African Revolutions and the World Economy.
26. Noam Chomsky letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 3, 1967.
Asks to read draft chapter on Leon Trotsky. During this period, Dunayevskaya completed her Notes for a series of lectures on Lenin on Hegels Science of Logic (#3885).
25. Charles Leinenweber letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 29, 1967.
Comments on her draft chapter on Leon Trotsky as Theoretician, which was completed Nov. 3, 1967.
24. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol, written Nov. 18, 1967.
On theoretical problems which arose in trying to write Chapter 1 on the world economic situation. On the relationship of philosophy to economics, as Dunayevskaya critiques Tony Cliffs article Crisis in China, (International Socialism, 1967).
23. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written Nov. 13, 1967.
On the relationship between philosophy and economics in the work on the book. Dunayevskaya reports beginning work on drafting a chapter on economic reality today.
22. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Sept. 17, 1967
.Places herself off limits for all work except work on the writing of P&R.
21. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written Sept. 10, 1967.
Comments on his draft chapter, and asks for further research.
20. S (East Europe) letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 13, 1967.
Encloses his draft of chapter on economics, in three parts: 1) State Planning; 2) Analysis of the Third World; 3) Relationship of Industrialized World to Underdeveloped.
19. Dunayevskaya, letter to Eugene Walker, written Aug. 9, 1967.
On the urgent need to gather my writings in outside publications, in letters, in Dunayevskayas own files.
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Aug. 6, 1967.
On preparation for discussion of responsibilities of leadership at News and Letters Committees Plenum; an analysis of Regis Debrays book, Revolution in the Revolution. Parts of this letter appear in Chapter 9 of P&R, New Passions and New Forces.
17. Richard Ashcraft letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 14, 1967.
Comments on Dunayevskayas draft chapter on Hegel.
16. Dunayevskaya letter to Egon Lass, written June 12, 1967.
On Hegels principle of negation of negation.
15. Egon Lass letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 4, 1967.
Comments on Chapter 1, Dunayevskayas draft chapter on Hegels Absolutes, especially on a point from her discussion of Hegels three final syllogisms of his Philosophy of Mind.
14. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 20, 1967.
Gives an outline of P&R as a whole.
13. Philosophic Conference on the New Book.
Transcript of the Introduction to lecture given by Dunayevskaya in Detroit, March 19, 1967. Transcript not corrected by Dunayevskaya.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends (in the Detroit local of News and Letters Committees), written March 13, 1967.
On the nature of the proposed theoretical conference.
11. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written Feb. 16, 1967.
A discussion of approaches to the economic chapter of P&R which S was then drafting.
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 25, 1967.
Reports all three chapters of draft of Part II — Why Hegel? Why Now? — are finished; discusses plans for theoretical conferences.