Continuing on Sunday, July 25, 2021 6-8:00 PM, Los Angeles Time

This July 25 discussion will complete our months-long reading of Raya Dunayevskaya’s classic book, “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution.” This session will take up chapter 12, “The Last Writings of Marx Point a Trail the 1980s” (pp. 175-97), including differences over gender with Engels made evident by Marx’s “Ethnological Notebooks,” Marx’s increasing preoccupation with societies outside Western Europe as loci of revolution, and the need for a humanist vision of revolution.

With introductory remarks by Heather A. Brown, author of “Marx on Gender and the Family” and Kevin B. Anderson, author of “Marx at the Margins”

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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 at the end this series, but newcomers are always welcome as each session is self-contained.

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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