Raya Dunayevskaya

Raya Dunayevskaya was the founder of Marxist Humanism in the United States and the author of the “trilogy of revolution”: Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 until Today; Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao; and Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution. These works represent the development of her 1953 breakthrough on Hegel’s Absolute Idea, when she saw within the Absolute Idea a movement from practice as a well as a movement from theory. She perceived this unity as a vision of a new human society.

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Raya Dunayevskaya

June 1, 2023 Length: 27 words

Chapters on Mao From “Marxism & Freedom” Now in Chinese

Summary: Crucial chapters of Mao’s China that was kept out of the Chinese edition of Dunayevskaya’s “Marxism and Freedom” have now appeared online in Chinese translation – Editors

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Raya Dunayevskaya

August 13, 2019 Length: 53 words

Luxemburg’s Theory of Capital Accumulation. How It Differed with Marx and Lenin

Summary: This article was first published in English in April 1946 in New International and that version can be accessed here:  http://rayadunayevskaya.org/ArchivePDFs/436.pdf  We are publishing the n…

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Raya Dunayevskaya

April 13, 2017 Length: 2269 words

Philosophy, “Life-Style” and U.S. Workers

Summary — Raya Dunayevskaya, in 1970, critiques the illusions of the counter-cultural “Woodstock nation,” and calls for a coalescence of the objective and subjective forces needed for social revoluti…

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Raya Dunayevskaya

December 15, 2016 Length: 28 words

The 1998 Chinese translation of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Marxism and Freedom

Summary: The 1998 Chinese translation of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Marxism and Freedom (Shenyang: Liaoning Education Press), with a preface by the renowned Marxist humanist philosopher Wang Ruoshui, is now…

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Raya Dunayevskaya

November 15, 2016 Length: 245 words

French reprint of Dunayevskaya, Marxisme et Liberte

Summary: French reprint of Dunayevskaya, Marxisme et Liberte

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Raya Dunayevskaya

October 25, 2015

The Shock of Recognition and the Philosophic Ambivalence of Lenin

Summary: This article was translated into Persian by Ali Kiani and published in Anjoman Azadi in 1991.   The English original appeared in Telos in 1970 — Editors

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Raya Dunayevskaya

October 25, 2015 Length: 26 words

The Shock of Recognition and the Philosophic Ambivalence of Lenin

Summary: This article was translated into Persian by Ali Kiani and published in Anjoman Azadi in 1991.  The English original appeared in Telos in 1970 — Editors

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Raya Dunayevskaya

November 26, 2014

Bureaucratie et capitalisme d’État

Summary: This article was republished by Michel Peyret in L’Independant (France). Originally published in Arguments No. 17 (1960). The English version, “State Capitalistm and the Bureaucrats,” also pu…

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Raya Dunayevskaya

December 9, 2013 Length: 86 words

Marx’s Capital and Today’s Global Crisis

We repost here the hard-to-find 1978 pamphlet by Raya Dunayevskaya, which has been uploaded onto the Internet by unknown parties.  We call attention to the fact that it includes three items: (1) main…

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Books written by this author

Raya Dunayevskaya,
Erich Fromm,
Herbert Marcuse

The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory

Raya Dunayevskaya

Die Macht der Negativität: Schriften zur Philosophie der Revolution

Raya Dunayevskaya

Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao

Raya Dunayevskaya

The Power of Negativity

Raya Dunayevskaya

Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today

Raya Dunayevskaya

Women’s Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future

Raya Dunayevskaya

The Marxist-Humanist Theory of State-Capitalism

Raya Dunayevskaya

Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution