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ff. Dunayevskaya letter to Jonathan Spence, written Feb. 9, 1962.
On Mao and Hegels category of Will; a response to Spences critique of Dunayevskayas The Challenge of Mao (1962).
ee. Dunayevskaya letter to Jonathan Spence, written June 1, 1961.
On Absolute Idea in Hegels Science of Logic, on Lenins view of Absolute Idea in his Philosophic Notebooks; on Marxs Absolutes in Capital. Dunayevskaya says she would like to use [the letter] as the basis for my actual writing of that chapter on the Absolute Idea in my book.
dd. Notes on reports by Jonathan Spence, created by Dunayevskaya.
Two different sets of notes on Spences reports are included here.
cc. Jonathan Spence letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 30, 1961.
A general chronological outline of Mao from the 1927 Hunan report to the present, the communists in power. Includes quotations from Maos writings.
bb. Jonathan Spence letter to Dunayevskaya, written April 12, 1961.
On Maos rise to power, 1927-37. Includes research report on Mao in 1920s and during the Long March.
aa. Dunayevskaya letter to Jonathan Spence, written Feb. 27, 1961.
On Mao and Hegels categories in Phenomenology of Mind.
z. Notes on articles in journals and newspapers. Summaries and extracts from a wide variety of articles on China and on Mao Tse-tung,
including: Peking Review, China Quarterly, The Militant, Dissent, New Statesman, Foreign Affairs.
y. Notes on my own articles on China
on 1) footnotes to 1957 edition of Marxism and Freedom; 2) Challenge of Mao (1963); 3) Afro-Asian Revolutions (1959).
x. Notes on 0. Edmund Clubb, China and Russia: The Great Game (1971).
w. Notes on Xenia Eudin and Robert North, Soviet Russia and the Far East (1957), R.R. Palmer, A History of the Modern World (1962).
v. Notes on Maurice Meisner, Li Ta-chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism (1967).
u. Notes on Nym Wales, My Yenan Notebooks (1959-61).
t. Notes on Edgar Snow, The Other Side of the River (1964).
s. Notes on Richard Lowenthal, The Prospects for Pluralistic Communism,
in Milroad Drachkovitch, Marxism in the Modern World (1965).
r. Notes on Mao Tse-tung, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan (1927),
as published in Conrad Brandt, Harry Schwartz and John Fairbank, eds., A Documentary History of Chinese Communism (1952).
q. Notes on Donald Zagoria, Sino-Soviet. Friction in Underdeveloped Areas, Problems of Communism (1961); Franz Schurmann, Pekings Recognition of Crisis, Problems of Communism (1961).
p. Notes on the documents of the First National Peoples Congress of the Peoples Republic of China, 1955; and on the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (1956).
o. Notes on Han Suyin, The Morning Deluge (1972).
Dunayevskayas review of this work was published in New Politics (1973).
n. Notes on Etienne Balazs, Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy (1964).
m. Notes on Chou Yang, The Fighting Task Confronting Workers in Philosophy and the Social Sciences (1963).
1. Notes on G.F. Hudson, R. Lowenthal, R. MacFarquhar, The Sino-Soviet Dispute (1961).
k. Notes on R. Palm Dutt, Whither China? (1967).
j. Notes on Amaury de Riencourt, The Soul of China (1958); Conrad Brandt, Stalins Failure in China, 1924-27 (1958); Benjamin Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao (1958); Brandt, Schwartz and John Fairbank, A Documentary History of Chinese Communism (1952) .
i. Notes on Tang Tsou and Ho Ping-ti, eds., Chinas Heritage and the Communist Political System (1968).
h. Notes on Tang Tsou, ed., China in Crisis (1968).
g. Notes on The Great Cultural Revolution in China, compiled and edited by the Asia Research Centre (1968).
f. Notes on Stuart Schram, Mao Tse-tung (1967).
e. Notes on Joseph Levenson, The Past and the Future of Nationalism in China (1968).
Also included are notes on The Dilemma of Mao Tse-tung by Kikuzo Ito and Minoru Shibata .
d. Notes on Chow Tse-tung, The May Fourth Movement (1960).
c. Notes on Chalmers Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power (1962).
b. Notes on Franz Schurmann, Ideology and organization in Communist China (1966).
Also includes notes on Chinas Power Structure, an article by Schurmann in Diplomat (Sept. 1966).
a. Notes on Roderick MacFarquhar, The Hundred Flowers Campaign (1960).
8. Chapter 5 Mao
w. Production Statistics and the Devaluation of the Ruble.
Mss. for article by F. Forest (Dunayevskaya), written Oct. 3, 1948. Also included are Russian Notes, mss. written in Fall, 1948, on economics in Russia and the conditions for the workers.
v. Notes on Isaac Deutscher, Stalin: A Political Biography (1949)
Notes concern only Deutschers biographical information.
u. Fragment from notes for The Revolt of the Workers and the Plan of the Intellectuals (1951)
by Dunayevskaya. On Marxs and Lenins methods of analysis of capitalism.
t. Notes on L. Trotsky on anti-semitism and the Middle East, and on Trotskyist views in the 1960s.
s. Trotskyism and the Marxist-Leninists.
Notes on Regis Debrays attacks on Trotskyism in Revolution in the Revolution (1967).
r. Notes on L. Trotsky on Tolstoy,
as published in Fourth International, 1951.
q. Notes on L. Trotsky, Our Revolution (1918),
as translated by Olgin.
p. The Timeliness of the Slogan, The United States of Europe.
Translation by F. Forest (Dunayevskaya) of an article by L. Trotsky written in June, 1923. Translation completed on June 15, 1944. This translation remains unpublished.
o. Fragment of a draft chapter on Trotsky for P&R.
One page only.
n. Re: Kant, rough notes.
On Trotskys as a Kantian philosophy of history.
m. Two quotations from V.I. Lenin, The Historical Meaning of the Internal Party Struggle in Russia (1910).
1. Notes on L. Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution (1932); The Permanent Revolution (1931); Introduction to Isaacs Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution (1938).
k. Notes on Isaac Deutschers three volume biography of Trotsky -The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast (1954, 1959, 1963)
theoretical subjects only.
j. Some Memories of Trotsky, text of an article written by Dunayevskaya for Asahi (Toyota, Japan), Dec. 11, 1965.
This article was written during Dunayevskayas 1965-66 trip to Japan. For the article as printed in Japanese, see #9876
i. Notes on Leon Trotsky on state-capitalism, not as in The Revolution Betrayed, but as in The Soviet Union and the Fourth International (1934), and What Next? (1932).
h. Notes on Leon Trotskys role in the 1905 Russian Revolution, from Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed (1954).
g. Notes on Robert Conquest, The Great Terror (1968).
f. Notes for a lecture by Dunayevskaya on Leon Trotsky as Theoretician,
given Nov. 8, 1961 at Columbia University. Fragment only.
e. Notes on The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, from The Founding Conference of the Fourth International (1939).
d. The Evolution of the Political Attitudes of Leon Trotsky in his Later Years.
Text of a lecture by Dunayevskaya given April 30, 1959, at the Russian Circle, University of Chicago.
c. Notes on L. Trotsky, Stalin (1940), and on Trotskys Introduction to Harold Isaacs, The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution (1938).
b. Notes on L. Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution (1930).
Also includes notes on Trotskys My Life (1931), and his Diary in Exile (1935).
a. Notes on L. Trotsky, War and Revolution (1923).
Two different texts of these notes are included.
7. Chapter 4 Trotsky
m. Dunayevskaya letter to McKim Steele, written May 16, 1972.
On the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary movement; on the Marx-Engels relationship; on Lenin.
1. Notes on Lenin, taken from Dunayevskayas 1949 Letters to C.L.R.
James and Grace Lee.
k. Notes on V.I. Lenin, from Selected Works.
Lists his discussions on peasantry.
j. Notes on Technology and Culture (Winter 1961).
Notes on articles by A. Zvorikine on the history of technology as a science; notes on David Joravsky, on The History of Technology in Soviet Russia and Marxist Doctrine.
i. Some Notes on Lenins State and Revolution.
Notes created by Grace Lee in the 1940s. Handwritten comments are by Dunayevskaya.
h. Notes on Milroad Drachkovitch, The Revolutionary Internationals (1966).
Dunayevskayas review of this book was published in The Activist (Oberlin, Ohio, 1966).
g. Notes on David Joraysky, Soviet Marxism and Natural Science (1961).
f. Notes on Cliff Slaughter, Lenin on Dialectics (1963).
e. Notes on V.I. Lenin, Abstract of Hegels Science of Logic, in Collected Works, Vol. 38 (1961).
Fragment of these notes, only.
d. Text of draft footnote for Chapter 3 of P&R on the Black Dimension in Lenin’s work.
This footnote does not appear in the published text.
c. Notes on Lenin on Hegels Absolute Idea (Philosophic Notebooks).
Some of the notes are taken from V.I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 38 (1961); others are from letters exchanged between Dunayevskaya, Grace Lee and C.L.R. James during 1949.
b. The Shock of Recognition and the Philosophic Ambivalence of Lenin.
Two fragments of a draft chapter on Lenin for P&R, written Jan. and Feb. 1970. One of the drafts is dated Feb. 28, 1970.
a. Hegelian Leninism or Dialectics of Liberation,
text of a presentation by Dunayevskaya to the Telos International Philosophic Conference. Given Oct. 9, 1970.
6. Chapter 3 Lenin
p. Draft of a review of Roman Rosdolsky, The Making of Marxs Capital (1977).
This review appeared in News & Letters, Jan.-Feb., 1978.
The following document was added to this file after Nov. 1973:
o. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 22, 1967.
On the Hegel-Marx relationship.
n. Richard Greeman letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 23, 1961.
Includes translation by Greeman from article by Kostas Axelos, a critique of Marx.
m. Notes for speech entitled Communism, Marxism and Liberty — The American Humanist Tradition,
given by Dunayevskaya at UCLA, 1958.
1. Notes for speech by Dunayevskaya to Universities and Left Review
(predecessor of New Left Review), given Oct. 26, 1959, in Britain.
k. Random Thoughts on the new mode of production.
Discussion by Dunayevskaya on modern machinerys relationship to the development of the new type of man. Probably written in the late 1940s. Handnotes, are by C.L.R. James.
j. Notes on Frederick Engels, Critique of the Social-Democratic Program (Erfurt) of 1891 (1901).
i. Fragment from notes on Nikolai Bukharin, Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital (1924).
h. Notes on Machinery and Modern Industry chapter in Karl Marx, Capital, Dona Torr edition (1939).
g. Quotations from letters of Karl Marx on the writing of Capital.
Also includes a brief discussion of Dunayevskayas Jan. 15, 1951 letter on the meaning of Capital, Vol. III, for the post-World War II period.
f. Notes on About the Preparation of a Scientific Edition of Theories of Surplus Value of Karl Marx, by V. Brushlinsky, from Voprosy Ekonomiki (1950).
Resumé of Brushlinskys article based on translation by Dunayevskaya. Also included is translation of Project of Prospectus of a Scientific Edition of Theories of Surplus Value of Karl Marx.
e. The Case of Eugene Varga, an unpublished miss. article by F. Forest (Raya Dunayevskaya), probably written in May, 1949.
On the debate among economists in Stalins Russia on the nature of capitalist crisis. A French translation of an earlier version of this article appeared in Quatrième Internationale (Paris, Jan.-Feb., 1948).
d. Quotation from letter written by Karl Marx for the International Workingmens Association to Pres. Abraham Lincoln, Jan. 7, 1865.
c. Notes on Karl Marx on the trade unions vs. revolutionary workers, from the September, 1871 London conference of the International Workingmens Association;
also includes a reference to Marxs letter to Engels of Oct. 7, 1858 on the English proletariat.
b. Excerpts from Karl Marxs unpublished Chapter 6 of Capital (the original ending to Vol. I), as translated by Dunayevskaya.
This document was evidently written for use in Dunayevskayas 1940s classes in Marxs Capital.
a. Notes on the Archives of Marx, Vol. 5, (Moscow, 1930).
A rough translation of excerpts from Marxs 1881 writing on A. Wagner. This document is based on Dunayevskayas 1940s translation of Marx on A. Wagner, which appears in Vol. III of the Dunayevskaya Collection (#1899).
5. Chapter 2 Marx, Section 3
p. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written July 1, 1973.
On the first English translation of the whole of the Grundrisse; commentary by Dunayevskaya on the Forward by the translator, Martin Nicolaus.
o. Fred Ehrmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 20, 1972.
Critique of translation of a section of Grundrisse to be included as Appendix to P&R.
n. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written May 25, 1971.
On excerpts from the Grundrisse to be included as Appendix to P&R.
m. Dunayevskaya letter to Bergmann, written Nov. 16, 1964.
On her obsession with Hegel and the Hegel-Marx relationship.
1. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 12, 1964.
Includes a translation by Bergmann of a passage from the Grundrisse on labor and the development of the individual, in response to Dunayevskayas request to check the translation of the same passage in Marcuses One-Dimensional Man. Both Bergmanns handwritten letter and Dunayevskayas typed copy of it are included.
k. Notes on Karl Marx, Grundrisse. Fragment on the automaton.
j. Notes on New Left Review #52 (1968), a special issue on France, 1968.
Notes concentrate on essays by André Gorz and Andrê Glucksman.
i. Notes on Iring Fetscher, Marxismusstudien, Rediscovery of a Native Son, Survey (1960).
Includes quotation from Heidegger on homelessness, and handnotes on Reinhart Klemens Maurers discussion of Hegels three final syllogisms of Philosophy of Mind.
h. Notes on Letter of Marx to Danielson, 4/10/1879.
Notes created by Dunayevskaya, June 15, 1951.
g. Fragment of draft of Chapter 2, Section 2, of P&R,on the Grundrisse, and Section 3, on Capital.
Probably written in 1971.
f. Notes on Introduction to the Grundrisse, as published in appendix to Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1904).
This was the first section of the Grundrisse to appear in English.
e. Notes on a fragment of the Grundrisse as translated by Anthony Barnett, entitled Notes on Machines.
Handnotes are by Dunayevskaya.
d. Extracts from Marxs Grundrisse der Kritik der politischen Oekonomie, trans. by Grace Lee.
Does not include any of the sections published in Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations. Handnotes are by Dunayevskaya.
c. Karl Marx in 1857-58 — Grundrisse der Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.
Commentary written by Grace Lee on her reading of Marxs Grundrisse. Handnotes are by Dunayevskaya. Includes also a translation by Lee of a brief excerpt from the Grundrisse.
b. Notes on sources of quotations in the Grundrisse (French edition, 1967).
Handnotes are by Bonnie McFadden.
a. Notes on Karl Marx, Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations,
a section of the Grundrisse, trans. by E.J. Hobsbawm (1965).
4. Chapter 2 Marx, Section 2
f. Notes on Karl Marx, Contribution to the Critique of Hegels Philosophy of Right (1843).
Also included is a quotation from Marxs 1844 essay, Alienated Labor.
e. Notes on Karl Marx, The Holy Family (1965 Moscow edition).
d. Notes on Karl Marx, Selected Essays, trans. by H.J. Stenning (1926).
Notes probably created by Grace Lee.
c. Notes on Karl Marx, The King of Prussia and Social Reform (1844).
A fragment of a larger set of notes.
b. Notes on Annenkovs Eine russische Stimme über Karl Marx (1883)
Largely in shorthand.
a. Notes on Karl Marx, Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic
as trans. by Dunayevskaya in Marxism and Freedom (1958). This is a different set of notes than appeared in the previous chapter file.
3. Chapter 2 Marx, Section 1
r. Morgan Gibson letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 8, 1971.
Comments on Chapter 1 of P&R; declines Dunayevskayas request to help edit the book.
q. Dunayevskaya letter to Mr. Goodwin, written April 25, 1968.
on Hegels critique of the institutional church.
p. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Porter, written Dec. 13, 1961.
A critique of his paper on Hegels Phenomenology of Mind.
o. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Jan. 25, 1961.
Cover letter sent out with Dunayevskayas Summation of Hegels Science of Logic.
n. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Dec. 12, 1960.
Cover letter sent out with Dunayevskayas Notes on Hegels Phenomenology of Mind.
m. Dunayevskaya letter to Saul Blackman, written Oct. 25, 1960.
on the difficulties of the Johnson-Forest Tendency in working out the dialectic, 1947-53.
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Joseph Buttinger, written Oct. 20, 1960.
On Hegels Phenomenology of Mind, Science of Logic, and Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences, as part of Dunayevskaya’s study of the philosophic foundations of the struggles for freedom in the underdeveloped countries.
k. Notes on Jean Hyppolite, Genese et Structure de la Phenomenologie de L’Esprit de Hegel (1946).
All quotations in French; most of the notes in English.
j. Notes on Gustav Wetter, Dialectical Materialism (1958).
i. Notes on Stuart R. Tompkins, The Russian Intelligentsia (1957).
h. Notes on Walter Kaufmann, Hegel (1965).
g. Notes on Karl Marx, Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic,
as trans. by Dunayevskaya in Marxism and Freedom (1958).
f. Notes on G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Nature, trans. by M.J. Petry (1970).
Most of the notes are actually on Petrys view of the three final syllogisms (paragraphs 575-577) in the Philosophy of Mind. Also included here are Notes on Jean Hyppolite, Studies in Marx and Hegel, trans. by John ONeill (1969).
e. Extracts on Labor, notes on Hegels Jenenser Realphilosophie, created by Grace Lee in the 1940s.
Most of the handnotes are by Lee.
d. Excerpts from the History of Philosophy by Hegel, notes created by Grace Lee (Boggs) in the 1940s.
Some of the handnotes are by Dunayevskaya; others are by Lee.
c. Notes on G.W.F. Hegel, History of Philosophy, Vol. III, trans. by Haldane and Simpson (1955).
b. Notes on Absolute Knowledge in G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind, trans. by J.B. Baillie (1931).
a. Notes on Absolute Idea in G.W.F. Hegel, Science of Logic trans. by A.V. Miller (1969).
2. Chapter 1 Hegel
o. Transcript of presentation given in Detroit on Dec. 5,1976, entitled Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fanon and the Dialectics of Liberation Today.
Transcript not corrected by Dunayevskaya.
n. Notes, for a speech at Berkeley, California, given April 14, 1976,
on Todays Global Crisis, Marxs Capital, and the Epigones, who try to Truncate It.
m. Notes for speech at University Center for Adult Education (Detroit), given in 1975.
On The Black Dimension, as part of a lecture series on Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries.
1. Notes for speech at Cass Technical H.S. (Detroit, Mich.), given April 11, 1975,
entitled Adventuring in Labor History and Literature: Black and English — A Philosophy of Liberation.
The following documents were added to this file after November, 1973:
k. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Nov. 11, 1970.
On her new (1970) draft of Chapter 2 of P&R, then entitled Marxs Transcendence of, and Return to, Hegel.
j. Exchange of letters between Jonathan Spence and Dunayevskaya, written February, 1962.
Begins with Spences critique of Dunayevskayas special essay printed in News & Letters (Jan.1962) on The Challenge of Mao Tse-tung. Dunayevskayas response centers on Hegels concept of Will and its relevance to Mao and to Stalin.
i. Dunayevskaya letter to Si (Charles Denby), written March 10, 1960.
On Maurice Merleau-Ponty, humanism, automation, and the Hegelian dialectic.
h. Quotations from Hegels Phenomenology of Mind, Marxs Capital, Dunayevskayas own writings.
g. Notes on Donald Egbert and Stow Persons, eds., Socialism and American Life (1952).
f. Notes on Jean Hyppolite, Studies on Marx and Hegel(1969).
e. Notes on George Lichtheim, The Concept of Ideology and Other Essays (1967).
d. Notes on G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to Philosophy of History,
as published in Carl Friedrich, ed., The Philosophy of Hegel (1953).
c. Notes on Eugene Kanenka, Ethical Foundations of Marxism (1962).
Two sets of notes are included.
b. Notes on D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (1924), and on N. Chiaramonte, Pasternaks Message, Partisan Review (1958).
a. Why Hegel? Why Now? Letter to Nathan Simon, probably written in Feb., 1965.
A revised version of a letter written Oct. 1, 1964 on the proposed outline for a Part of P&R with three subsections: on Marxs Debt to Hegel, on Lenins ambivalence toward Hegel and his shock of recognition, and on the task before us.
1. Part I — Why Hegel? Why Now?
A. Chapter Files Created During the Writing of Philosophy and Revolution (P&R)
Throughout the 15 years during which Dunayevskaya wrote Philosophy and Revolution — 1958 through 1973 — she created what she called chapter files for her work on the book. In these files she placed a wide range of documents from her studies: 1) reading notes on books and articles studied; 2) important correspondence on the subjects discussed in P&R, or on drafts of the chapters; 3) notes to herself — documents she often called random thoughts — as she worked out political-philosophic problems; 4) notes and texts from presentations she had given on aspects of the book; and 5) texts of articles by others, taken out of journals, newspapers or books, and marked-up with her own marginalia. In this section Dunayevskayas chapter files are included as she left them, with two exceptions: 1) texts of articles by others which Dunayevskaya marked up are not included here; 2) documents clearly added to these files by Dunayevskaya. after P&R was published in November, 1973 are included only at the end of each chapter file.Although the organization of these files often was drastically altered during the writing of P&R, to reflect the organization of the chapters of the book-in-progress, they are presented here in the order Dunayevskaya left them, i.e., an order corresponding to the sequence of chapters in P&R as it was published.
Section III Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and From Marx to Mao
22. Resident Editorial Board (REB) letter to Dear Friends, written Dec. 31, 1957.
Reports arrival of copies of M&F.
21. Dunayevskaya letter to Andy Phillips, Raymond Inghram and Robert Ellery, written Dec. 23, 1957.
On the need for personal struggle with a theoretic problem.
20. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol and Olga Domanski, written Dec. 9, 1957.
On the contrast between Dunayevskayas Introduction and Marcuses Preface.
19. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Dec. 5, 1957.
On educationals to be held on M&F.
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Nov. 24, 1957.
on Milovan Djilas book, The New Class.
17. Dunayevskaya to Dear Friends, written Oct. 16, 1957.
Final proofs of the book and Index sent in. Dunayevskaya reports adding footnotes on Mao Tse-tung and Milovan Djilas; quotes new final paragraph added to Chapter 16 on Little Rock, Arkansas, school desegregation battle.
16. Joseph Buttinger to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 4, 1957.
On Marcuses Preface; finds it a confirmation of the views you developed. In this same week, Dunayevskaya, presented her views on The American Roots of Marxism in the World Today and Our Development. She projected that Marxism and Freedom will become the polarizing force for the new movement, Marxist-Humanism. See #2596 for the text of this document.
15. Dunayevskaya letter to Joseph Buttinger, written Aug. 10, 1957.
On her disagreement with the Preface by Marcuse.
14. Dunayevskaya letter to Saul Blackman, written July 26, 1957.
On the ramifications of the publication of M&F for organization; projects concept that organization of thought determines organizational life. Included here also is Dunayevskayas letter to Blackman written Aug. 5, 1957, which continues this discussion.
13. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski and Andy Phillips, written July 22 (?), 1957.
Handwritten note accompanying copy of Marcuses Preface; Dunayevskaya says Marcuse sums up all the objections.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Marcuse, written July 22, 1957.
Responds to Marcuses Preface to M&F.
11. Dunayevskaya to Olga Domanski, written June 23, 1957.
On Maos speech On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People; on Hegels discussion of Spirit in Self-Estrangement as illuminating Maos direction. During this period, Dunayevskaya composed footnotes on Mao which were later added to the galley proofs of M&F.
10. Dunayevskaya. to Marcuse, written June 11, 1957.
Summarizes the main points of M&F in response to Marcuses request.
9. Dunayevskaya to Dear Friends, written June 8, 1957.
On promoting the new book; sums up its unusual character in discussion of Chapter 11, on the relationship of spontaneous self-organization to the so-called vanguard party.
8. Marcuse to Dunayevskaya, written June 7, 1957.
Asks for a recapitulation of the gist of the book to assist him in writing the Preface to the book.
7. Dunayevskaya, to Dear Friends, written June 6, 1957.
The mss. of M&F has just been sent to the publisher; calls attention to some unique contributions we are making with the book.
6. Dunayevskaya to Saul Blackman, written May 15(?), 1957.
Reports final editing of M&F has been completed.
5. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written May 13, 1957.
Sends her Introduction to M&F, and gives the two quotes — from Marx and Hegel — which will appear on the frontispiece.
4. The New Stage,
notes for a presentation by Dunayevskaya, given May 5, 1957. On the book, current world events, and the tasks of the organization.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written April 28, 1957.
Reports signing of contract to publish M&F; comments on the importance of a Preface by Marcuse.
2. Arthur Kunkin letter to Dunayevskaya, written April 6, 1957.
On his assignment to write a footnote on the St. Louis Hegelian. Sends draft of lengthy footnote.
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Arthur Kunkin, written Feb. 14, 1957.
Responds to Kunkins objections to publishing a critical Preface by Marcuse in M&F.
E. Correspondence and Notes on the Writing of Marxism and Freedom February 1957 – December 1957
33. Dunayevskaya letter to Alexander Ehrlich, written Dec. 26, 1956.
Responds to Ehrlichs comments on the section on the Russian economy; on the raison d’être for M&F.
32. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol, written Dec. 26, 1956.
Reports on receiving letter from E.H. Carr, praising her view of Lenins Philosophic Notebooks.
31. Alexander Ehrlich letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 24, 1956.
Detailed comments on the draft chapters of M&F on Russian state-capitalism vs. workers revolt. For a letter from E.H. Carr on draft chapters of M&F, written Dec. 21, 1956, see #2593.
30. Olga Domanski letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 7, 1956.
Comments on the mss. chapters of M&F; on the Absolute Idea and Automation as the two axes for the book.
29. Dunayevskaya letter to John Dwyer, written Nov. 27, 1956.
Describes her meeting with Marcuse on M&F and his critique of the book.
28. Dunayevskaya letter to members of News and Letters Committees, written Nov. 20, 1956.
Reports that the book is finished!; relates the 1953 East German workers revolt to the ongoing Hungarian Revolution.
27. Dunayevskaya letter to Marcuse, written Nov. 6, 1956.
During last days of work on the mss. of M&F, sets date for meeting with Marcuse on the book as a whole.
26. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written Nov. 2, 1956.
On the concept of stratification of the working class in Lenin and in Marx; includes an extract from Marxs speech to 1871 London conference of the International Workingmens Association -translated by Dunayevskaya — on the trade unions as an aristocratic minority. This discussion appears in Chapter 11 of M&F.
25. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written Oct. 25, 1956.
On Domanskis assignment to write an article for News & Letters on stratification of workers as political-theoretical analysis. Also included is Domanskis response, written to Saul Blackman about Oct. 30, 1956.
24. Marcuse letter to Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 23, 1956.
On Dunayevskayas chapter on Capital, Vols. II and III.
23. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol, written Oct. 20, 1956.
On the relationship between where Marx stopped in his Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic, and where Dunayevskayas Letter of May 20, 1953 — on Hegels Philosophy of Mind — begins.
22. Dunayevskaya letter to members of News and Letters Committees, written Oct. 18, 1956.
On her new translation of Private Property and Communism and Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic from Marxs Early Essays; contrasts her translation to that of Grace Lee (Boggs).
21. Dunayevskaya letter to Saul Blackman, written Oct. 10, 1956.
Sends three chapters on Stalinist Russia, which grew from its original draft of one chapter. Includes also a Postscript (written Oct. 14, 1956), on proving the Absolute Idea vs. creating a dialectic which thereby proves the Absolute Idea. Contrasts her view to that of both C.L.R. James and Marcuse.
20. Marcuse letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 21, 1956.
Comments on draft chapters of M&F on Marxs early essays, on the Second International; on Russian state-capitalism.
19. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, Andy Phillips and Louise Inghram, written Sept. 14, 1956.
On the meaning of the Absolute Idea for organization today.
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Marcuse, written Sept. 6, 1956.
On Marcuses Eros and Civilization; on her progress on M&F.
17. Dunayevskaya letter to Saul Blackman, written Aug. 23, 1956.
On last day of uninterrupted work on the book; reports that first draft is entirely finished.
16. Dunayevskaya letter to Saul Blackman, written Aug. 6, 1956.
Encloses chapter just completed on the Organizational Interlude of the Second International; describes her daily work schedule. Included with this letter is an unfinished letter to Olga Domanski, written Aug. 4, 1956, on Chapter 1 as the key to the book, and to the problems of the age. Discusses her process of thinking about the Second International. The letter to Domanski was enclosed in the letter to Blackman.
15. Dunayevskaya letter to Saul Blackman, written Aug. 1, 1956.
Describes her first days of work in Pennsylvania on the book. Reports finishing the chapter on Marxs early essays; says she has changed her mind about the appendices, and will now include her translations of Marxs 1844 essays.
14. Olga Domanski letter to Dunayevskaya, written July 29, 1956.
Extensive commentary on Chapter 1 of M&F, with emphasis on Dunayevskayas view of Hegels Absolutes and our age of absolutes. Also included is Domanskis presentation on Chapter 1 to West Virginia local of News and Letters Committees, given June, 1956.
13. Resident Editorial Board (REB) minutes of July 17, 1956 (excerpts).
Dunayevskaya asks REB to assign her to work uninterruptedly on the book for five or six weeks.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Meyer Schapiro, written June 20, 1956.
Re-states the aim of M&F; asks for a loan to continue her writing work. During this period Dunayevskaya was preparing for the first Convention of News and Letters Committees. For documents from that Convention which relate to her work on M&F, see #2554-2592.
11. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written May 18, 1956.
Reports completion of what became Chapter 1 of M&F, on The French Revolution and Classical German Philosophy. Discusses divergent views of C.L.R. James and Dunayevskaya on Hegelian dialectics; on the dialectic as the method of the Absolute.
10. Meyer Schapiro letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 13, 1956.
A critique of Dunayevskayas first outline of M&F.
9. Dunayevskaya letter to Marcuse, written May 3, 1956.
Reports beginning work on the chapter on Hegel which became Chapter 1 of M&F.