Continuing on Sunday, February 21, 2021 6-8:00 PM, Los Angeles Time

This session will take up the last chapter in the second section, on women and revolution, of “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution” by Raya Dunayevskaya. We will be discussing Ch. 8, “The Task That Remains To Be Done: The Unique and Unfinished Contributions of Today’s Women’s Liberation Movement,” pp. 99-112. This chapter covers the emergence and radicalization of the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, especially in terms of race and revolution, an apt topic for this year’s BLACK HISTORY MONTH. It also takes up the limitations of male revolutionaries when confronted with the issues surrounding women’s liberation, from Frederick Engels to the New Left and Black liberation movements of the 1960s.

With introductory remarks by Damian Algabre

Damian Algabre is a Los Angeles resident who writes on capitalism, racism, queer culture, and Marxism.

 

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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 found 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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