Continuing on Sunday, June 6, 2021 6-8:00 PM, Los Angeles Time

This session will take up chapter 10, “A Decade of Historic Transformation: From the ‘Grundrisse’ to ‘Capital’,” from Raya Dunayevskaya’s classic book, “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution.“We will be discussing her Marxist-Humanist interpretation of these core works in Marx’s critique of political economy, with special emphasis on his analysis of Asian societies, of communism, and of the French edition of “Capital.”

With introductory remarks by Kris Gardner, organizer at the International Marxist-Humanist Organization and creative designer

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About the series:

We began meeting biweekly in fall 2020 to read Marxist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya’s classic book, “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution.”  We are now continuing this series.

Book can be accessed here: https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Raya-Dunayevskaya-Rosa-Luxemburg-Womens-Liberation-and-Marxs-Philosophy-of-Revolution.pdf

Our discussions during the reading group have been covering topics like:

• Race, class, gender, and revolution
• Dialectics as philosophy and as principle of organization
• The relationship of spontaneity to revolutionary organization
• War, imperialism, and capitalism
• Capital accumulation and imperialism
• Nationalism vs. national liberation and anti-colonialism
• Women and revolution
• Feminism, class struggle, and revolution
• Black feminism
• Black masses as vanguard in the U.S.
• Rosa Luxemburg vs. V.I. Lenin on revolutionary democracy
• Karl Marx’s concept of “revolution in permanence” and Trotsky’s of “permanent revolution”
• From Marx’s “Grundrisse” to “Capital”
• Marx’s concept of the new society: “Critique of the Gotha Programme”
• Marx’s late writings on non-Western and Indigenous societies and gender
• Falling rate of profit and economic crises

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