Continuing on Sunday, April 18, 2021 6-8:00 PM, Los Angeles Time

This session will take up chapter 9, “Marx Discovers a New Continent of Thought and of Revolution” from Raya Dunayevskaya’s classic book, “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution.” We will be discussing the last sections of the chapter, “Prometheus Bound, 1841-43” and “Prometheus Unbound, 1844-48” (pp. 122-132). These pages take up the quest for freedom, what it means to be a “practicing revolutionary philosopher,” Marx’s “recreation of the Hegelian dialectic,” and his 1844 Humanist Essays as a “breaking point” that defined the rest of his life.

With introductory remarks by Andres Miguel Marmol, longtime Chicanx, community, and Marxist activist

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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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