·tier latest \<t()lfc, exhaustively researchoid, at on_e and the same. time!reveais a startling'feminist ·. ·· · dlnienslon··of the revolutionary .tliearetidan Ros;i' Lilxembli'rg and diSCloses new moments in the last ileadll! of Kai1 M;uii's life. Disputing . those who characteriZe Marx's last ·decade as " "slow,death,"'Ms. DtiilaYII!vskaya contends that he developed silme of his most profoundly original ideas in. that period, including his analyses of the· roles of women and of the peasantry as. seen In his recently transcribed EIIIIIOiopal Noleba ob. Also rejecting those who view MaJX and Engels a5 "one," Ms. , Dtinayevskaya reveals sharp differences between them and presents a riew .interpretation of all post·MaJX Marxists - beginning with Engels.

Ms. Dtinayevskaya's writing$ have been . extensively published at home and abroad:

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,. The Yug<islav dissident journal Praxis . . published her ch;ipter on· ''The Philosophic · ArilbMience of Lenin" prior to its

publication in Phllosopliy and Revolution, as did".Telos in the U.S. and Aut Aut in Italy. .. . .. .

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was, included .. in :the l11ter:n.ational · Symposium,SodallstcH&ima!1fS!n; edited by Erich J'roriim?Whlle' the Newsletter of the lntermtloliaJ;SiK:Ielf for the.sodology of Knowledge/: oidited by Kurt Wolff, ·included her "In Memoriam" to Herbert Marcuse in a special issue.dedicatea to his memory. Her speech "Hegel's Absolute Idea as New Beginning", prtisented to the Hegel Society of America, of which she is a charter member,,is inclu.ded in the Humanities Press 1980 edition of Art and Logic In Hegel's ·Philosophy.

EvER SINCE her break with Trotsky, whom she had served as Russian Secretary in 1937-38 during his exile in •Mexico, her analysis of Russia as a state-capitalist sodety has attracted worldwide attention. Her articles in The American Economic Review (September 1944) sparked an international theoretical debate that continued for over a year and reached the front page of the New York Tlmes. In 1977 Studies in Comparative Communism printed her latest critical study of "Leon Trotsky as Man and as Theoretidan."

Her activity as teacher ranges from a series of l=ix seminars she presented on "Women as Thinkers and Revolutionaries," which she prepared for International Women's Year in 1975 for the University of Michigan-Wayne State University Courses. in Adult Education; to her work as Visiting Scholar at Washington . University in St. Louis; -to her inclusion in Bertell Oilman's recent Studies in Socialist Pedagogy.

Her long participation in . the. Black freedom movement ranges fro"' the,pvii'Rig~ts strugg)es and the writing of ~eri~'.Clvlllution on Tnal, Black Mas~

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AlTHOUGH HER insistence on freedom for women long predates the beginnings of today's Women's Liberation Movement, Ms. Dunayevskaya considers the latter to have· made unique contributions. She has been the featured speaker at a multitude of spedal women's programs - from Women's Week at UCLA to the Women's Festival of San Diego's Center for Women's Studies; from the International Women's Day Celebration at Wayne State University to the Berkeley Women's Center; as well as at women's groups at Hunter College, N.Y., Oberlin in Ohio, University of Illinois at Urbana and Frostburg, Md.

Ms. Dunayevskaya is the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S. The first to develop the theory of state-capitalism based on original Russian sources, which marked her break from Trotsky at the outset of World War II, she then worked out the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism ·as rooted both in the Hegelian-Marxi2n dialectic and in the actual movement from practice over the last three decades. The documents, covering a 40-year period, that embody her development of the inseparability of philosophy and revolution as the dialectics of liberation are on deposit and recorded on microfilm in the Wayne State University Labor History Archives under the title: "The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection -Marxist-Humanism in the U.S., 1940 to Today." I •

THE MAJOR WORKS of Ms. Dunayevskaya have been translated into German, French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish, and chapters have been circulated underground in Chinese, Polish, Russian and Farsi. So great was the interest in her latest work when it was first projected, that Herbert Marcuse, who had written the Preface to her first major theoretical work, ~JXism and Freedom, urged her, in their last conversation before his death, to curtail her many activities in order to complete the manuscript of Rosa

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revolutionary dialectic ... [Sh.eJ-~~~~-~h;·i;~~-i~·n;~ali·~; dialectic at work in the revolts against the communist regimes of East German~·. Hungary and Poland."

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"II is Ounayevskaya's thesis that since the de:Hh of lenin there has been a theoretical void at the center of the lefl wing liberation movements. Where theories have been propounded people have been lured by the seductive but deadly siren voices of Maoism and Existentialism. This theorelical void may be overcome, Dunayevskaya argues, by a reappropriation of the Hegelian dimensions of Marxism."

-Raymond Plant, The Owl of Minerva

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Dear Friendsa

The tour, which has been the focus of' our work bep,inning ri~ht at the Convention itself, rs-now the Onpoing Tour,· It began in West Virp.inia last week, where Marxist-Humanism 198.3 made new links with where it was "born" -- in th!3 sense that it was during 1949-SO, when Raya was active with the General Miners Strike at the same time that she was enp.aeinp. in the most profound philosophic correspondence around Lenin's ?hilosophic Notebooks, that "State­Cap! tali am and Marxism" became transformed into r.iarxism and Freedom, Andy's report accompanies this letter and the REB m~nutes, where this first lecture of' the whole tour was discussed in terms of the New rlelations that we are looking for as we prepare, with the tour, for the actual Constitutional Convention over Labor Day,

Tomorrow, International Women's Day, will take the tour to Canada-- and then back to Michigan, By the end of the week Raya will be headed for ~~ and the East Coast tour, where the N.Y. comrades are working hard at publicity and we have just heard from Kevin that Anne's article on Raya's works has been printed in Womanews (eire, 20,000) together with .listings of all four NY lectures. It is just reaching newSa.nds

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Just as it was the Black dimension that is proving to b~ so important in the criss-crossing of the various stops on .the lecture tour, · · .·· · will see from the REB minutest and just as it will .be

· at focus in the Lead-Editorial on Youth -- for just as beginnings of any public education in this land

aur1n~ Re~olns·trllCtion, so now it is the Black dimension that puts on precisely what Reagan's retrogressionism means1 · · · the recent many new references we have found to Raya's

of journals and books (from "Marx•s·Das Kapital to Maruice Meissner 1 s recent Marxism, Maoism and t is the one that comes from Harlem. that Is the most

has just found that Raya's ~o Worlds on Malcolm X is included in the selected bibliography of a special. X of a new Black cultural called Stepping- ·

Now we here at the Center are off to the r;,ichigan part ot Tourl You will get a tull report of· that next week,

Yours, Olga

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Deoi' Friends: .. ·' :. :

. .Rnyo 's first lecture' nf her tour, held .llPrch' 2 at· Wes't Virginia University, cctf be collect nn unqunllf1ed' success; Some 150 neon'le <>'t't€uided, includ\ng·a·· mix . ·. of s.~).ldents ond townsneo.,le 1 _Block ond wtiih', ·an~ ab6llt evenly-dlvt'ded amt1ng· .men·· end women. Rnya 1s nresentntlon'' titled "Clvll Rights ond the> Philosonhy of Freedom", was .f.ofld~ed by 'sustained a.;plcuse, cl'etirly an ·1ndlcatl'on of the rinoreclatlon felt f9.r th·a thc;m<~ht;,-nrovoklng 'ond challengln~ ldeds :;resent'ed. Royo •s lectare wove to-

' 11ether nn exciting hlstorlc taoe~try·hil!liH!!htlng the origins of th:e··state l't'self I: ln the L're-Clvll Wor oerlod; Marx, Lincoln; John ·sfowrt on~ the Black"dl'mensl'on; ·

Sojourner Truth, Frederick Dougla~ and the Seneca Falls conference; Rosa Luxemburg ond the women's dlmenstdn then and new; end our own origins ln the 1949-50 miners' strike, especially there ln the Morgantown area, esnc~•.nlly ln rP.lation to miners·, their wives on~ children, and especially ln the imnact of thnt exoerience on the transformation of Marxism ond the Theory of State-Canitallsm into ~ism and Free-.!!EJ!!, l.e., the foundh~ of Morxlst-Humonism. It was o view of history in the CMking, not ns o review of things nest, but of o nerspeetive of the future in the oresent, the first on this tour.

hnother, ond ~erhops more im~ortont, indication of her 1m­poet (even beyond the sustained opnlause) 1 wos evidenced by the 30 people who at­tended the reception held for Rayo follow!~~ her speech. There she both inscribed books thot were bought ond talked with mony students who eegerly lined uo to have

.a few words with her, including several Iranians and o South African women sturlent, At the reception both Raya and Andy got the names and addresses of several students ond wor.kers who were anxious to corry on " diologue on Morxlst-Humonlsm on o con-', tinuing bosls,

Sponsors of Roya 1o lecture, the Student Festival Forum, sllid that R,oya 's rece?tlon by fllr attracted more peonle then ony other soeaker they had in-

. vi ted .,this semester, Desntlle several important missed assignments due to a con:bllite chiln.~e ln Forum staffing ond resoonsibilitles which occurred during the we!!k of

,_R£yo •s· lecture, much had been done to publicize the speech: sendln~ out press re­le_ilses, .!'llt!cing about 25 rndlo soots on three llrea stations; nuttin!; un dozebs of lorge posters on ell comnus bulletin boards; centrally positioning Rays's program in iln attractive activities dlsolay cose in the student center building; notifying

.a number of professors they felt would want to announce Rays's lecture to their stu­dents; scheduling o rodio interview ond o nress conference; ond arranging for pub­licity "in the student noper before and after the event.

' A total of $145 in literature . wos .. sold, including 12 books, two subs to N&L an~ $20 in other literature soles, As n result of. Roya 1s lecture, the University bookstore ordered ten books from Humani­ties Preu-- 5 RLWLI<M, 3 P&R, 2 M&F-- and !'Ut up an attractive disrolay feqturlng the works in the bookstore, Several of these were sold, becouse oll of "our" books sold at a table ln the lecture boll were imorlnted with the N&L office address, anrl Rays

. 'noticed that several books she outograohed did not have this lmnrlnt. . . . An unexpected

development occurred when I first went to w,v.,, to halo with lecture publicity ar­r~~ementa and was asked by the Forum students to introduce RDya, They sold there

·. •.were three professors under consideration to give the introduction, but felt. thot both beaeuse of my WVU alumnus status and the fact of my long association with Rays, r:·c!:>uld ~i:ve a better introduction then Dnyone else, The opportunity was rewording o_n, two levels! 1)· the !'rivit'oe of introducing Roya to the audience, and 2) b~ing on IU)ubllc platform ot the university where I had been informed in· no uncertain

.. terms· when I want to school there that my presence was not ot all appreciated on campus-- in ony cepocityl · · But per hops the moat important dave lopmsnt ocurred with the re-estebliahins of relotlona with a former miner who hod been active with. Ul

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during the 1949-SO·atrlke ~nd later during the 1954 seniority strike• He-attended Roya'a lecture; brought along a well-worn cooy of !!!!!. for Rayo to .!lutogr,aplll ,pur·.: chased ell the literature we ha~; contDbuted $100 and sold he'd glve more regu• larly;·l.ndl.coted he-would write 'for~~ and, l.s a111<ious for hl.s daughter·, specl.ol­izl.ng- in phl.losophy end attendi~ another univers-ity,: to contact Raya; and !lxnres-sed eogernes's 'in· pursul.l\~ futther communications. . • . .

· ·: . This· same kind of eage_pie:ss, though on a different level,· hatl ·been expressed by all of those .jlhQae' n~!"ea- .o.nd ... addresses were obtai net!, It·. is clear that the W, VA, lecture- surpas,s!ld. il U exp~c';- , toi:.toris, -in both re-est·ol>l1shing old contacts and creot lng new bc!!,J.nni_)'ISS fqf ~l'e dellelopment· of new relations with.others. '· .. :":-- .. · .·."~

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i•iorgantown, W, Va. -- Raya Dunayevskaya will be speaking

at West Virginia University on March 2 at 8:00 p.m. in the Gold

Ballroom of' the l~ountainlair. The University's Forum Festival

Committee is sponsoring Dunayevskaya.

Dunayevskaya, the f'ounder of' Marxist-Humanism in the

United States, is probably best known as a philosopher, · · , .•'·

political analyst and women's liberationist.

Born in Russia but brought to the U.S. as a child·, in .. · '

'""(;~·~···•·'"··: .. ·19:.}~1! she became R'~ssian secretary to Leon Trotsky. in exile in ~'·~'····-''''-· -.:;,·\ ... , "''"'''-c····"··i'M~xico. This time marked the turbulent period of' the Moscciw

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·Trials and the Dewey Commission of' Inquiry into the charges ·

.niade against Trotsky,

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II, she became the f'irst to develop the theory of' stat~-capi•aq_,~D!;l~i;;

.pased on her original Russian sources.

,.During the historic 1949-50 miners' strike, Dunayev~kaya ·· ·

, sp~nt some time with miners and their wives in the Morgant_6\vn

· •area. She considers this to be among the most important ·

exp'eriencos .in her philosophical dovelopmetit.

TJ:Ie author of' many books and essays, Dunayevskaya' s · ·

.. , .writings .have boon extensively published at home and abroa~ .• ·- · ::·.:Oi'::Sc\ ,,. , .. . .

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~rx~ Philosophy of Revolution, reveals the unique but unfinished

contributions of today's Women's Liberation Movement,

Tickets for Dunayevskaya' s presentation will oe available

at the Mountainlair ticket office. Admission is free for

students, non-students, $1.50.

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TROTSKY AIDE MAKES POINT - Raya Dunayevskaya will be spea!<!ng today at 8 ·p.m. In the Lair Gold Ballroom. Dunayevskaya was a secretary to Leon Trotsky while he was In exile In Mexico. She Is also a political analyst, author and women's llberatlonlst.

Tickets for the presentation are available at the Lair ncket Olflce. Admission Is free for students and $1.50 for non-students,

The speech Is beln& sponsored by Student Administration's Forum Festival Committee.

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world in which sor;;aj finlli,: . frees itself of its ft• m ••*"• . alienation and OjljN • c ; said

Raya Dunaycvskaya. . . · •. Dunayevskaya, a ... rev­

nlutionary -activisl, pllilaspher . and author, was the Forum Festival speaker WeMesdey ellening in the.MOQ1ill!jn!a!F. i She biSes her phiJosophy. on. ~!itings II{ Marx and defines this new pbik>sophy that sbe bas. ei~pounded UpOn for more Ibm 40 ~~ - . -

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Sbe supporis · · " true new ham•rrimi in which human life is •'tiUsfcirmed to a· new human JcVd.. MandsaD is the breakdown of aD the fnil"'"'•••ions (classes,· raCes· and sexes) . in the world.

There mus~ be a.new concept or· of the, new humanism in the world thciqlll and:revoluliOD;'i~'·, i~'.[ ~;",'-~t.~y ·~an¢;.ar~ . all. fC?~ in this

"We arc all world-bound on a revolution·: . . great journey," she said, refemng Dunayevskaya commented on to the ever preseilt movements by two of the movements in which peoples throughout . the. world she has been involved. trying to gain ft'cedom and, a She said .that the women's better life for themselves. ·· · •· · movement today has made some

These movements · include sucCesses, but it is sliD unfinished. workers unionizing in an attempt · "Don't act as "if you have solved to protect themselves and their anything," she said, "it has jobs, the women's liberation. basically been a careerist movemeni. the stnlgslc of blaCks movement." for less discrimination ·and· the · And with respect to the youth youth movement. movement, she said that students

Dunayevskaya has been· in- today are not as apathetic as most volved in all these movementS for say they are. the past"40 year$. · ·. · · · . "They are not just out to drink

-She was· in West Virginia in and have a good time," she said. ' 1949 . and, 1950 when the coal "Students today are involved in

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miners held a strike to protcs(ncw environmental and anti-nuclear

~uto. mation·,.·in.Mo. ·ntg.·o·m· ery. .:; ~.·.· .. • ·. inov .. ~m~n~. The~ arc worried and u\ 1955, fqr the bus boycou·and at arc takmg a different form of the 1963. Univcisity or ailirot'itia '· protest. at Berkley Free PrC5S Movement; ·. ·.' ... There is a great dbsatisiaction

· which ·w.s.the bCgiimini or'ihc . among" the students and no one youth movement. . . can tell when it will break out.

· :ShC:said;_theSe--uiovenu!nts:are ·.;Thc:f'·just have to find out what alllinkedli<causcjheyarc:aJfpai't''iihey wantrro·m life and what is_

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Dunayevskaya said she was born during a time of protest bccaU!.e she was born in Russia, at the time of the Russian Revolution. She later went on to become the personal secretary of Leon Trotsky while he was exiled in Mexic_o from 1937to 1938.

She said she broke her political lies with Trotsky ~'when he- still sup)iOrtcd · ilie SoViet- Uniorr after· · Stalin made bis secret Non­Aggression Pact wilh Hitler."

Since thar time she has travclled the world over in search of movements and causes and places to profess her philosphy. '

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I~t~~\w.t!onal Wp_;_.;n's !;loy ~~ihhe MoJ:"x CCI)~CMry co,!.ncide.d. fo~ 11s::thtil: year:. ln ~he most z:evolu.t\ol)ory .w.oy wlth R!!;yp,~s .lecture• tQUr·.in Mlc'htgon onci.Ontar.fo.• For•.· -three consecutive days~ and' In front of thl"ee vj!r,y different· audiences; we.·h.nd. the. ' OP,PO.rt\ln.l.ty, t~: hear RLWLKM_prese.nted nQt only as a new book, but as a new vtew of ,h.l~.t;?ry,.!n ,whlch the, f1,1tu,r,e. :vll!lon of, p new s'octety Illuminates. bqth;J>Il'llt·,l>n'd.·pte-· Bllnt •. T,he ~~ree le.ptuz:es.eoch·drE1W,l<~rge.<~nd appreclaj:ive audiences, w!t\l:f:!ood·<.Ht" erorure. Sl!lea llnd sertQUs. d!scusstOJ\, Over ... the course 'of., the· to\lr, 80~::.$196·\was'' sold,,, nu,ch.of .tt ... ll\ cop!,e's ... o(.Ri.WLKM, M&F and P&R., But let me·descrtbe.tbe ·tour by:,,., taking. up_ eilch pf"i:he ...eet!nss in!liv'tdUiiiiy, s'O""'th~t. you· ot.-leo.st hove :somethil\8 of· ... ·. the. flev9r .o~ tilts most. exciting of .begtnntt>gs, . . , .· · . :· · · · ··. : ·

· . : ... ·.. ,: · . :· · · · . .'On. Internat-!ond Women·'.s ·.DJ.lY.· we· jo\lr• • ne_y~d .. oc;-oss, the. bord~J"~.):o Windsor for Royo's lect11re ct·.·the u .• of·.Wlndsor.;··sopnsored: by the Spct'ot: Sctenc.e :students: ·al\d .the History ,and .P'o.li.tlc ol Sc4ence: :depar~1!11lnti's'" An · Intensive oertod of work by the women's l!berotton conrnlttee; and by Eugene'.'<Jnd .. LI:lti ·~/l;~ n~f'~ed, ta; ·.o~fset o lock ·Of oubl!ct ty that included the story on Royo betng cut frow tb.c. compJJ.s par,,er ,by .. the e,d!tcr . .-. IJ.esn!te the fact. that .nearly ol:l c~:~me frt>m our·.· llteroturiJ .. tq)>le. or worp~pf-mouth,: 80 studert:.s: ond .foc\lltyi ot.tended .,<a.'. IUJmber ·wht'ch· stunf~E1d t)le,.org'\llol.z_ers).;.. N, or did .the tnternot·l.onol.tsm come dnly from 'being ·tti Con- ·' ll!ili'; the illl.dle.~ lncludep.sever<ll East As.ton•.os.l!udent'll> 'tWo ·antlirooology' . .,t<of'essors: from Indio,-, el¥1 e.tgbt llli\Ck stud.e,nts from the West •·Iildtes, Africa Dnd North·:·llmert''CD,.: wtth-.womcn,.~l) ,t.l}e ·mD!Qr!ty •.. , ·; .... , · 1""·;

·: :' ,.,. . ·. ·.' ·" · Roy0.~s presentation began by· j.tlmlllt>g up•the· f"ocl:'' that'::.:::· thousands of. w.o~n '.s l.tlle,l"otton·l;&ts .. hod ··been:moi!CI)tng 'for o week Dcross·. C:anoC!s ,, ~li,th• ·' asklna. the QI!CB.t,lon :of •why.; .then·,, tt· hod. t<~ken -,the ·wbo.te· .of t'he·• 20th· cerituJ:¥-<'to•"J!et• ,,:

.·clil's "ope st.nglra r!IPY. rracogntze.d .. for, women,; w.hen• women'!SJatrugg1es' cover. mtlient·M Jle•:r' wet;e, thlln tP.kep, 011, o. :-royage. of Al!WoveJ7;.from the mome'l\~: tn 1·843 when· Flora-: Trbtal\' !': wa_a .. ~al.l:lng !for o ''Unlotll-~W·ieJ:"e!' a)ld Kart:- Marx wos ·estabHshlt>g o '.'~l';:~IM'ntaml ·' l ;, •

·on th~. bep~s. OO.tll of, ftndlng o, new, S11bject .tn .LaboJ:".1. and. of; ftndtng. o new concept: Qf .. ; Mon/Wo~~ as the test of oll society. There Is no way thts letter can follow the path

. o~ · tb.at. lec~yre,. !Nt l!ven ~:o· one .wllo has r!"sd. the ·book .ond:·.heard..tt pre~entl!d· .before.;-.; III!JC:\1- was new.•.·rhe-J1lDck DiJIIE!ns-ton in·rev0 lutt.on,.ln.women's·· Hberatlon·, .. from:~.four-~ ·ner,.Tr~~th: o.s,phtlosc;>pller. t\lrough Luxembllrg ·and·. Noll'lbtn, to ·todoy.'s .moverneM ,, camel .. , O\lt' most ilharP.ly, .os .dld ,t,l)e WilY 1\aya. presel)te4 .RL •a 11udden. recollecb!on.·.of :Penthe·,•·

. stlea> :ln th!I"COJitext ;ol; Hege,l.'s decloratton ·for on !IIt,~dl.vtdu(IUam.·th(lt':letsr·nothing.' '·lnterfeJ:"e wtth tta 'un1verssll-sm". We never .. were. aUo.,jj,d ,to. fo~:get:.elther'>.the,world .• :

·,&C!!Pii! ,of the WLM1.•froai Dlng Ltng to Ironton women, ·or the unfinished not11re of the : ;:!llli?~8,11!Cnt -I) a i 011!j: ll~ ~orx.' s .net\'. ,con~ tne.l\t .of .,tho~Jght ol)cl ;revoL11t lon ;re1110~ns separate:: · ,:.•f_oz:,~.m.,~t-! ·~·.; · .. ·~.''; rf •'!, . ." •l(,.•.i:t .',·• ," ·j' • '·' 'I'' '·I\' ;'o! ·',,.1',1'!; '., :-. ~1~' ·'/'o ·;,,

. , ' ..... Some:~'l.O ~n.lU.· sold t~lirl!, ll&··"!ell .as ,tl)e dlscuaslqn~·>Wlth:severah:stu.dellts' .gove us.th~·~de~;~ to·ii)Vite them to:the nex~ ~~!lins·of the De~rott:·locol,~wherevOtga.

· ,wl.ll,..~e, contrl;lstl~;~g .. Reagan's retrogress ton 1 n llducot,tonrw.tth· Marx's ... revo-1\ltlonory,' ;, : ':·. ,C(li\Cept ·of ed~~eetton, we wtll also be working wtth on onthropalogy professo:r.·.olnter•,,;'''

. ested.-tn}!orx'a yJ~w of .. the Third World, w.ith·"an eye tQ~;~ard<is revt~w of::RLWLKM for ~ _·conDdlnn journal. · ... ·i ..• ;.: .-:! :: , : . ,. · The very next· day )«11·went out to Oakland University in Bllhllrben

· ·R.ochester, for the lect11re on ''Marx ond the ltberotton of women". It was strtklt>g ·. t~.' a~e, how .so IIIIC\1 of., the. cont11nt of .th& lec):.~re·.!Ja&i stmtlar to.lol.hllt· hacl• bl$n·'g1Veli'. ~· 'lil Windsor, ancl Yilt, how. differently. lt waa.,.preal!nted•.dle:.:e,.we. begon· wlth!.llegiBl,'•·• ., '.'

. , ·"blitl\tlme of·,llla!:ory.'\·.yet liMK!dla~ely.AV bow.·l~· cou·Jd .be:·ao.,tong..sep41roted/ifioas '" , ... :,· ... ;.w·ilmlu'l!.s. ltbe,ratlon.,, JJI!en lBJt.wu not only. the year .of·lle&e.l·'••·deoth 1 but'tl\«;ry'ear: ····

,·· ·of·'the: emergence of·. the, Black psmenslon, · Yet· 1:50· years. la~er· onl¥ RLWLKM· seell' 'it· ·· ·. · · ··~ ol · botb. ·!!at. !turner· and Mqrlo. Sta.iarh. :lle;re•ogiiJIJ\ we •trace lll~~ek women· tn.·tM ·~ev• ·

,ci.luttonar,y movement, including Sojourner Trutlt.'l "dlacu&stons: wlth God",- b~tt·n•Vft.- ·• out'i>tde ·the .QOnat'al\t zoaturn to Marx ond women's :ltber.atlon·:ln' the: 18t.Oa and rt·8BO•~·. For the 85 who attended, the preaentatton woe a wor.ld enttnly·:naw to•theln',.!land.:

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they got a chonc~ to discuss it further dk the reception followin~ the talk. There, we really sow the African presence ot such a white comous, when you hod one of the sponsors of the lecture, o Kenyon professor, students from Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Ugokwe ·.· who. came 'in .from Chicago to hellr"Rsys on bour.~ ··There were new openings 1.!'

. women's.·U,berstlon as .well, ·both in the ·sponsorsbl!>; o)'·Wone·n's studies and the s·ale~ ... of literature wh~ch. •toto lled some $40, · · · · · · · ·

.•.• · •. · 1. • · ·!he final lecture-:wss .. held at theUn!versity · of Mlchlgan.'s:,"alternotlve" undergraduate school, Res.identll>l'•College, There t:'he class of 35: grew be)'9nd ,all expectations to ll turnout of some 120 students· for R'aya 1s sp·eech on "New.Moinents in Merx's ·Last Decode", They hod. the chance to hear Royil, present' those years 1-n thl),\'qontext of the totality of Morx·,·.begil)ning with bl·s 11.m moments. Thus the 184l·thesls wl.th Its attock on the "t¥X"Ilnny of the gods" nnd the emergence of' the question of "Interstices" is exactly whllt Marx Is stll'l' returning to In the lost' decade· ~ .. Capitol when the subject is the fetishism of commodities, Throughout the lecture0;~o~o,wosrtrncJng.Marx's path· to the crentlon and re-working of Cnpitbl--from the·. 185;7: G~undrlsse. through .the 1861-63 ·mss, to 1867 edition oitd to tlie 187-5 French edl tlon •. The. quest.! on wns nlwnys: how· to beg! n nnew7 . .

.. . • ·i . · I felt· that the question wns being posed' net ·.o.nly.·for l'.arx after •the Paris Coii111Une, but' for .Morxist-Humonlsm· after· the publicntion·ofl RLWLKM when Raya.1s concentration In this ::lecture on Marx's view· of non~copitalist .. :londs Included strikingly new formulations on the section of, Capitol MoJ'X en~~:tJ..ed ·<"So-called Priml.ti ve Accu!!Kllat !on~'. Iri sbres s 1 nil t:he' 'dIvergence between ,. Enge,l>s, "who;·saw In the· "new datil" ·of the 1880s n :reason·.to break that s<!Ction off· as.·· a 'Part ·a; ~rx had refused t.o separate It from. the GeneroL·Law ·Of .Capitalist Accum•' · ·· ·· ulotion" W.e have suffered from. post-Marx •.MarxLSII\' seeing· primitive accumulation as only at; ·the ·beginning of cop!tsllsm, .. rather than· ongoing every 'day, (Can't you ol'so ·· " heor .. echoes.·•.of, what•Engels· did with the' footnote· to the·l8,88 ·edl't!on ·of·:the Manlfe!ito • here; \l~en,.the: ne.W>stilge ofo know-ledge about tbe Third World·meant' sucih d'rff'erent .-~:·. ·. things·3:d'Morx·and to .. Enge.ls1) There wns so 'iruch new tn·Rnya•s. speech o\t 'the French' · edt tion;;o~.:Cnplta 1 1 n. the, context of the· whole· last decl!de·, .. that 'we are··~"learry just'·' beginning• to see all that Is Involved In the challenge to nost~!wrx Ma~lsts. · '

1 ! ·: •nJ ;,, ;:, .• , ,, ,· ·!·· ·· ' ·, The very·· yout~~~!audience; so~· of.whom·ore:n.,;, Involved In such activism os a committee to hslt' miHtaj:.y,researchll.!n· campils;' engaged' In an exciting discussion period .~tth •Rayo; wlth very few leaving;.bl)fore·:the1end. •Wel·so'ld $50 In lit·; lnc·ludlns four subi! to~;' and ' are ·hopeful :th!lt·.i~e w!ll.have ·a::new correspondent for the :Vouth page, Everyone will;.· be •invited>toiRily!l·!s"lecture·.Mareli 30 on·"Morx and the Blacli World", sponsored ·by ·: ... the ·Center•.for11)fr\~an nnd •Afrollmerlcan studies at U •. of- Michigan·. · ·

. 1·•j' · .. ,u;. . ... ·. . . ·while this letter has .ui!ll.ted icaelf to a :f•hrpo!nts from Raya 's tour, I did want to mention two other· Important developments we learned of by phone. From .!:!Xo wbere·Raya ls.~ow, we heard· t~IVIihe>wlll ·be·lriterviewed on the Cosper Citron show~ 'an· !mpcirtant radio program. And.<;l!ilve·rPark,cnl:led from 1iowo City, where he is doing advance work for RD.'s trip · therSJ.;to,dpore-:that' he ·hadJ &·old ne less than 13 copies of RLWLI<M h!'ii· f1r.st day ·on

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.. :P,S •. ··Neda•·just!• reported on her • trip• to LA, "which resulted ln flve plibllc· meetings · f.or IWD',I !11\.:whlch• she discussed• the .relationship of Mllrxlsm end femlnlam .in· bOth

West ond(Mrddle' East •. Mo're·than .250 people attended,: end s'lx copieB of '·tsha· new book" were:.inalutled•.-!n $90 lit 's'old.; · Several naw· contacts were mnde, lnclucli'ftS"twO women from ~ta .. who .. hDd''flrst. heard ol!· us through the Manushl ad,· The .. EM public meeting :. · hall 15·:&tei\da· attending~ ·~'ncluded several· Kurdish friends and o llvely •discussion . crou!\(lr·.MarlCirllnd ·the .• -,u~derdeveloped worl'd~ lTepal'ations for 'the CI~-!1 co~erence In · · Waal\l~bn'are vel'L on·.their·woy, Sh'eila. end Nedc as well as Gyrus and ·Audkar will· be prltaentlns'two. jptnt pf!pera," ·- Neda ''

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Ray a Dunayevskaya

Marxist-Humanist philosopher ~ author of ROSA wm!BURG, WCI!EN' S LIBERATION AND

MARX'S Pi!ILOSOPHY OF REVOttrriON

Women as Revolutionary Force .and Reason : from Rosa Luxemburg to Today's Women's

Liberation Movement

UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR University Center, Assumption Lounge Sponaol'tlli by the Sooial Soiencea Sooiety and the Departllents of Political Science and SooioloBY

Marx and the liberation of women

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY - ROCHESTER

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Sponaore.:t by the Departllenta of Hietory an:! Poli t1oal Scie1100

. . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ANN ARBOR

Residential College, Eaat Quad, Room 126

SpODSoHCI by Social Soieace Coacentration Progr&lll &lid Gllild House

:wo camiO IIUWICH -- "Marx and tbe Bl.&ok World," a talJc by IIQa DunaJll'flkQa at. t.be · Un1vera1t:y ot MichisBDo sponsored by the center ot Atri.CaD an:! Atl'o-AMrican Studies •

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Detroit author Royo Dunt>y2vskaye ia undertaklno; a national lecture tour in

cenjunction with th~ Karl Morx Cantcncry, the onnivcrsory of his deoth In 1883,

For from beln9, o commemoration of his deeth, the tour will be r.n affirmation of

the life end vltollty of Marx's humanism today,

Ms, Dunoyavskayo, whose latest work, Rose Luxemburg. Women's Liberation and

Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, hes been oublished in thls centenary year by

Humnnitiea Preas in the u.s. end Harvester Press In Great Britain, will speak In

two dozen cities, The topics range from Msrx end the Black ·WOrld, to post-Marv

Marxists such os Rose Luxembur~, to Marx end the liberation of women,

In the Detroit area Ms. Dunoyevskaya will speak three times: at the

:University of Windsor, at the Ut:~lversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, end at Oakland

·.University, Rochester,

On Tuesday, March 8, in celebration of International Women's Doy0 she will

apeak on, "Women as Revolutionary Force and Reoaonl from Rosa Luxembu.rg to Todoy'a

··.Women's Liberation Movement." The lecture will be at the University of Windsor

at 3 D,iii,'··&iY the AsaUillJltion Lounge of the University Center, The talk is sponsored

by the Social Sciences Society and the Denartments of Political Science

and Sociology,

On Wednesday, March 9, Ms, Dunayevakaya wlll s.,eak on "Marx and the Liberation

of· Women," The lecture wlll be at Ookland University, Rochester, in the Crockery

AJcove in the Ookland Center at 1 p.m. and sponsored by the departments of

Hisi:Qry and Political Science, ·. '.

· On Thunday, Maroh 10, she will apeak on "New Momenta in Marx's Last Decade••

from the French edition of Caottal to his Bthnological Nptebookp." The lecture Ia

7 p,m, at 'aeaidentlal College, Ba1t Quod, Room 126, end is soonaored by Soc.lel

Co~~eentretion Program and Guild "ouae,

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Former Trotsky .Secretary

Pbilosopher-Feminist on campus this week b)' Marina Primorac

Raya Ounaycvsbya, the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States, and a womtn's tibaation activist, spok-= at the University of Windsor on Tuesday, March 8th. The ulk' was entitled 'Woman as Ra·olurionary Force and Reason: From Rou Luxemburg to Toda}•'s Libcr.uion Move­ment ...

Ms. DuruyC\-skaya discussed the gtobal nature of feminism and revolution, with rdacncc to Ding ling, the Chin~ Feminist; Flora Kuster. the first woman to call for a "'·orkcr's rC'\·olution; and Ros.a Luxemburg, the Polish­Gaman I"C'\"O)utionary throrcti­aan.

Ms. Duruye\'Ska}·a served as Trotsky's Russian Secretary in 1937-3& during his cxi1e in Mex­ico. HowC'\-a, she broke with him So:)OO aftcN:ards, arguing "that the Soviet Union was not a ··worker's state, though degcn· crate:··. but r:1ther. a state­capitalist society. She explained, in response to .1 question from the audience. that the liicler­Sta.lin pact of 1939 was to her more than a mere technicality; it was a sign that the Soviet

· Union was not a workers' state. In her writings, Ms. Dunay·

cvskaya compares the nationali­zation of Soviet institutions to -the act of prostitution. Marriage is a form of exclusive privau: propcrt)•. while prostitution is universal property. The woman remz.ins unfree ~ithcr waY. Like-

wise:, nationalization in the Soviet Union has not according to Dunaycvskaya, made its citi­zens freer, because it has not fundamentally changed the rela­tionships between ruler and ruled.

Ms.· Dunaycvskaya has cOm­bined her dual interest in revol­utionary philosophy and fcmi· nism by saying that the women's liberation 010\'Cmcnt can be regarded as a potential revolu­tionary clement. This theory is based or. the research she has done on the last decade of Marx's life, in which his essays explored mate-female relation· ships with respect to socialism.

She said that Marx was • opposed to the so-called '"vul­

gar communism" which assumes that abolishing private property, without ahering fundamental social relationships, can change society. When ,\\:ux wrote of the "new passions and new forces that arise in the bosom of Stlciety". he was referring nnt onlr to th<.• proletariat. hut also to black~. women. ami youth, each of whum an.· putcn­tial revolutionary dements.

These clements of Marx's theory of humanism as well as the feminist dimensions of the revolutionary theoretician Rosa Luxemburg, arc the subjects of Ms. Duilaycvskaya 's latest book - Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and .Marx's Philo­sophy of Revolution.

Ms. Dunayevskaya explained that she wanted the audience to .. meet" Rosa Luxemburg "not only because I wrote the only good book on her." In her passion to transform the soci~ty we live in, Luxemburg made it clear that to be a.rcvolutionary it iS ''not enough to understand Marxism; one must demand being considered as a human being."

In reference to the black movement, Dunaycvskaya told the audience that they, as Canadians, should be proud of .. thar glorious part of your hi­story when Freedom Road, the Underground Railroad for slaves, ended in Canada." As an after­thought she added "I don't know what }'ou've dof!C with your blacks since then, because there arcn 't many around."

Ms. Dunayevskaya concluded her remarks by saying that the greatest achievement wday's woman's liberation movement has had is its cwr-persistancl" for its caus..· in the face uf that "-·hich discourages protest.

Mard1 nurks tht· lOUth ;m'!!:.. \"ersary uf Karl 1\\:ux's death, and lntcrmniunal \\'omen's Day fell on March Bth,l so this ulk was very well-timed, h1 Mten­dancc were close tu 100 people, primarily woincn. This event was co-sponsored by the Social Science Society, the Political Science Dcpanmcnt and the De-. parunent Of Sociology and An­thropology.

Dunaycvskaya: to be a revOlutionary It iS ·"not enough to understand Marxism; one must demand bcirig considered as a human being" t

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IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY . AND TO COMMEMORATE THE MARX CENTENNIAL

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS OF AREA STUDIES

HISTORY HONORS COLLEGE

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Lecture onMazx, Women Five OU unlls are combining lo oUer a March 9 leclure by aulhor Raya Duna­Yevskaya on "Marx and lhe UberaUon of Women• presenled In honor otlnler­noUonaJWomen'sDayandlocommem­orale lhe Marx cenlennlal

The leclure ls at I p.m. in lhe Oakland CenlerCroclcerywtlh aU lnleresled persons invtled al no charge. A recepUon w'illloUow.

The program ls Presenled 1>-1 area sludles. hlslory, poUUca! sclence.lhe Hono11 CoDege and lhe O!!!ce otlhe Dean. CoUege o!Arls and Sciences.

Dunayevskaya ls a Marxlsi-Hum"!'lss phUosopherand lhe aulhor of "Rosa Luxemburg." 'Women's Uberallon."

. and "Marx's Phllosophy of RevoluUon"

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R~y~ Dunoycvsknyo, internr.tion~lly known t1rrxist-Humonist nh!losonher ~nd

author of Rose Luxemburo,, Wnm?~S Libcr~tion ond Mcrx's Philosonhy of R~volution,

will be spenking on "New i~oments in Marx's Lnst Deco~e" nt the University of

Michigan on Thursday, March 9. Her tnlk which is be!~ s~onsored by the Social

Science Concentration ProP;rllm and the Guild House will bc held in Room 127 of

Residentinl ColleRe, Eost Quad nt 7 ~.m.

The talk will coincide with the Marx Cente~ory, 1983, onrl is nnrt of a

nationwide lecture tour being unrlertoken by Ms. Dunoyevsknyo on the oceosion

of the Centenary. Far from bein~ o commemoration of his neath, Ms. Dunnyevskoyo

views her tour ns onrt of ~n ~ffirmntion of the life nnd vitality of M~rx's

humenism today, which she views as h~ving nothing in common with. the stnte~

cnoitolist regimes of Russi~ and Chino.

She views Marx's lost decode as one of his most intellectually creative

neriods. Her t~lk will toke u., such to.,ics as 11orx 1s cdit.in~ of the French

edition of Cooitol after the Paris Commune (1872-75), his critique of would-be

socialist orgonizctions of his day in Critigue of tb2 Gotha Program (1875); his·

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We hove only the most brief, prP.l!mlnory news of Foya 's lecture tour In the North~~st at the halfway point of her stay there, But we did learn that the media re$ults hove been especially good. You r.lreody know that RD Is scheduled to cnpeor on, the Cosper Citron show on radio, But you may not know that she has already been Interviewed on o Block radio station In New York for c very excltln~ IS minute show. It turns out that the Interview will be submitted to the Block radio network for release over 105 outlets In April, The woman who did the Interview was over• whelmed with how much she felt she hcd lecrned In such c short time, Rayo also participated In o one hour Interview on on "alternative" rPd\o station, belnR Inter· viewed by Bertell Ollm~n, this time directly as ~ review of RLWLKM, The REB will be meeting '•nrll 29 to discuss Royo 's renort of her trl1> In the Northeast.

So much do·~e consider Royo's notional lecture tour as our resnonse to tbP. crisis on the campuses ond In the community tbct Olga's leod concludes directly with on !nvltot!on for oll to beer Royo In ~erson In their locality If possible, or If not to open o dialogue with us on the boats of what we present as Marx's Marxism for this cen­tenary yeor, Jim's youth column octuolly begins to report on some of the converso­tiona with youth from Royo 's three lectures on her Michigan tour earner this month, on their responses to o new view of Marxism,

In foct, the juxto~osltlon of on oco• demlc Marx centenary conference In Ann Arbor lost week with the earlier nresentat!on by Royo at the same school on Marx's lost decode, powerfully demonstrated to us whot different worlds those two events Inhabited. The missing figure In the ocodemlc 11celebrotlon11 wos· Marx himself, since nearly all speakers rushed to oresent their

own analyses ln tbelr subject fields wltb reference to "the Marxist tradition", We were therefore all the mored~ermlned to spread the word for and wide about Royo's second, and very special presentation at U, of Michigan March 30·· on "Marx and the Block Worl~"• sponsored by the Center for Afroo."erlcon end Afrlcon studies.

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Ra~·a Dun;~)'C\'Skaya has been a rcvolu· tionary activi~t ever since she arrived here from Russia a~ a child 60 years ago, and she is the founder of Marxist-humanist philos· ophy in the U.S. She will speak on her just· published booJ.., Rosa Luxemburg, Women :r Uberotton and Marx's Philosophy of Rr:.,V· lulion in l"cw York on March 16, 18, 20and 24 (sec calendar for dclails) as pan of a 20-city national tour.

Like Rosa Luxcmb'..lrg, whose feminist dimcmion she reveals for the f1rst lime in her new •.o.-ork, Dunayevskaya has spent her life fighong sc.\ism and elilism in the: Left as well as tn the dominant society. Both women carved out original roads for their lives and their thought. Now 72, Dunayev~

··skaya is a passionate speaker who auacks male chauvinism in -the same breath as she brings revolUiionary philosophy to lire.

A life or activism In high school in Chicago in the 1920s,

Duna)·cnkaya was already leading student

the Black freedom movements and labor :. demonstrations. She has participated in al' ~-~~~~~~~~-------:----------------------------~ movements since, hitchhiking all over the rrom the Iranian women who continue to Commune ol' 1871 (for which he helped councry during the Depression to be at resist Khomeini 's counter-revolution, to the establish a women's section of the First In-every major strike. She worked with Leon Central American women who will never go ternational). The book shows how mass Trotsky when he was exiled in Mexico in the back to th( kitchen. movements have innuenced thought for the late 1930s, and then broke with him when past 200 years, ending with the Montgomery

" she could no longer accept Russia as a Marxist-humanism Bus Boycott which began the self-organiza-uworker's state." After Trotsky's assassi· Dunayvskaya calls her body of ideas tion of Blacks in the South, and the East

· · d h d' · · h Marxist-humanism. Marx's name for his d nauon, she contmue er 1scuss1ons w1t European revolts of workers and stu ents his wife Natalia Trotsky. philosophy was "a new Hum;~nism," and demanding "Bread and Freedom." She

Dunayevskaya's view of revolution is so his goal was "revolution in permanence." demonstrates that the movement from deep and totalthat·h compels the complete He meant, according to Dunayevskaya, that practice to theory is itself the theory we can reorganization of all life's activity. The aim the cominuous self-development of people: usc as a base as we work out revolutionary of revolution, she says, is to develop new and their ideas-the revolutionary dialectic philosophy. kinds of hum;~n relationships and to trans- -would constantly release new forms or In her second book, Philosophy and form work from drudgery to the creative human creativity. Marx envisioned a day Revolution (1972), precisely because Marx expression or our minds, bodies and emo- when we would all be "in the absolute was rooted in the Hegelian dialectic, Duna-tions. Her id~a of socialism challenges the movement of becoming." yevs~aya explores "Why Hegei? ..• W.h;v. legitimacy of ~very government in the According to Oun;~yevskaya, the post- Now?" as well as taking the measure of the worJd, and also challenges ICO ycot1 .• of· Marx Marxists narrowed Marx's vision, theories of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Sartre post-Marx Marxist thirlkcrs. starting with Engels. His Origin of the

Dunayevskaya delved into Marx's philos- Family both glorifies primitive society and and f\ho in light of the recent Black, anti· ophy to look for a way out of what she des- limits women's rcbillion since then-where- war and women's movements. Humanities ignatcd a "state-capitalist" world. Back in as Marx saw continuous struggle wilhin all Press has reprinted both books along with

I · · her new one to mark this year as the hun-the 1940s, she singled out women and youth societies. Even such greJt rcvo uuonan~s as as well ;~s Blacks and workers as the revolu- Luxemburg and Lenin failed to build on the drcdth anniversary of Marx's death. (All of tionary force.~ in this country. She has since .loJality of Marx's philosophy. After 100 ~~~~)~oks arc available for SJ0.9S in paper-published three major theoretical works years of trun"Cated and failed revolutions, and 7,000 pages of her writings arc o~ Ounaye\·skav3·~a·/:o;wdl;,vc lu~~t·the.Jink.~ Rosu Luxemburg, Women's Liberation

· r·1 •h w St t u · -1 M • , 1 1 h 1 b and Marx's Philosophy of Revoultion ex-micro 1m at • c ayne a c mvers1 Y \t'Hh arx s ,. arx1sm, w uc mos e re- amincs Luxemburg with eyes of 1983 and Labor Archives. For the past 27 ye:rs, she created to meet the demands or today's

explores the unique but unfinished contri· . has been the only woman to head an Ameri· mass movements for freedom. butions of the women's movement. At th'e can MarAis! organization, the News and E1Cplorlng Marxism same time, it discloses "new moments~' In Letters Committees. All three of Ounayevskaya's books h.,ve Marx's last decade which lead directly tQ

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Humanism he had projected four decades earlier In the Economlc·Phllosophic Manu· serlpts.

Fof~D;i or oraaalzeUon In· Part II, "The Women's Liberation

Movement u Revolutionary Force and Reason," she lakes up the Black dimen· slons o! ·the 19th century and current womcli'S moverrt-:nts, as we!! :: hi;h!i;ht· ina historic .. turnlna points when women were In the forefront of revolutions, from 1917 In Russia to 1975 In Portugal. Through· out the book, Dunaycvskaya cKamincs the question or forms or oraanlzation, rrom the decentralized women's movement to Luxemburg'• Insistence on democracy uarter the revolution . .,

Dunaycvskaya writes, 11Thc demand for decentralization. involves the two pivotal qucslions of the' day; and I miaht add, ques­tions of tom.orrow, because we are not aoins to have a successful revolution unlcu we .do answer. them." The quesdons are, first, "the totality and the depth of the necessary uprootina or thlt exploitative, sexist, ra.cist society •. Second, the dual rhythm or revolu· lion: not j•;at the overthrow or the old, but the creatJ Jn or the newt not just the reorg­anlzatl.o;i or. objective, material rounda·

·lions bunhe releue bC subjective personal rr"eedom, creativity an~ talents. n

"In a word/' abe concludes, "there must be such appreciation of the movement from below, from .practice, that we 'never asain

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On Man:h 14, die world will mark ·lished last year). These books pteseot a the day KariMactdiedooehundtedyeus body of ideas which are without teady ago. What will a cmnuy between us md comparison in contemporaty Mantist Mact mean for our vitw of that thinker! . thought. The contemporaty intem;t in Marx's Dunayevskaya is scheduled to speak ideas, in liKbt of pteseot economic and on March 16 (Playhouse 2-4 pmJ. Her soci2lcrises,andinplacesfarremote&om topic wiD be, "New Moments in Malx's where he lived, have certainly reserved HwDanism and Dialectic-Rosa Luxem­a place for the Mact legacy in today's bwg and Women's Liberation; Franz F:a­world. Yet in the view ol Raya Dunayev- non and the Third World Revolutions." A skaya, a Mantist-humanist philosopher, ·. Jook at the new ideas coming out of both the links between Mact and the 1980s are · the Women's Liberation movement and much more a chaUeoge toMantists Ibm a • the emergence of a Third Word struggling matter fo.r commemoration. i for liberation-together with a re-evalu-

Dunayevslcaya .combines a lifetime ·. ation of the last decade of Marx's life-are of activity in the Marxist movement with : what underlies Dunayevskaya's concept a role of theoretician, that spans some 40 :. of the "todayness' of Marx. She stresses years. She participated in the labor and the actual and unforeseen revolutionaty civil rights striJ8gles ol the 1930s. At the movements that have help<:d uncover · endofthatdocade,shealsosem:d'IIotskyas new aspects of Marx's original philo­secretary in Mexico. She broke with{· sophyandthewayinwhichhedeveloped Trotsky over his designatio~ of ·Russia as it. a .. worke~s state," and instead developed ; Duna.yevskaya's most recent book, an analysis of Russia as a state-capitalist Rosa Luxembwg. Women's Liberation society. Her findings then: sparked an ex- and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, fo­(ensive international debate and by the cuses on the Polish revolutionary and 1950s Dunayevskaya occupied a unique anti-war leader, Rosa Luxerobwg. in the place on the Americao left. context of theories of revolution which

As founder Qf Marxist·bumani_sm in major post-Marx Maixists created for . the U.S., Dunayevskaya is the author of .. their owri day.lt also reveals lor the first three maior works which include Marx- : time, the feminist dimension of Luxero­

udom, Philosophy and Revo- bwg. Here, DunayevSkaya expaods upon . _ I Rosa LwiCmburg,: Woinm's her earlier writings on· Women's liber;l-liJi#iliiOo 'aiJd ~s Philosopbf o{Re- > - Continued on pogel2

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tion by looking at the binh of the wom­en.'s movement and the Wlique way its standpoint has reshaped the questions of revolution universally with its deep criti­que of the manlwomm n:Jationship and its questioning. "what happens after the revolution?"

Thethirdpanol this book, which is a new look at the way MaJx developed his philosophy, includes "new moments" from the last decade of his life. Dunayev­skaya observes that instead of this p<:riod being a "slow death" as some MaiXi.sts characterized it, Marx was actively dig­ging deep into the dialectic of liberation in examining the revolutionary possibili­ties of non-capitalist laods, particularly Russia. This included the recently uans­cribed Ethnological NO!eboaks of Karl Marx, which shows a profound analysis of both the man/woman relatonship of the peasantry. Dunayevskaya argues that a new appreciaton for the comprehensive­ness of Marx's world view is compelled by the Third World Revolutions them­selvr.s which, she says; have expressed such new levels of philosophy as Franz Fanon, who wrote, "this new humanity cannot do othc:rWise Ibm define a new humanism both lor itsell and for others ... National Consciousness, which is not nationalism, is the oilly thing that will give us an international dimension."

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his relatonship to the revolutionaty de­velopments of his time, including the slave revolts and struggle lor an eight how day which took place in the U.S. Dunayevskaya says that not only did Marx originally caD his philosophy, "a new Humanism," but that the methode· logy which he practiced throughout his life gave him such a rootedness in the struggles of his time that he could t:atch the principles of continuous hWilZl de· velopment in a philosophy of "revolution in permanence." Dunayevskaya.writes, "Marx's legacy is no mere heirloom, but a live body of ideas and p<:rsp<:etives that is in need of concretization." ·

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;.11 tho locnls hnve so much to study from the mnilln?, only five dnys n~o which Included with the new Issue of ~. ~nyn 's re·,ort nn her trh to New York and Philadel•,hlt~, as well tis the REB minutes ond the new Bulletin Index, thnt this letter of the week will be nn t~bbrevlnted one, The latest news Is that Eunene collerl this mornln~ to ~lve a quick view of the activities this ~ost weekend In Washington, ·DC, where Rayn a•,oke both to 11 ~rou., of ~radunte students at 1\merlcan University on Frlrlay nlp,ht and to the Irnn conference on St~turday, EuRena will be sending you a full re~ort directly, but he felt thot both meetln~s went very welt, with the attendance at the Frldoy meetlnp, lncludln~ both a Block Conscious­ness Novement nctlvlst from South l•frlco ond a "rofessor of African Studies that Lou hod met at Howard, At the CIR.\ conference 1 tse lf, the .,ort lc I •iet !on of both Amer!can and Irt~nlan Marxlst-Hu!Mnlsts wns evidently .,rerlomlnnnt from bea,lnnln'l to end·· In all the nanels ond ''resentatlons. Over $100 In t1 terature was sold, and quite o few new friends were met, lncludlnR on lm~ortnnt writer on Iraq. In addition, we were able to meet with the new Puerto Rican activist friend and deenen that relntlonshl·'· You should be recll!vln~ EuRene 's full re~ort In a few dnys.

Rays's "non-stop" tour has now carried her to Chlcn~o, where she Is to S!'eak nt UIC today, before rush In~ off to Iowo for e Thuradlly meet In~ there. But I did want to ~lve o little report on Roya's sneclal meeting March 30 In Ann Arbor on "Marx and the Black World". Thoueh the turnout there wns not lar3e, It "as most revealing, both on the pervasive racism In this country that makes so mnny white students less Interested when It Is a "Bleck tonic", and on the seriousness of those who did turn out, They Included Black youth fkst looking at Marxism as a possible "p,roundlng" for study and activity, a white nrofessor who teaches also at the State Prison, a younp, Cuban, and several Black Intellectuals, Herold Cruse amon.~ them,

They heard the newest presentation by Rays-- one that combined element• of Raya on the Black World from all three books· and from ACOT, In aaklng how Marx could have looked st John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry and concluded that it had started a whole new·world stap,e, Rays dun Into the orfelns and develonment of Marx's "Promethean ~n", We were able to foilow Marx and the Blt~ck World from Wase-Labor and Csnltal throur,h the Grundrisse to Canltal and finally to the Ethnological Notebooks, with Roya never se"eratlns Marx's develonment from the Black movement In the USA, and Black women as phil· osonhera of revolution esoeclally, The lecture also moved to nest-Marx Marxists, whether Engel4 or at the time of the Russian Revolution·· with Rays describing Claude Mckay's confrontation with the l•merlcan Communists, and Lenin's seal'Ch for a nath to revolutlon "If. not through Berlin, then throup,h Peking". The chal• len~e Rays threw out then was to face the fact that the movement hadn't developed since Marx either on the Black Dimension or Women's liberation,

The lengthy and serious discusalon that followed Indicated all the more the necessity to r>ractlce the most creative follow-throuRh in this period, In Ann Arbor we will be holding a meetlna Anril 12 to discuss Msrxlst-Humenlsm further with friends who attended Rayn's two lectures there, Could we hear from all the locals ~hat follow~throu~b work they have pianned1

Yours, Mike

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April s, 1983

Dear Friends, ton

The Washing/ o .c. leg of Ray a's tour, though held in "our nation"s Capital" and primarily at "American" University, was dominated by the international rlimen-sion 1 from the conference on Iran and a meeting with an important Biddle East acholar, to t;he Black Consciousness Hovement and our conversations with a Puerto Rican Harxist-llumanist.

Let us begin at the be<Jirllng. Upon her arrival in l~ashington P.aya called the Middle East scholar who"she had be<Jun a corrcspondencd with. He i111111J@'"H at ely came over to see her. The conversation ranged over thcNiddle East and Narxitt-numanism with his appreciation of ho~ Raya could be both so political-revolutionaryand deeply philosophical. He accompa!g!ieft Raya to American University to the evening lecture on Harx' s last decade delivered to graduate students from the Sociology Department. The audience of approximately 40-50 was both white and Black, professors a~d graduate students ~ included as well three members of the Bl~ Consciousness !;!ovement of Azania at least one of whom had met Lou at Howard University and hear about no

·coming at that time. As well_~nother Howard professor who had tried to bring Raya ~o her University journe:.rup to hear the lecture. In the lecture itself the audience had theopportunity to hear Raya's new form of Marx's %~moments in his last decade which she had first worked out in her original u. of Mich. lecture. This form ties together Marx's new moments of the l£1.10s to Harx's last decade, explaining that it is impossible to fully understand Marx's last decade without graspli>ing these· neit. moments of the.l840s and showing how the 1870s and 1880s was in one sense a ' . return to the ideas of the 1840s, only this time on a higher level as in the Hegelian: .

, re#urn to origins. Though the question-answer period was brief, some $50 in literaturE!.\'. :was sold0 including two of the new books. ' · · n ·'·.

The next morl.ng the CIRA conference began ·.(Center for Iranian Research and Analysis). There were marked differenc;a;; ·.:rom laziio"··-- . . . '·year's con'ference •. on• the one hlind the number of people attending was less -- · '··

,'wi,t.h· the audience bezing 40 to 60 for most of the sessions, almost all Iranians. · on· · .-­t:hE! other hand the Marxist-Humanist presence was veryintegral to this conference,

·, .right from the podium. Not only was Raya invited to give the keynote address, to .... :, 'Which we will return in a moment, but Hiddlee East comrades gave two major presCmtatiens;

'a!:' .. the ·panels, and I was invited to be the commentator at a third panel. Thus, Saturday · , · .w.iis·.··.ind~ed. full ~f that Marxist-Human~s.1.~resence with Middle East Comrades giving ·

. : a ·paper on the Peasantry and Sultan-~ at the first session which;sparked a '·:.great deal of controversy on the role of the peasantry in '79 and in the future. This· . was fol,lowed by a panel on Thoeretical Questions in which I was able to give a

brief COmmentary involving Marx's break with theory as only a debate among l.nte.uoeC1~UIUS In th!i :t:hira panel two comrades presented a paper on women theori ticans in the Middle ·East which again sparked questions and coounent in the discussion period. Flowin'g·'

·.out Cit' these panels and discussions were a number <bf infot'lllal discussions and new ·

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re~ationships which the Middle East comrades will be following Up on including exc~lSJ.ye'"'.;;~!l'c~ :r.eports in the next issue of their newspaper. Qlll of this set the ground for the keynote.' address by Raya in the evening. Raya had attended an early morningprnsentation where

. ::'~other}n.ajorfspeaker /t.o.d begun his presentation in an interesting manner on trying t.o , ·show tlie very new aspects of the Iranian Revolut.i.on as a Third l~orld Revolution, l..~c!~.~~'%':::4 'thti'fact that it was an urban revolution. However his presentation had then fallen .· into p~~KB% a psychological explanation of events. It was for this reason ~~~-·=·'··''''

.Raya felt compelled to make a keynote address that had two focal pointsz Xigh tiedtl.lint:~y tagethera Marx's Marxism and post-Marx Marxists who did not fully grasp Marx's Mar~ls~~-~

. cine of the very new aspects of the post~~larx Marxisfb which Ray a introduced into• ~h~er~1·, ~~:t;i~.';~i;i'J~ ··for the first time was a critique of Luxemburg at her highest moment--the 1905 R Despite her greatness at this moment, and her tromendtoos appreciation for spontaniety,·

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Soviets, that she had of the general or mass strike. Discussion was spirited and followed by informal conversation where a nwnber of women wanted to speak with> Raya. Literature sales here too were good with somewhere close to $100 of-literature-­both English and Farsi sold, primarily through the work of the Hiddle East comrades and through n who had journ.r&d down from New York to be with us for the Nashington part of the tour. ~--

Raya was able to meet the next day with the 11iddle East ccRimnmrm comrades and discussion was held on follow through to the conference, on preparations for the West Coast part of the tour with reference to the Middle East friends and wtPn~he period leading up to Labor Day.

Yours,

Eugene .,.,,.

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March 24, 1983

Dear Friends!

We want to let all the subscribers and friends of News & Letters in the Washington, Maryland nnd Virginia nreas know about two lectures by Rayo Duno­yevskoyo in yaYr area. These will be given os o pnrt of Rayo's notional lecture tour after the nublication by Humanities Press of all three of her major works••

. her trilogy of revolution. You may hove seen the announcement of the lectures in the .lost lasue of~ (page 4).

Ebtb of the lectures in Washington DC will be held on the campus of Amer­ican University, on Friday evening April 1 and Saturday evening, April 2. Here ore the details on the lectures:

*** P'&'tday, ·April 1 at 8100 PM, American University First floor. conference room, Nebraska Roll 3700 Nebraska Ave, NW

\. Toptcr "New Moments in Marx's Lost Decode: the 1875 French edition of

Capitol; the Man/Woman relationship in the Ethnological Notebooks

Sponsorl Deprtment of Sociology, American University

*** Saturday, April 2 at 8100 PM . Conference on "Revolution, Counterrevolutton and the Islamic Reoub11.c11

American University Ward I and II Buildings

. Nebraska and Massachusetts Aves,

Toplcl "The Todoyness of Marx's Humanism on the Centenary of Marx's Death"

Sponsor& Center for Ironton Research and Analysts

We hope that you will be oble to attend the lectures ond get o chance. to meet end speok with Royo tn. person. If you hove read her lot.est work, Rosa Lux- ·

Aiaiburg. Women's Ltberotton and Marx'• Pbllosoohy of Revolution, this would be :, o soad time· to dtscusa your Ideas ond questions an lt. If not, coates will be . .'1ivot1oble ot the lectures.

Yours far freedom,

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March 22, 1983

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Dear Frle.nds: ""rll 12, 1983

This mornln~ on tho TV naws ware .,lcturas of lon~ lln~s of voters In Black Chlcap,o waltlnn to cast ballots n~atnst the virulent roclsm that has burst Into the o·,~n throuqhout the alectton cam•,ntg,,, ever since Ht>rold Washln.'lton ·bacama the first Black condtdnte to wtn the nomination for Mayor. All eyes are now on that city some have called "Jo)vlnnnesbur~ on the lake", .!2Q! because· there Is anything naw about racism, but because new ravolutlonory forces sre on the move there, and no one can yat say where they will end u~, os they search for a revol­uttonory transformation of the Amertcon niRhtmare, Our eyas ore of course on Chl­csqo for anothar reason as well! toniP,ht Is the sum-uo meetlnq Rays Is having with tha Chicago local at the conclusion of her tour there.

We just hnve the most ore­llmlnnry reports about the first two meetln~s of that tour, ns Rnya 's schedule has been so jammed that there has been no time for more, The first meettnP, at UIC In Chicago evidently had a fine turnout of some 90 students and nrofessors, wIth substsnt tal Black ;lllrt tc 1 f'St I on, both African and !lmartcan, As well as lnter­nsttoncl In all resoects. Both the literature sales and the discussion were very good, 'lou may remember that Dave P. and Terry have been conductlniJ A study 11roup In RLWLKM on that campus for···the last month. Raya had no sooner finished that meet­Ing when aha had to leave for~. where her lecture there hod been arranRed by several months of trips and hard work esnectolly by Dave P, The turnout at U. of Iowa was evan greater than UIC, with ~ver 150 In attendance. Not only were the sal~a of literature excellent, but a R~oup of actl,lsts there wants to begin a study of Marxist-Humanist Ideas. Chicago will be· sending you a full report on the Midwest tour as a whole, Including the maetlnqs at Urbana (the Third World W9men's Conference), Wisconsin, and the local moe~lngs.

Raya Is gotn~ to be In Salt Lake City by the end of the week, where Ted's work on medta Interviews has been such. that we have he" to be selective about which of the offers to take. And this morn­Ing& mall brought us a beautiful noster that they have un for the tour at U.of Utah. Meanwhile Peter haS already left LA to 30 uo to Seattle for advance work on tlie tour 'there, where Rays Will be arrl'vtng five beetle days from now.

'lours, Mike

. April 17,198.3

. ' Dear Friends,

Counting interviews, talks to classes, panels, receptions and lectures, Raya gave 10 speeches plus a sum up meeting for the Chicago local. This activity brought us over $460 in lit sales in­cluding 20 copies sold of RUil.&l.'iPR, 12 P&R and 7 li.&F. ~-le have well over 60 people who signed our mailing lists and want to know more about illarxist-Humanism.

Raya gave 2 lectures in Chicago, one at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and one for the local; she spoke at the University of Iowa: at a special women's conference in Champaign/ Urbana, Illinois called "Common Differences:" and at the University of ~lisconsin in Madison. In each lecture, Raya crt>vered many of the same points:an!i yet for each one the form was different. Thus, for example, where at UIC, R aya began with l•iarx and the d /~ relationship, at Madison she began with meeting Rosa Luxemburg, her entrance on the German scene.

In each lecture Raya brought out Marx's break with bourgeois society, his opposition to both capitalism and vulgar communism as well as what he was for, a new humanism, and an end to the division . 1'

of mental and manual labor. What struck us as new was that along with d/~ relations and a new humanism, was Marx's sensitivity to words and racism and the category of time. Thus, Raya showed how Marx ob-jected to the words "negro" .and "slave" being used as if they meant .~ the same thing. Unseparated from this, Raya would introduce Marx's most "economic• category--socially necessary labor time--and· show that { each economic category is inde.ed a human one by showing what time · meant tc;> il1arx1 "Time is the space for human self-development." .• ,,

Marx's Marxism was traced in each lecture from his beginning, through Grundrisse, where he saw something positive in the Asiatic mode of production and learned that he needed to change his concept of theory, through hie last decade where the d/~ relationship and the question of race is again brought forward through a discussion

. of the Iroquois women, the Irish, and the "intelligent Black" Aborigine.

It is the dialectics of revolution that was the basis of all Raya • s lectures. T.hus she traced the relationship between individuals and masses in motion for freedom and demonstrated the universality of freedom--that it could not be confined t~o~e dimension or one geograph~c locality. So we see 18.31 was not only Nat Turner but also Maria Stewart, and not only Turner and Stewart but the slaves follow­ing the North star to freedom bringing on the Civil \1ar. ~/e see that 1848 is not only the revolutions in Europe but also Seneca Falls in the·U,s. and Sojourner Truth as well as Margaret Fuller who, through revolution, became a whole human being. Raya shows us that John Brown is related to the founding of the First ~lorkingman • s International with Harriet Law in the leadership; and that the 1871 Faris Commune has a relationship to women's liberation as well as the qwestion of agriculture and revolution in so-called backward lands. Where on the one hand we witness the greatness of to days \'111/i on the question of challenging male chauvinism within the Left, on the other hand we see its incompleteness on both race and revolution in the ~ILM's·dis­regard of Rosa Luxemburg.

• Each lecture ended with the new paragraph that Raya wrote

for RL\'/U:i.J'R which brings together what Raya calls "this dialectical circle of circles." Indeed, ·that is the best description of the ex­perience of this part of the lecture tour because each element was intertwined in such ~ creative way and throughout the 5 lectures in such a different way, that what emerged was the unchained dialectic,

Raya's.first lect~ was ~f UIC. Eighty people attended and bot $54 in literature, including J books. In the audience were the members of the study·group we have.organized on that campus~ a South African who teaches at UIC and with whom we had made deeper contact at the Third Norld Conference just prior to Raya's arrival; several Black students, Iranians, and a number of women from \'/omen's Studies, The .level of discussion was very high inc.luding questions on, "what. does it mean to make philosophy concrete?"; "on \:!hat basis do you say that Engels, LuX(!Aburg, and Lenin all fell short?" ; "why do you say that 11:a~s revolution in permanence differs from Trotsky's?"

The following day a member of our study group who teaches history ·(19th Century Radicalism) invited Raya to talk to his class of freshmen and sophomores. Her topic was, "Dialectics and Education --from r.;arx to the Fre-e Speech Movement in the 1960s." The most ex­citing part of that session was a Black student who asked Raya if Kennedy wasn't so much better.than Reagan. She replied yes, but then· read the first 2 paragraphs of the original introduction to ACOT. The student's eyes lit up as she read and he came to Raya after the class asking where he could get that pamphlet.

At the University of Iowa, a reception was held prior to the lecture at the Women's Resource and Action Center. Twenty women· attended, some of them lesbian-feminists and nearly all had a very positive response to Raya's talk on the feminist dimension of Rosa ·Luxemburg. There was considerable interest in Luxemburg's life and politics and $45 in lit was sold. At the evening lecture, 150 atte~d­

,ed, ·including some of the women from the afternoon meeting. ;rt was Raya.' s development of the integrality of women's ld.beration to Marx's philosophy that caused the most comment including applause when she said emancipation of women must coD)e before, during and after the revolution. ·rlhile women were the dominant force in the audience, there-·were also ma,ny men and Blacks and Latinos. Representatives of a·number of academic disciplines were present including history, planning, anthropolosy, economics and women's studies. At the end of the lecture, ail additional -1·7 5 in lit was sold accounting for 10

.·books total. Many people talked with Raya S:ft~r the lecture express­ing the desire to continue the discussion. The following day, the

_·paper cs.rried a report on the lecture with Raya' s picture on the · . front page (enclosed) • .

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.... ..: .. -3-uprooting of spciety must 'be and that is not only description, but demands philosophy and revolution be united. She brought in Rosa Luxemburg, Rosa 11\uki Bonaparte, Isobel do Carmo and "apartidarismo," i.:iriam Gafoor, Sojourner Truth1 and when they told her that her 15 short minutes were up1 "Time is the space for human self-development." It was those 15 minutes that helped bring 60 to her lecture, a lec­ture that had to compete with 6 other workshops. The questions after the lecture focused on Marx's last decade. An Iranian raised the ques­tion about the continuity between Marx's materialism and his concerns during the last decade. An Indian asked if revolution is possible in a country that is both feudal and capitalist.

Raya•s trip to Madison began with an appearance on a radio talk show that· has the largest audience in the area. The interviewer had actually read part of RLWL&MPR and New Essays. and asked questions about i•\arxist-Humanism, state capitalism, why did Raya say ti'Et Rosa Luxemburg was ·an original. character, how does the general strike re­late to Martin Luther-King Jr. and Ghandi, is it possible to have a revolution in the U.S.? The first caller was a close friend who asked about Solidarnosc. Others asked·about the relationship of the' eco­nomic cr~s~s and education and what the "American Lenin" would be like. In answering that, Raya began with today • s ~ILM.

The lecture that evening was the highpoint of the Midwest tour with 175 attending (some of whom had heard the talk show) and over '$200 in· lit sold with over 35 signing our mailing list. The audience was quite attentive and serious about theory--the discussion was lively. Questions raised reflected the fact that there are several faculty teaching "Marxism" from structuralist, social democrat and Stalinist points of view. Among these were the relationship of Marx- · ist-Humanism to materialism, and why we call Russia state capitalist. Raya ha-s truly shaken up the campus and these professors will undoubtedly be called to account. People actually stood in line to buy literature and expressed a desire to continue the discussion. · ·

. In both Iowa and Madison, the challenge is to make this le~re tour not an end, but an ongoing relationship to Marxist-Human­ism. What also is a challenge is our own work right within Chicago. The local's meeting was the least exciting be that lit sales, audience size and, more importantly, the discussio~ itself. At our sum up meetir1g, Raya pointed to some direction for us as we look from the .. tour .just ending to our Consti tut1onal Convention. . She discussed .. the new kind. o:J: member we are looking for and how that should guide our • activity; It was at that meeting too, that•Raya gave us a new look· at the roots of Marxist-Humanism as she brought together ~n a differ~ ent way the miners general strike of 1949-1950 and the transformation of what was to have been folarxism and State Capitalism into Marxism and Freedom as she invited workers to participate in the discuss~on of the· new book and decided that Marx's American roots as well as_ his Humanist Essays and Lenins Philosophic Notebooks should be included.

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_Our next Local meeting will take up the challeng_es_ poseci.PY """'"'·•'~ · · .this tcl\z:.;·- Among the questions· we will take up as· we discuss this-- - '-"·""'''·"''·"--o!~

letter are how can lessons learned from the tour help us to focus our.,, activity so that there is a continuity between the tour, our local meetings betw~en now and the Convention and the Convention itse~f.

Yours,

David Fark and Terry Moon

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l TUESDAY APRIL 5

THURSDAY APRIL 7

SATURDAY APRIL 9

1983 Midwest Lecture Tour by Raya Dunayevskaya

Topic:

"On the Marx Centenary: Facing the Challenge to All Post-Marx Marxists

- On the Women's Liberation Movement - On the Black Dimension - On Marx's Theory of Revolution in Permanence"

Co-Sponsors: Women's Studies, Black Studies, Political Science, Anthropology, School of Urban Planning and Policies, Center for Urban and Economic Development, Marxist-Humanists at UIC, Student Activities Funding Committee, and University Lectures Committee

University of Iowa at Iowa City 7PM - Shambaugh Auditorium

Topic:

"On the Marx Centenary: Facing the Challenge to All Post-Marx Marxists

On the Women's Liberation Movement On the Black Dimension On Marx's Theory of Revolution in Permanence"

Co-Sponsors: Women's Studies, University Lectures Program, Plaines Women's Bookstore, HERA, Iowa Socialist Party, and Iowa Planners' Network

News and Letters Committee - Chicago Mi<iland Hol-e/, Holal;,rc/ eo""'- :z.11£{ !=Iocr Acl<ltlls a+ ~S<t.f/e Topic:

"The Dialectics of Revolution: Confrontations with Marx­from Engels through Rosa Luxemburg to Our Age-Reveal Pathways to Freedom for Today

including - Rank and File Labor - Women's Liberation

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Champaign/Urbana Ms. Dunayevskaya will be both a panelist and a guest lecturer at the Third World Women's and Feminist Perspectives: Common Differences conference

1:30PM Panel:"Women in Revolutionary Movements"

3:30 PM Lecture:

"The Trail from Marx's Philosophy of Revolution to Today's Women's Liberation Movements

- From the Paris Commune 1871 to Iran 1979; -From China 1937/1949 to Portugal 1974; - From the Abe Women's War 1929 to Poland 1980; and - From Russia 1905/1917 to El Salvador's On-Going

Revolution Today"

Sponsor: The entire conference is sponsored by the Office of Women's Resources and Services, University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana

University of Wisconsin at Madison 7:30 PM - Wisconsin Center Auditorium

Topic:

"Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution"

Co-Sponsors: Women's Studies, German, History, and Sociology, and the off-campus Committee to Stop Militarism

like to order the following worke by Raya Dunayevskaya:

_Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's PhilosophY of Revolution (Published by Humanities Press, November 1982; $10.95 paperback, $19.95 hil.rd-boU1ld)

__ MarxiSm and Freedom (Reprinted by Humanities Press, 1982; $10.95 paper­back)··

_Philosophy and Revolution (Reprinted by Humanities Press, 1982; $10.95 paperback) Woman as Force and as Reason (Published by News and Letters Committees;

- $1.00; also. available in Farsi) __ Amer:l.can ·Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard (To be reprinted

by News.and Letters Committees in June, 1983; please let me know when it is.ava:l.lable)

:,~ttn<l· .. to: News and Letters Committees, 220 South State, Room 1326, Chicago, •check made out to same.

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I hAvA oiiN'AvEVsKAYA- author, •ctlvis~ 1nd form•r HCrlltary to Leon Trotsky -will b4' spuklnl In Chlclao twiCe In the month or April: Tu11sd1y, April 5, 3pm, et UIC campus, Chlca1o Clrde C11nter, Rm. 605, topic "'n the Mer. Centen1ry: F1cln1 the Chal/enae to Afl Po~t-Merx Marxists -On thll Women's Llber1t1on Movem11nt .• On the Bleck Dimension, On M1rx'a Theory of Revolution In Perm•nence": S1turday, ADrU 9, 3pm, •t lhe'Midl•nd Hotel, 172 w. Adams, HOlabird Room (2nd II.), topic "'ialec:tlcs ot Revolution: Con·; frontetlons with Merx - from Enaeta lhrouah RoM Luxemburt to our •ae -revul PllhWI)'I to freedom for today,"

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Ro1a Lux•mburp. Women•• Liberation •nd Marx•• Phll~•ophr or Revolution IHumen11111 Prau. Nov. tV821

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Phllo•ophy and Revolution IP-:""Ih regrmted in 1082 by Humlllillll p;IISI

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"On tM M•rx C•ntenary: Facing the Challenge to All Polt•Mar.c Marxl•t•

.. On the Women'a Liberati~ Movement

.. On the ·Black Dlmen11on

.. On Mlnt'a Theory of Revolution In P•rm•n•nce"

v-n•a Studi11 Proar••• llac:lc. Studha Proaru, PoUtlc:al Sehn;.e hpartMnt, Anthropolol)l Dapert•llto Sc:hool of Urben PllnnUI& and PoUcJaa, Cancer for Urban and Econoatc: tnYalop•nt, Klnbt•Huuaiata It UIC, Student AcUvlUII Fundln& eo..ltua, and the Univeraity Llcturaa eo.itua

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Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx•s Philosophy of Revolution (Humanities Press, Nov. 1982)

as well as

Marxism and Freedom and

Philosophy and Revolution (Both reprinted In 1982 by

Humanities Press!

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - IOWA CITY

SHAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM

"0 n the Marx Centenary: Facing the Challenge to All Post·Marx Marxists

- On the Women's Liberation Movement - On the Black Dimension -On Marx's Theory of Revolution in Permanence''

Co-sponsored by: Women's Studies Program, University Lectures Pro~ram. Flainea Women's Bookstore, HERA, Iowa Socialist Party, & the Iowa Planners' Network

For more information about Ma, Dunayevakaya'a midwest lecture tour, contact News and Letters Committees, 220 South State, Room 1326, Chicago, Illinois 60604 (312/663-0839),

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. · . Marx,st • Humanist ~lloiophar · · .. . . · . Thursday, April 7 ,.7 p;in •..

. · .. ·Univ. of Ia. ShambCiugh Auditodum , . "O·n th. MG-nc eenMnaryi:fodng·the ch01..n..to Ali polf~arx Marxists . . ..:.. o" th.• Women'i.Libe,..,lon 1,\oV•ni•!'t , . · . ..

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a f"1re in Dunayevskaya. She said she insiSted on !4e emancipation of women '.'before, 'during and after" the social ·revolution. Her commitment to

. equality long predates today's

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sian Revolutiou to her preseuce at II¥! hirlb cif the free speech m.Vemehi in · Berteley, Calif., during the 1960s, Raya Dun>yevskaya has experienced • revolution.

The Sllbtle wrinkles arouud ~er eyes and faintolSS of her voice belie the poteucy of the Marxist· humanJSm she · espoused before a crowd of about 150 people on the UI campus Thursday night.

Her lecture in Iowa City is part of a national tour honoring Ute Karl Marx Centenary, the anniversary of his death in 1Bi3.

""The Marxist legacy is not a mere heirloom,'" nhe said, "'but a live body of perspective:;. ••

Dunayev!;kaya, described as a philosopher. political analyst and women's l.iberationist, served as secretary for Lt;on Trotsky during his exile in Mexico and has written several influential bi)Oks on Marxism.

Marx rejected not only the profit motive, but alsO what he called .. vulgar communism," an equally detestable form of property ownership,

- that by the state, according to Dunayevskaya.

THROUGH THIS REALIZATION Marx established a "new humanism," including a new relationship between men and women. · · This aspect of Marxist th':"ry sparks

wonien's movement. , "For too long, she says, revolutionists

have promoted ·their· own cause and promised women that they come next. "•This is wrong .because you deprive yourself of the wisdom we women have," Dunayevskaya jokes.

But, she pointed. out, "Marx showed there was never a revolution that was not also a women's revolution."

As an example, slie noted that beside the anti-slavery movement of the American 1860s arose tbe first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls.

Women met there who were tired of making sandwiches for the un­derground railroads. They asked Why th~y couldn't participate in their own revolution. "They were asking ques­tions and getting answers way, way above what we are doing now," Dunayevskaya told the crowd. ·one of these Women, Sojourner

Truth, .. who was not exactly popular, especially with White men:· once told a group of priests because Jesus was

the son of God and Mary, man !tad nothing to do with it, Dunayevstaya said. ·

WHAT MARX OPENED UP ·in feminist freedo~ expanded everywhere, she said. ..It was a new WOrld."

Dunayevskaya noted that intelligent WO!llen like Sojourner Truth were said to have "it masculine mind." She com· merited, "You guys really did something to put your sex organs in your brain."

Another female revolutionist Dunayevskaya has featured in her writing is Rosa Luxemburg, who helped lead the left-wing Socialist Party in Poland during the 1905 Rus­sian Revolution.

Luxemburg rejected the idea that this was the last of the great revolu­tions, mainf:a,ining it was the first of the 20th century revolutions, her biographer said.

But Luxemburg came to recognize male chauvinism in the Socialist Party and made thii; the new thrust of her revolution. According to Dunayevskaya, "'the greatness of to­dil.y's women's movement can't com­W,re to her revolutionary zeal."

The Dally Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday, April 8, 1983 .

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ON THE MARX CENi'ENARY, NEWS AND LETTERS INVITES YOU TO HEAR:

Raya Dunayevskaya

Marxist ·Human1st philosopher

and author of

• Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution (Humanities Press. Nov. 1962)

as well as

Marxism and Freedom and

Philosophy and Revolution (Both reprinted in 1962 by

Humanities Press I

·Dialectics of Revolution: Confrontations with Marx-fl'()m Engels through Rosa Luxemburg to our age­reveal pathways to freedom for today

The presentation will include

* Rank and :file Labor * The Black dimension

3 p.m. Saturday, April 9

Holabird Room

* Women's Liberation * The Third World

Midland Hotel, Second Floor 172 W. Adama Cat LaSalle St.J

Sponsored by News and Letters Committees -- :free and open

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APRIL 9-13, 1983

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. _ __ ~ __ Differences: Third World Women and Feminist'·t»erspectives Mullicultural, interdisciplinafY and international in scope, the "Common Differences" conference in!~ to explore the comple:w.ity of similarities and differences among women acrou d~~ g.rou~ and cuftures. In using the term "third world" we include both women of certain minority communities In the U.S., such as Bl.tck, Chican.l, latina, Asian and Native Americar. and women from third world countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia .-.nd the Middle Ea\1.

The obfedives of lhe conference are to reach acnm cultural. disciplinary and national boundaries towartk the following ph-:

(I) to encourage dialogue and criticisms among "third world" and "first world" women;

12) to examine lhe research and analyses which po<.it a relatiomhip between feminist and third world ~tudies;

Ul to assess the ''absences" both in women's studil"i and third world scholaMip; and

141 to bring together scholars, writers, .utists, .1ctwists. communi"'· WOI'k.ers and the ge(l(!t.ll public for .1 mutu.ll '!>h.uing of idt'd\ .1nd experience.

This conference i\ free and Copt'n to the public. hhibits ''ill include m.1teri.1ls from boobtores and publishl'f\ in ouc,1~ of women's literature .1nd third v.-orld wcmm including the ,-i~ual o~rh ,md mu~c.

Sponsors Office for Women's Resources and Scnoict.., - UIUC YWCA of the Uni\'l'rsity cA' Illinois Illinois Humanities Count if Afriun Stud~ Prow .1m Afru-American Studies o1nd Re!>eolr<:h Progr.lm Center for Asian Studies Center for Latin Amt'fican and C.-.ribbl.•an Studrt~ 1\lini Symposia for Womt·n La Cua Cultural Latina Native American Support Group Organization Fund Advi!.OrV Board Office of Women in lntemationo1l Development Office of Women's Studies Student Organization Resource Fee Unit for Criticism, School of Hum.:mities

Contributors Church Women United McKinley Foundation National Organization for Women United Church Foundation Wesley Foundation Women in English Women Students' Union Women's Studies Student Organization Othet- University of Illinois ~partments and c:ommunity organizations

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

SATURDAY, April 9 -...., Pre-conferen<:e t,.o\·ents. ro-sponwred with the

African literature Association Annual Conference, April 6-9, 1983 __ .. ______ ,, - -··

1:00 • 5:00 p.m.:

6:00p.m.:

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~ation Film .mel ~ion: Sar.-.h ALIIdoror ~~t. Director. ''leninlt'<Kfs ~~~- lin Frmcht

o;...,. \\'ric~Jrne Addr~!ol'S -­l~hd ll'fdiff. Chi!e

SUNDAY, April tO 8:30-10:00 ~ PI mary ~sion

Ftminism: Crau-Culturil Pmpectives MOCiollepula Ch.b.\ku. South Africa Glorialo<>cph. United States ln!lle 1\.'Llck. United Slates!Menominee Bo:renice Carroll, UJ-.itcd States Gloria AnzaldUa;, United States. ~'loder.ltortOiscuss-ant

10:30. 12:00 noon: Rou~bles and Workshopi 111 Cmo.s--Cuhural femini~ Per!iK'cti\1.'\:

Respom.e!. to PICI'Idl)' ~sirn 1"1\.t.ldhu Sen. :ndia: "Leith Mullings, United Stah.>i: R<X.l Gam.lna·Thompson. Pt'fu, ,\\oderaton

1.!1 \\'hire Women Conirontin~ R.Ki~m !luli.l h"-ot~. United St.lte<ol

1 h Bl.lt!.. Women .1nd Femini~m lhdm Btrn\n, United StJtl"\1

.~, lnvi\tbiltt\; oi N.lli\'l' .-\mt"tic.m \\'om('fl in the \\'ort'll'fl'~ .".\n\('ft1(Yif!Beth Brant. Umted Slal'-"loo.\\oh.mi.J

1 ~~ Crn~ .. i"J; Cultur.ll Boui'I(Ltrit~: RC"C,uch ..1nd EdiKation t'IJfll'l B.tut'f. Unitl'(l Statt";l

THEME: COLONIZATION AND RESISTANCE 1:10-3:00 p.m.: i'.u~:h

Womm in Rn·olutiocury Movftnmts "Po1tricia St-rp.~~. El Soll,·.ulor :-.;.-.,enoh Tohidi. lr.m Dl.lmilol Oliu...,i, Morocco "Winona Ladulc.•, Unill'll Stat~'Ani,hin.lllt.' R.J\"a Oullol~l.'\·<,J,.n-.-.. United S!.lll":> M.ui.1 Sil\'.l, Ecu.ltlor. Modcrafor.Di"Cu~...-.nt Women~ I~ World's Poor • Roun.-.q J..1h.1n. Bo1.nRI..lll~ M,uy Holln<.Ceint'l', P'flilippi~ Neuma Agui..1r, Br..1zil "f..1ve H.urison, Unik'd Stall~ G.lyatri Ch.tkr..1\'0IIy Spi\"ak, India, Modcr.ator:OiKus~nl

3:10- S:OO p.m.: Roundt.lWn .and \\'or~ Ill Refugees .lnd hil~ llutlith S.mlm., Chik•l 1.!1 Women Migrants .and Refu~".o tRoz

Oii:bon. Unittod St.at~l Ut Women's Work: Oomco.tic and ARricuJtural

!Nt>uma Aguiar, Br.uih 141 land Issues ior Nath.·c Americ.m~ t"\\'inona

Laduke. United Stall~Ani~hin.tlx-1 151 Women in Crime: Puni\lung the Victim

tlwnita R.lmo5-, United Stolle:>) lbl Proslitution and Sl.l\"e Trade ISuchcl.l

M.u:urndar, lndi.:d 171 The Trail from Matll.'s PhiiO'>Ophy ui

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13) Women'5 Publislling ll~~o Chenif Moraga,, United Quintanates; Uni!UI Sea --·

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Media and Music Presentation Films: To love, Honor and Obey, Christine Choy, 1980 One Way or Another, Sara Gomez, 1977 You Have Struck a Rode, Deborah May, 1981 South Africa Belongs to Us, Chris Austin, 1980 My Viii. Women, lalla Abou-Saif, 1975 Rm1pads of Clay, Jean:touise Bertucelli Poetry Readinss: Carmen Pursifull, United Stales Ana Castillo, UniiKI Slates Gloria AnzaJdua, United Stales Nellie Won& United States Beulah Brown, Pmatca --""""" -..,, United S.....

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Roundtables .ntt Workshops II) Black Women and Feminism (Chefyl

Johnson, United Sta~l 121 Aral>l~i Dia~ Ill Arts and Cultural Policy !Beulah Brown,

Jamaica} 141 Union Organizing lMaria Silva, Ecuador;

Susan Parenti, United States) 151 Muhinational Corporations in the Third

Wotld (Marianne Brun, Gmnany/Unired Slates}

161 Pride and Prejudice: Major Factoo in Dealing with Differences !Gloria Joseph, United States}

Lunch kEynote Address: To Be Announced Panel b There Ground for Mt International Feminist _ .... •Jnes Rieder, Austria Cheryl Johnson, United St.ates Chandra Talpade Mohanty, India Ann Russo, United States •Heleielh Saffioti, Brazil

· Closiilg Session EvalUations, Speak Out, Dialogue (Violet Malone and Betty Gabehart, United States, Facilillltors)

Conference hNdquarters will be located on the campu1 or the UnWenily of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the lllini Union, 1401 W. ~St., Urbana, IL 61801. fDI' further infonnationabout the conference write the Office for Women'1 Resoun:es and Services at 346 Fred H. Turner Student Services Building. 610 E. John St., Champaign, IL 61820 or call 217·333-3137 Of 217-344-0721.

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There is no registration fee but pre-registration would help us in planning. Meals below must be reserved .mel ~ by April1.

Am making resetVations for these conference meals:

__ (number) S8.35 per person, Saturday, April 9, Dinner, 6 p.m.

--(number) S6.25 per person, Wednesday, April13, Lunch, 12:15 p.m.

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Need further information on: 0 area housing and child care (enclose S T .00 for postage

and handling; make checks payable to: Conference CGmmittee 011 Third World Womon)

0 Exhibitor information !bookstores and publishers in areas of women's literature and third world women including visual arts and music)

MAIL TO: Common Differences Conference, %- Office for Women's le5ources n Services, 346 Studmt Services, 610 East John SL, Chompoip1, IL 61820.

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Dear Raya:

May 2, 1983

Thank you so much for your contributions to the Common Differences Conference. It was, as we had hoped, an unusual and significant event which provoked a lot of discussion and debate. More than 800 people from all over the United States, and from over forty different countries registered for the conference. It was truely intercultural and interna­tional in terms of audience as well as the speakers.

As you know, we plan to publish the proceedings, and ask that you (if you have not done'so already) sign the enclosed form about publication rights, and also send us your paper(sl. and summaries of workshops and roundtable discussions. We need at least an abstract or a draft ~ediately in order to structure the scope and boundaries oJ; the books, and to adequately negotiate with the publishers.

With reference to your.honorarium and expenses, if you have turned in your forms you should have received your checks(.sl, or will do so in the near future. In case you have not sent us the forms, we are enclosing these too.

Once again, than.k you for making this c•'>nference a memorable event. We are in the process of compiling a list of all the people who attended the conference, and will be happy. to mail you a copy if you would like one. Arrangements for transcibing tapes are also under way, It was very exciting to meet and speak with you at the conference, We will keep in touch-~o.d hope you too will write or call us.

Sincerely,

aM-~ Ann Russo Conference Coordinator

~ft:::~~~t)-Conference Coordinator

AR:CTM/ksc

May 6, 1983

Dear c handra and Ann:

Raya just returned this week from the most exhaustive and rigorous (but exciting) lecture tour she bas ever bad. She went to a cottage in canada for a week of absolute rest which was mandatory -- but before abe did, she asked me to send off the questionairre that was waiting for her from the YWCA. I'm enclosing a copy of it, so you can see what she wrote for them.

The transcript of her talk was also waiting for her when she returned, and she has taken it with her to work on the editing just as soon as she can manage it. She asked me to. tell you that she will try to meet your May 15 deadline tor handing in the papers-- but that she may not be able to. '

· meet· it, Bin~e it giTes her only a bare week, aloJJg with ali' . !f· ,~be other tasklhOlre wtitiJlg for her. If it is JJot in you' · ·

· hallcl8. by the 15th, it will surely be there before the 30th.

It was great to bear all the reports of your ·,:,·.,.. .

. contereJJce ~~~ those who were there. Sorry I couldn't haie · been OJle of them. We may yet meet in person -- but UJJtil the!!,,

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A talk by

Marxist ·Humanist philosopher

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Marxism and Freedom and

Philosophy and Revolution (Both reprinted in 1982 by

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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON

WISCONSIN CENTER AUDITORIUM

" Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution•'

•Presents the unknown feminist dimension of Rosa Luxemburg and examines her relevance for today's Women's Liberation Movement as internationalist, as theorist, as revolutionary, as anti-militarist.

* Issues a challenge to all previous interpretations of Marx and Marxism in her conception of "post-Marx Marxists," beginning with Engels, who do not fully develop Marx's Marxism, his revolution-in-permanence.

Co-sponsored by: Women's Studies Program, German Department, History Department, Sociology Department, and the off-campus Committee to Stop Militarism

For more information about Ms. Dunayevskaya'a midwest lecture tour, contact New• and Letters Committees, 220 South State, Room 1326, Chicago, Illinois 60604 (312/663-0839),

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all sid'es· of the 1ft: table, even behind i-t with Terr.r and me. Even those who didn't buy much. lit lii:I!IIII!E we~e no"li: the unserious types who often. come to a lit table to bend your ear. Terry andi I were swamped, rushing from one outstretched. hand to another tor what seemed like more than a halt honr. ·s·o many peoptEWanted to be· on: the mailing list they were passing it to each' othert We sold' 17 books·, including two orders at'ter we ran out of RLWLMPR, and if we·•d had' more of them, we proba-bly would've sold more. Also I'm sure we would've sold a lot of ''Martinique 11·s, but the· entire. Chicago supply was· exhausted. Besides the books, what sold!. beat were: things about ~IL and· about rl!'Volutiona in other countries, as well as some 25-year histories. What didn't sell was lit spe-

\cffica.lly about the Black dimension (the audience was over 95% White). It was· very exciting, and I hope ~'e can make it the beginning of · ~ solid organizational presence in Madison.

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No longer than an hour after setting foot in Salt Lake City, Raya was being interviewed on the major TV station (KSL) 's

· "Prime Time Access" program. The interviewer tried to make Raya appear as an advocate of "violent" revolution but Raya, was able, in under three minutes, to take the ground of Marx's Humanism as rooted in the Man/Woman relation. When Raya began to talk.about Woman "in" the kitchen 1the interviewer, who is deeply connected to the patriarchial Mormon Church hierarchy, signalled that· Raya was to wrap up her statement. He was hostile to Raya and refused to hold up RLWLPR.

The next stop was to the KSL radio talk show that is beamed out to thirteen states. The interviewer gave Raya a lot of time to develope her ideas and seemed to prefer not to take call-ins but to take the time to learn for himself. The one call-in question was on the "definition of Humanism and God". Raya was well prepared with a quote from Marx which showed not only why atheism isn't an alternative to capitalism, but also how religion has a dual class expression.

On Friday morning, a woman reporter interviewed Raya for the major paper in town, the Salt Lake Tribune. The article is to appear May 1st with a· photo in the "lifestyle" section. (circulation 1,30,000). It will contain, we hope, Raya's discussion of the American roots of Marxism and Feminism. I hope the readers will be as impressed as I was at hearing

·the Iraniam Women's Ajumen jammed against today's ERA. The total view of freedom in the Woman's Movement Raya presents ce~trasts sharply with the truncated vision of the Women's Re'source Center Conference which was on campus at the same time. However, 'we did draw people from the conference to R~ya's talk who were serious about women as thinkers.

The talk itself drew an overflow crowd of 1?5 that did bring people from the community at large as well as from academia. The talk was warmly and enthusiastically applauded and half the audience stayed for 45 minutes of questions.

'The most dramatic moment was when a Polish Women sought to confront Raya with the "fact" that "marxism had resulted in the horrible Polish State". Raya was ready to respond on the basis of over fourty years of participation. The question I appreciated the most was the simple "W!'Iat is Permanent Revol­ution?". Literature sales were $1,34.00, mostly in books, and a few pamphlets.(DoL, Polish, N&L, 25yrMH, IranPPL).

Not only most exciting, but organizationally most prom1?1~g, as we look towards our constitutional convention, are the following consequences for my work in this crucial period for Marxist-Humanist growth. First, 5 people are interested in forming a serious study group on the r\ew book after hearing

··'a summation by Ray a after the talk. Second, that combined with .·the possibility of a translation into Spanish of a Chapter of

the new book. Third, the perspective of the possibility of a .. new local. Raya's trip, far from being an experience in total

isolation, was so successful that we did achieve M-H organizational results. · ·

Yours, PS 1 Pot-Luck. on Friday( 20) ~ New friends who may help in Germany. New book on ' Ted Native Americ·an Women as gift to Raya.

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Karl Marx centenaRt FOUNDER OF MIFIST -HIJ.IANI91 TO GiVE LECTURE ON APRIL 15

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of Technology Program in Science, Technology and Society, and Robert Lekeachman, Distinguished Professor of Economics, City Uni.versity of New . . York. A conference on Race and Gender is scheduled for Memorial Day weekend.

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PERA Department of Economlca Unlveraltv of Utah April 11 ,1983 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Raya Dunayevskaya founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States,

and author of Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's

Philosophy of Revolution, wi.ll deliver a special Centennial lecture

for Karl Marx entitled: "New Moments in Marx's Last Decade". Her

lecture on the University of Utah campus is scheduled for: Friday,

April 15 at 2:00pm in Business Lecture Hall 101. This special

Centennial Lecture for Karl Marx is sponsored by the Political Economy

Research Association and ASUU, For more information, call the Economics

Department at the University of Utah,

Feminist to speak F~iday at U Raya Duna~kaya, like the feminist Rosa wo~king_as-I:co_Trotsk_y's Russian Secretary

Luxc~bu~g who Dunayevskaya has written dunng his exile ~ Mcx1co. about tn a recently published book has throwu- . Dunaycvsbya 15 on a tour of30cities,and will her 72 years of cxistepce '."orvhc scales of speak at the University Friday at 2 p.m. in Bu L destiny," fighting-8gainst male chauvinism lOL Sponsored by the economics depanmcnt attacking prejudice undercurrents agains; a_nd the Political Economic ·Research Associa­blacks, participating in ll.bor movements and non,hertopicwiii~"NcwMomentsinMarx•s

Last Decade." ·--------A Centennial Lecture for Karl Marx 1 0 B DESERET NEWS, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1983

New Moments. in Marx's Last Decade • On Man/Woman • On Historical Accumulation • On Underdeveloped Countries

RayaDunayeuskaya Friday

Aprll15 2:00p.m. Business Lecture Hall101

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Marxist says Soviets stray from the path By Valerie Schulthies

·Oeseret News staff wnter

Wbat goes under the name o! : Marxism in the Soviet Union is the

' total opposite-of real Marxism, says the founder o! the philosophy o! Marxist humanism.

Raya DunaYevskaya spoke at the University of Utah Friday, in com· memoration of the Karl Marx Cente­nary. Marx. the author o[ the philoso­phy on which Lenin based the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, died in London 100 years ago. ·

Ms. Dunayevskaya said what has developed in the Soviet Union is not what tl'.arx espoused.

"It is what we call state capital· ism, what Marx called 'vulgar communism."'

She said Marx did not believe the working classes could free them­selves by exchanging private prop-­erty lor state property, as the Rus­

.sians did.

Marx called his philosophy a new hwnanism:. she said, and he envi­sioned a process o! "revolutioa in

permanence;· or continuous revolu­tion, to estabhsh "totaDy new human relations where man-woman will be as important on a different level as tbe whole class struggle."

Marx believed women were im­portant in all revolutions, not·only as mimeograph machine operators, but as thinkers and decision makers. and he made them leaders in his organi· zation. Ms. Dunayevskaya said.

Too many revolutionaries after him. however, were chauvinists. she

. said. They used their political el!orts as a prete.xt for continuing to subor­dinate women. saying the social rev­olution must come firsl

Ms. Dunayevskaya was born in 1910 in the Ukraine and grew up in a village torn between the White Army and the Bolsheviks. Her family emi­grated to Chicago in 1924.

She became Leon Trotsky's secre­tary during his exile in Mexico in 1937 and 1938, but sb• broke with Trotsky whea she developed the the­ory o! state capitalism. Sbe proceed­ed to work out the philosophy of Marxist hwnanism.

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Roya Dunoyevskaya was,deeply· lU Involved In reJ:nlnlsl llberaUon long :, P1 ~ berore II became recognl~ed ps q '.. Sh formal movemer1t, s~e clat~· , -.A.··i e•

As the rounder or '.'Maro~<lst-lfio, :. f. , manlsm".ln the Untied Slates, equal.~· '\ relollonsblj)s betw~li · m~.o · and .;:?~jl women have alwa s bi!~n a. lunda- ~-· .!v.J mental principle orber.pbllosopb~, '.\~.J..'il

Ms. Dunoyevskaya, 72, bas donqt;.~ liP' cd muro lhon 40 years or her Yfo '''· 'R!

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Jhilosophy nd le~turlng ri .. earch Anoela\)on and the Assi>· >phy ·~ a re- :ctalcd Studenli'oi'ttili u. ·01 U. il was "do lbelr Pwn thinking" and •uppc)r Humanism" one ol 50 lectures she's given In 30 tho philosophy ol "tho movemer I~ the last cltiOJ slncp Eebruary and tho llrsl from ~ractice." .

·r Marxists. part ol May~ She planned to be with The latter Is not necessarily i I continuous her hUS~IOd ae lhel~ homo Ia Do- exclusive group, she cautioned adc ow~ words, troll, ,Mlcp.,LJo cetebr~Le lh¢ cc,ite- lng . .thai "thinkers" con be ioun 1~1', . · . nary ol Karl Mar•··~" Mays: among all classes, races and envr •po~~d ber . )r'oua1 II'Y91rl'll&h10-y .; , , ronments. vs In ~all As a student In Chtc!a'go'durln~ lhe' !-•ora From Ills tory as a guest tP20s, Ms. J:>.unnycvskaya's early! Besides suggesting that the scop. tr ol: Utob, re~olullonary phtiosophlos Involved• ol the A/llerlcan women's ·move '· Ecooomy her 'In• demonslrattons ·•lor blac~; ment kbroad0ned, Ms. Dunayevs

freedom and labor rights.· In 1937,• kaya also cautions that supporter: she moved lo Mexico to become the should be well-versed In the hlslor) private secretary to Leon. Trotsky, of ~omen's movements. taking tht then ~riled from Russia. Sho broke opportunity to learn from their With him shortly lherealler and de·• gains and losses.

. veloped h~r own lheci(Y o(!~te-c~p- One such e>nrnple, she adds, Is the llallsm. •· :· · 1 11 ' ,... • • subject ol her latest work R

From thal point,'·Ms. Dunayev~-~ LuzernbUro, Women's Libe~~~ ,kaya said, she has spent /llUcb Umeltion1 olld Mnrr's f'lriloso/JIIV OJ applylpg her phll~sophy ol Mqrxlst-. Revolulfo11. ' · Humanism In• the United Slates 'on "R · p · labor; the black dimension· and. osa was a •!Ish-German-In· women's llber•IJoq ·I· tcroaliooal r~volullonary. Besides

, .• ' ;" · being alemlnlsl, she was atheorJlJ. . S~IJ•!t• P,raqdenlnr l"ue · · clan and ail orator. She did not want

As lor t~e Am~rlcan movement,' lobe' aligned with just one sub joe~ lor equality on U1e basts ol sex; Ms. Like Rosa, .. women today have to Dunayevskaya questions Its scope. ,lear,n about the_ phl!osop~y-ol revo-

:.(.~~:·.;.: . IU~bout tho phJiosopby Of al t~""" movements. Tl1ey shouldn't

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o be· one.

dlvlsh•e. Ms. Dunayevskay~ rcsearchec lhla latest of ~ovcral publlcatloru over the laottO years, she said. She has published •three fllljor ; book> since 1958 - Alai:r;'s Plliloropl<u OJ Reuolullo11: Mar:rlsm and Free· dam .:.... From 1178 UnJU. Today and Pllifosopl1y anti Reuolullon, Jr addition to Rosa· l..u:remburo· an< sev.eral widely-circulated pam· phlels. Her writings have beer. lr~nslated . ·Into Germnn,. French. Italian, Japanese and Spanish, wit~ some Chinese, Polish, Russian and Fotsl translations circulated under· ground. ' · IVrlllnJ• In Archives .

More than 7,000 pages olthc phi· losopher's published wrllings, re­aearch notes and porxonal docu· inehts gathered over tho la•t 40 ye~rs are preserved In the Wayne .Stole University Labor Arcldvcv Detroit, under the IIllo 11re Ri1uu Dunavevskaua Cullection -Ma.r.•lst-1/umanfsrn lu t11e Unll· et1 States. IU41to To<lav.

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Dear Friends,

The Seattle'stop of the national tour brought to a climax one chapter of "have thumb, will travel" for the West Coast which is sure to have ramifications for the future, Raya's talk on "Roaa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of RevolutioD" at the University of Washington on April 18 was attended by 70

1 fifteen of whom signed the mailing list for further contacting,

Those present included young feminists, students who had re­cently organized committees against the draft a_nd i'ntervention in El sa~vador, and professors interested in Raya's works, Total lit sales for the meeting came to $63,75--which includee not only five copies of the books but also 1 an array of much of our pamphlets, the 25 Year History and Luxemburg's Theory and Practice in particular, Clearly, Raya's tour excites interest and sales in the full body of our literature,

The lecture was preceded by several days of intensive work·in Seattle. This included an interview with Raya on KRAB Radio, where Raya expanded (despite a hostile interviewer) on Luxemburg's break. with Kautsky, the new contribution of today• s WLM, and the relation of youth to revolution, Prior to Raya's arrival a number of sub~ scmbers to N&L were contacted, and while several who have kn'own us for a while attended the lecture, there is no doubt th*t the hope of building a Marxist-Humanist presence in the city depends not so much on they as .upon the new generation of students who attended the t:lllk

1 and who were most excited about it afterwards,

Raya•s talk presented the Martian concept of •revolution in permanence• as the red thread unifying all parts of the.book, Thus, the audience saw how Marx's labor of digging into new concepts of .freedom connected with the actual emergence of new subjects of rev- . elution (especially Women's Liberation and the Black Dimension), thereby illuminating the task that needs development today, Raya presented · a new view of the inseparability of the new momenta of Marx's last dec.ade from those of his first through a look of his writings on the Black dimension, 1848-82, From that flowed as well some beautiful formulations on Marx• s relationship to language, where· we saw Mar.x as critical of all words unexpressive of human freedom just as words for him became windows of communication between the Idea of revolution and the Subject of revolution,

While follow-through is cert*inly ~ must for the saattle area, we can be under no illusions that the kind of intensive 'have thumb' activities of the year past can become a permanent feature, when you

. consider the distance and expense involved, Rather than that limiting us, .however, it demand a that the We at Coast (and indeed all locals that had talks in outlying areas) develop new relations through corr•

.. ,,eiapondence. Thus, within a month of the tllk a letter will be aen.t :toeachnew parson mat, asking them for raaponaa to the talk.and lf.t

. ·bought W inviting them to extend their introduction to Marxht• · ,Humanism by participating in the disauaaion around and/or attending

our Constitutional Convention, Since the ideas they heard atl the lecture will be •written into• the document of a revolutionary organ• '. •'

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Jhilosophy nd le~turlng ri .. earch Anoela\)on and the Assi>· >phy ·~ a re- :ctalcd Studenli'oi'ttili u. ·01 U. il was "do lbelr Pwn thinking" and •uppc)r Humanism" one ol 50 lectures she's given In 30 tho philosophy ol "tho movemer I~ the last cltiOJ slncp Eebruary and tho llrsl from ~ractice." .

·r Marxists. part ol May~ She planned to be with The latter Is not necessarily i I continuous her hUS~IOd ae lhel~ homo Ia Do- exclusive group, she cautioned adc ow~ words, troll, ,Mlcp.,LJo cetebr~Le lh¢ cc,ite- lng . .thai "thinkers" con be ioun 1~1', . · . nary ol Karl Mar•··~" Mays: among all classes, races and envr •po~~d ber . )r'oua1 II'Y91rl'll&h10-y .; , , ronments. vs In ~all As a student In Chtc!a'go'durln~ lhe' !-•ora From Ills tory as a guest tP20s, Ms. J:>.unnycvskaya's early! Besides suggesting that the scop. tr ol: Utob, re~olullonary phtiosophlos Involved• ol the A/llerlcan women's ·move '· Ecooomy her 'In• demonslrattons ·•lor blac~; ment kbroad0ned, Ms. Dunayevs

freedom and labor rights.· In 1937,• kaya also cautions that supporter: she moved lo Mexico to become the should be well-versed In the hlslor) private secretary to Leon. Trotsky, of ~omen's movements. taking tht then ~riled from Russia. Sho broke opportunity to learn from their With him shortly lherealler and de·• gains and losses.

. veloped h~r own lheci(Y o(!~te-c~p- One such e>nrnple, she adds, Is the llallsm. •· :· · 1 11 ' ,... • • subject ol her latest work R

From thal point,'·Ms. Dunayev~-~ LuzernbUro, Women's Libe~~~ ,kaya said, she has spent /llUcb Umeltion1 olld Mnrr's f'lriloso/JIIV OJ applylpg her phll~sophy ol Mqrxlst-. Revolulfo11. ' · Humanism In• the United Slates 'on "R · p · labor; the black dimension· and. osa was a •!Ish-German-In· women's llber•IJoq ·I· tcroaliooal r~volullonary. Besides

, .• ' ;" · being alemlnlsl, she was atheorJlJ. . S~IJ•!t• P,raqdenlnr l"ue · · clan and ail orator. She did not want

As lor t~e Am~rlcan movement,' lobe' aligned with just one sub joe~ lor equality on U1e basts ol sex; Ms. Like Rosa, .. women today have to Dunayevskaya questions Its scope. ,lear,n about the_ phl!osop~y-ol revo-

:.(.~~:·.;.: . IU~bout tho phJiosopby Of al t~""" movements. Tl1ey shouldn't

. just work on a single Issue."

o be· one.

dlvlsh•e. Ms. Dunayevskay~ rcsearchec lhla latest of ~ovcral publlcatloru over the laottO years, she said. She has published •three fllljor ; book> since 1958 - Alai:r;'s Plliloropl<u OJ Reuolullo11: Mar:rlsm and Free· dam .:.... From 1178 UnJU. Today and Pllifosopl1y anti Reuolullon, Jr addition to Rosa· l..u:remburo· an< sev.eral widely-circulated pam· phlels. Her writings have beer. lr~nslated . ·Into Germnn,. French. Italian, Japanese and Spanish, wit~ some Chinese, Polish, Russian and Fotsl translations circulated under· ground. ' · IVrlllnJ• In Archives .

More than 7,000 pages olthc phi· losopher's published wrllings, re­aearch notes and porxonal docu· inehts gathered over tho la•t 40 ye~rs are preserved In the Wayne .Stole University Labor Arcldvcv Detroit, under the IIllo 11re Ri1uu Dunavevskaua Cullection -Ma.r.•lst-1/umanfsrn lu t11e Unll· et1 States. IU41to To<lav.

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April 19 1 1983

Dear Friends,

The Seattle'stop of the national tour brought to a climax one chapter of "have thumb, will travel" for the West Coast which is sure to have ramifications for the future, Raya's talk on "Roaa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of RevolutioD" at the University of Washington on April 18 was attended by 70

1 fifteen of whom signed the mailing list for further contacting,

Those present included young feminists, students who had re­cently organized committees against the draft a_nd i'ntervention in El sa~vador, and professors interested in Raya's works, Total lit sales for the meeting came to $63,75--which includee not only five copies of the books but also 1 an array of much of our pamphlets, the 25 Year History and Luxemburg's Theory and Practice in particular, Clearly, Raya's tour excites interest and sales in the full body of our literature,

The lecture was preceded by several days of intensive work·in Seattle. This included an interview with Raya on KRAB Radio, where Raya expanded (despite a hostile interviewer) on Luxemburg's break. with Kautsky, the new contribution of today• s WLM, and the relation of youth to revolution, Prior to Raya's arrival a number of sub~ scmbers to N&L were contacted, and while several who have kn'own us for a while attended the lecture, there is no doubt th*t the hope of building a Marxist-Humanist presence in the city depends not so much on they as .upon the new generation of students who attended the t:lllk

1 and who were most excited about it afterwards,

Raya•s talk presented the Martian concept of •revolution in permanence• as the red thread unifying all parts of the.book, Thus, the audience saw how Marx's labor of digging into new concepts of .freedom connected with the actual emergence of new subjects of rev- . elution (especially Women's Liberation and the Black Dimension), thereby illuminating the task that needs development today, Raya presented · a new view of the inseparability of the new momenta of Marx's last dec.ade from those of his first through a look of his writings on the Black dimension, 1848-82, From that flowed as well some beautiful formulations on Marx• s relationship to language, where· we saw Mar.x as critical of all words unexpressive of human freedom just as words for him became windows of communication between the Idea of revolution and the Subject of revolution,

While follow-through is cert*inly ~ must for the saattle area, we can be under no illusions that the kind of intensive 'have thumb' activities of the year past can become a permanent feature, when you

. consider the distance and expense involved, Rather than that limiting us, .however, it demand a that the We at Coast (and indeed all locals that had talks in outlying areas) develop new relations through corr•

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T he Moral Majoriry may have good cause to be wary.

Raya Dunayevskaya doesn't just preach the "religion of

secular humanism'' -the revolutionary feminist takes it a step further with a body, of ideas she calls ''Marxist-humanism.''

Her philosophy is based on what Marx called ··a new humanism" founded on the <ociery goal of "revolution in perfor­mance.'' Marx envisioned constant relca!ies of human creativity caused by conrinual self-development.

Dunayevskaya is not only the major proponent of Marxist humanism in the Uniled Scares: she is also the only woman to head lhl~ American Marxist organiza­tion. Dun:1yevskaya has fought sexism and elitism in the Left as well as society in general.

Dunayevskaya 's latest book is !he srory of the overlooked feminist Rosa Luxem­burg, a Marxist theoretician who took lhe German Social-Democratic Party by sur­prise wirh her entrance in 1898. Ouna­yevskaya will speak on Marxist huma­nism and her book Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philos­ophy of Revolution April IS ar7:30 p.m. in the HUB Auditorium.

Since coming to the U.S. from Russia 60 years ngo, Dunayevskaya participated in demonstrations, labor and Black free­dom movemenrs. Her orher books include Philosophy and Revolution and Marxism and Freedom.

Rosa Luxemburg w•s prompled by three evenrs: The first was the transcrir tion of Marx's last work, Ethnologica Nottbooks, illuminaling his first historic/ philosophic concepl of man/woman and

his concept of permanem revolution. The second was "the transformation of

the Women's Liberation as an idea whose time had come into a worldwide move­menL ..

The third imperus was a "global cli­max'' of crises making a ''need for a rotally new society based on 1ruly human foundations.''

Dunayevskaya first srudied Marx to find a way out of a ''state·capitalist' · world, and her interpretations challenge post-Marxisr thought.

The aim of revolurion, she says, should be to restructure human relationships and lift work from the realm of drudgery to a rewarding·crcative process.

''Instead of grappling with the working out of a philosophy of liberty for our age, theoreticians look only ~or 'root causes' of oppression. This is ~ood, but hardly good enough,'' shesa1d in her Rosa Lux­emburg introduction.

Luxemburg was an activist as revolu­tionary as Dunayevskaya herself. At 22 she was the editor of the Workers' Cause, Poland's underground Marxist newspa· per. At 26 she joined the German Social Democratic Party, but faced double dis­crimination as a Polish woman. Less than a year later she published Reform of Revo­lution which, according to Duna­yevskaya, became the ''classic answer to revisionism.''

The party lried to limit her to lhe ''women's question,'' but Luxemburg wouldn't allow herself to be pigeonholed, declaring herself' 'a land of boundless possibilities."

Luxemburg believed she was the pupil of Marx who should carry on with work he had left unfinished. She considered volume two of Capital unfinished, . because Mux had died before its publica-

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In 1913, she published Accumulation of Capital, A Contribution to an E:xplana­tron of Imperialism, a 450-page treatise. Luxemburg believed she was "rreading new ground, where none, not even Marx, had ever been before."

Dunayevskaya's selecrion of Luxem· burg as the subject of. her newest book is no surprise-she, too, feels she is ''treading new ground."

Dunaycvskaya declares that it is neces­sary to uproot ''this exploitative, sexist, racist society,'' and believes in the ''cre­ation oft he new, not just the reorganiza­tion of the objective, material foundations but the release of subjecrive p;rsonol free­dom, creativity, and lalents. '

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Dear Friends,

The lectures presented by Raya in the Bay Area, at "liberal" Cal Berkeley on April 20 and at "conservative" Stanford University on· April 21, underlined the differences bet~een ~hat our expectations h~d been (facing budget cut• and the oft-repeated dictums about "quiescent:• youth) and what proved to be tr•1e.

The audience at Berkeley numbered 150, primarily students--both new a~d older friends--as well as a significant off-campus attendance (including an old friend from '40s labor struggles here, and a long-time subscriber who had

'never come to any Marxist-Humanist event before, to name only two.) They heard a lecture in which Raya interwove Narx's revolution in permanence with Women's Liberation, the Black Dimension, and the Third World in such a remarkable way-­including a new. expression of Marx's concretization of Hegel's generalization of Spirit in Self-Estrangement confronting the inversion of thought and reality-­that it ~s certainly new to Marxist-Humanists as well as to those who heard Raya for the first time, While the discussion period was quite limited, altogether some $75 in literature-was bought, including 4 copies of RL'iLKM (and .~any who came had previously bought the book), and 15 new p~ople signed a list for more discussion.

~ Raya's afternoon lecture at Cal had been preceded by a noon meeting with a dozen people from the Slavic Studies Department who asked about Raya's inter­pretation of Luxemburg's feminist dimension, the situation in Poland to~y, and. Raya' s relationship and break with Trotsky. In answer to the latter, ~¥!L gave a wide-ranging discussion of the break and the development of the trilogy- of . revolution. · One stud<!nt insi.;tod tha''· a seminar on compax·ative Communism,· being conducted at the same time, definitely should have invited Raya to be their main speaker.

The difference between the two lecture audiences became immediately evident the ngxt day in t!le excitement of the· youth at Stanford. Raya began the afternoon-· there by speaking to a class or 75 first-year students in a program of · Liberal Education" surveying "11estern" ideas. She brake down those 2 false

. of "western" and "structure" by develop~ng Marx's relationship to the Third the Black Dimension and America's First.Unfinished Revolutionr and dialectical structure which is informed by the movement· from p~~ctice as elaborated in capital and~· The questions from students and-faculty ranged frcm whether Marx was a feminist or was that something Raya had "extrapolated," to whether a world revolu­tion was ·necessary to realize Marx's prtnciples in. "pure" form, '.lhile many of .. the students were hearing ideas, and even historical events and names, for the first' time, they hardly felt "overwhelmed", and !n fact many came to have dinner with Raya and attended the eve11ing lecture on "Women as Thinkers and Revolutionaries."

The excitement carried over to that lecture, with over 100 attentively fo:~~c'w:~~-:~J;:.~ ing Raya's powerful talk. Of the $115 in literature sales, $85 represented of ths trilogy and 16 ·signed a list for a -campus dhcussion group, . Rays' 8 ~e,ct<lre·,, ;:if' and the exci temant on the part of the Stanford youth in turn had an en•~rs:i~:lng impact: on Marxist-Humanists, as we had underestima'ted the response at ;;t.anJcoJ:u, l(e thererore warit to project regular visits to Stanford beginning in May, as ·an_ ;, . extension· of the perspective ot eXpanding our activity beyond the immediate local ' area.

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' duality and needed development: and that since the focal point of all our ac-. tivi.ty is the constitutional convention, we need to not give first reactions but

know its significance well ahead, through the most intense discussion period, While she did not go into the subject in depth, Raya did raise the convention in such a way that it was integral to, and transcended, the lecture tour, The full summation in LA, to which we will all be going, will therefore be crucial to beginning the. discussion and all our activities here in May,

I will be leaving ·Nay 2 for J weeks, but I am sure all the new ideas, new f:r:tends, and new excitement created by Raya's tour here will mean new developments on the pa:r:t of all Marxist-Humanists in the Bay Area during the month of Nay,

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During aa~'s tour in the Bay Area as well as from the beginning and across the country, a very different response from women has been forthcoming. Here, I just ~ant to refer to se~ral questions which came up at Stanford, in particular, from a professor who teaches a course in "feminist theory", Her question concerned what \las Marx's treatment of women's labor, and brou()ht out the fact that in "aca­demia" for certain Engels (and his current adherents) and not Marx is presented as "Marxist feminism",

Raya replied that. Marx wrote on women's factory labor, and that t~day women's liba~tionists have to d~al with the question en a much higher level instead of b9!.n~ :>innc.:. d1.1Wn to .,...,a~es for housework" or any other su~h subject. She continued that women'o liberation i3 too bound t~ En;ols Ori~in ~f the Famlly which {1} is not Marx's Eth:1:Jloa;1cal N"'tt!b:>or<r, and (2) h:nt revolut.tona.ry feminism aroge Yitbin the left but didn't go on to develop a philsoophy of revolution. She referred tb how in previous lectures she'bouldn't" talk on Luxemburg (ie, the women walked out) and how she had brought out Luxemburg's feminist dimension, a very difficult labor.

' Raya confronted the professor with the fact that women's liberationist theoris·ts i have not gone into what Marx did write and act on women's liberation, developing ·• 1844; Capital Vol. 1; and Dmitrieva, the Paris Commune and Vol. J, It's true you.·. have to interpret Marx for your"age, and in that she reverred to Ch. 12 of~~-

. on post-Marx Marxists including Engels. If we don' tget out of being stuck on;-·· .. "topics" l1ke-.the family a la Engels, we'll never be able to get to anything_.el~Ei,

Raya suggested to-the professor (after sho~ing she was teaching Engels, Marx) how she could instead bring in Marxist-Humanist writings on women' a bibliography of which I enclose, Since so many of Raya • s lectures -. academia7women's studies, I hope you'll feel free to find a way to use

, gra.phy. in whatever way we can intervene and present ~:arxlst-Hilmanism (eg. ·. coining llomen • s Studies Conference) ,

Yours,

RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA is the author of Rosa Luxembprg, Women's Uberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, a provocative, controversial and critically acclaimed work published simultaneously by Humanities Press In the U.S. and Harvester Press In Britain on the the centenary of Karl Marx's death, for · which the publishers also reprinted her two major earlier works, Marxism and Freedom and Philosophy ond Revolution.

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Duna)'evskaya, secretary to Leon Trotsky during his exile In Mexico, Is the founder of Marxist-Humanist philosophy .. In the· U.S. A microfilm cdltlcin of her Archives, ''The Raya DunayeVJkaya Collection," Is hela In the Hoover In· stitution. ·she has 1poken to audiences as diverse as Woat Vlr;lnlan coal miners and: the Hegei'Soelety or America,' ' . . . . ·'.

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Dear Frienrls,

The Southern California leg of the ~ational Tour by Raya produced an intensive series of lectures and interventions that prove without a doubt that Marxist-Humanists are the only ones concretizing the dialectics of liberation into actual ongoing organizational praxis.

Raya gave no less than five lectures in a tour that took her to Santa Barbara and San Diego in addition to Los Angeles. The highpoint as well as that which gave direction to the whole was the May 1 Bay Area/ Los ~ngeles sum-up meeting, which was at one and the same time a pro­jection ahead to the Constitutiofial Convention and-pre•convefitiod'disc­ussion period,

The lectures showed that ''have thumb will travel''• when climaxed by the founders presence, is truly an opening to create new organizational beginnings for Marxist-Humanism, The lecture at UC Santa Barbara ~ntitled ''On the Marx Centenary: ~arx's Relevance to Women's Liberation and the Black Dimension'' drew 80 (many from off-campus) where Raya preanted a view of Marx's Marxism, Marx's roots in the Black dimension, and the s~gnificance as well as limitations of the women's liberation movement of Luxemburg's age, which today's WLM still needs to learn from, The audience heard how even when Luxemburg was "wrong"

·on the "woman question'' it was always in relation to revolution, which. directed Rosa's attention to the Black Dimension which in turn became a reason for her prescient ·break with Kautsky in 1910, The unfinished tasks of today's women's liberation movement then became a vantage point back to the ~t.arxism of ~tarx, from his first break with bourgoise society in 1841 to the developments in his last decade on man/woman, fetishism, Third l~ibrld, and Ethnological l>Otebooks. Over $80 was sold in literature and 15 sJgned the nailing list, Organizational ramific­ations flowed directly from the meeting; one non-student in attendance traveled the 100 miles south to be with us at the May 1 meeting,

Raya spoke at UC San Diego later that week, giving a talk on the same topic--though there was certainly nothing ''repetitive" in the talk, Raya deepened her development on Marx's sensitivity to language from her ~arlier talks to the point of showing how it represented Marx's method of discerning new theoretical departures in the movements from practice of his day, ~w material on the relation of philosophy to organization were heard, especially in relation to the Jogiches/Luxa~burg~ relation, where the significanae·•of their personal break-up was seen •···· . ·· to lie in the different attitudes to the relation of s~nJ;aneity to ·-· organization their relation dislosed, Some iS attended, many of them feminists and youth active in ·anti-militarist work; some of whom :.· first met us·from Michelle and Cyrus' intensive two'day trip to San Diego prior to the lecture, Questions ranged from what is Raya 1 s • relation to anarchism, to relation of socialism to freedom, to what does Marx's Marxism say to today 1 s anti-militarism, One woman asked what Marxist-Humanists had to say to the WLM of today; when Raya re­sponded that philosophy and rootedness in working and Black woman as against any careerism was essential, the woman responded most favo~ably,:, indicating the new relations that can be forged when Part I!I of the new book is posed as essential for an understnndina of Parts I and II .­Over $100 in lit was sold, 40 signed the mailing list, and two from the talk journeyed to Los Angeles for the May 1 meeting.

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The talk the next day at UCLA on "Marx!s Relevance to Today'' drew 70, many of them faculty and young feminists. Raya posed ~arxls relation to today most comprehensively, bringing in the two way road between the U ,S , and Africa both through Frantz Fanon as theoretician and the new Black Miners Union in South Africa as activity. She showed that. no subject of revol~tion develops to fullness without revolution; and that revolution, in turn, creates ever-new compulsion to return on new ground to the philosophic method of ~arx (especially seen after the 1905 revolution) which the revolutions of our age have demanded an. While literature sales at the meeting were scant, 35 signed the mailing list, several expressing interest in helping to form a Marxist-Humanist youth group on the campus, The best question came from a woman who asked how does Marxist-llumanist ideas relate to campus struggles; Raya responded by relating our experience in the Free Speech Movement. Thts womap also attended the May 1 sum-up.

One thing particularly new in this tour was the new interest in Ray~s work shown by B(ack intellectuals, A Black studies professor at Santa Barbara conducted a video-taped interview with Raya on her activity in the Black movement for use in classes and seminars. Raya developed on the full range of her work on the Black movement, from the 1920's work with the ~gro Champion to her relation to DuBois and activity with and break from CLR James, The professor was particularly struck when Raya read from the Archives Guide to show she had •ritten

no less than five important analyses on the "~gro Question" before and after James' noted Resolution of the Minority on the ~sro question. Some of the history related there has neve~ been recorded before, and all locals should make a point of showing the videp-tape, copies of which are n~ beins produced, In addition, a UCLA Professor spoke at

length with Ra)'a on her relation to the Black movement, especially Garvey. And a Black student at the same UCLA talk who read P&R a decade ago · asked two important questions. on the relation of feminism to Black liberatioo, coming to the lit table to buy ACOT after hearing Raya•s an,wer, In all instances, the interest was to discover the roots~and contri~btion of Marxist-Humanism as a tendency within the Black DimensiL-J it shows that further activity in the Black movement, when activity is strictly on Marxist-Humanist ground, can indeed catch more of this interest which represents what is coming from below.

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The attendance was significant not only as ''forces'' but as reason, insofar as many came on the basis of prior study of Marxist-Humanist philosophy, Thus, the visitor from Santa Barbara had read P&R several years ago after seeing a referance to the Sartre chapter in Fromm's work; a UCLA student had read P&R just two weeks before the lecture, and came because she wanted to know ''what kind of acti*ity the writer of chapter one engages in''; and an Iranian visitor from SanUiego had been the first to publish the works of Sultan-Zade, the very revolutionist whose life and work was the centerpoint of discussion by two ~arxist­Humanists at the CIRA Conference, In addition,, three high school students were at the meeting, Thetr presence shows what can be now with this year•~ Constititional Convention, for we are trying to bring a new generation of revolot~onaries into our organization on the basis oE the totality of Marxist-Humanism in a way so concrete as to never be 'over their heads',

Whether those at May 1 were ''old" or ''young''• committed revol~tionists or those still considering ''throwing their lives on the scales of destiny" , the point is that all came, whether consciously or still instinctively, because our organization is the only one striving to positively respond to the challenge to all revolutionists issued by ~farx in his Critique· "o'f the G'ot·h'a' 'Program, That challenge to unite philosophy and organization may not have been followed by the post-Marx Marxists, but there is no dbubt that in this centenary year of Marx's death 2 are facing .up to that task, whether through the lecture tour, the pre-convention discussion period, or the Constitutional Con­vention itself,

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~to-: =~ llldu.a:- .:: ·::::::::::e'!"' phllooopbk:aJ' · lduUam o1 recent ntroducllon to ( For dec:adea · Raya · ~ lfegeJ, yet sliD lllllntalnlnl "Frantz Fanoa, SoweCo llld peralatenUy · and coo· . tbe "kernel" ol Dlalec:tlel, Amerlc:an Blaek 'l'boulbt." alstentllf . insisted on and tra"""'D''jng lurtber to · Raya ~ya II a . freedom ·for VIOIIlfll. Sbe

· lndude Ludwig Feuerbacb'a dynamic · .; ·· •apeaker, .believes :·the current ldeuolmalerlallam. alimulatln& audience Women'a Liberation

ln. ~ rare. UCSB vlalt, diac:uuloa llld ensoJIIng 'ln. Movement baa made . ftava lluDiyeyaUva 1111 "1111 bailie ol ldeu." Sbl llplflcaal Plnlllld madl ,

• • • bu lec:lllnd.lbroueboulllll IIDiqul Cllflll'l~. Sbl !ouader ·or llaralat• world ... a wldl .. ft_ 111 bu · .._ ,_,....., at a .J Humenlem Ia tbl U.S. wW -w • .....,. ~--' live 1 lecture 011 "Tbe aubjecll. Jlloat lmportanUy multitude of apeclal

• · tboucb, u Herbert Man:use womeo's Jll'lllll'8llll - from Ceotmaey ol Karl Marx. laid ol . ''llarxlam llld Women'a We$ at UCLA to Tbe RevoiUIIOIIIIJ! con- Freedom," "(abe) lbon 1be Women's Festival ol "CCG_. ol MlnoriUes and not ODJv !bat Marxian San "'-A's . Center fOI' · Womea" Maoday, April 21. ,, - - ... ~ - -

::7 p.m. A fl doaatloa wiD be economlca -4 pollllca lll'll , Womm a S.tudles; !rom. · tequlllad • ,._ ...._ · lllrouiboul ph ~. but l$rutloall W01111111 .. DaJ ;;. ~.> •· ... -· • : lbat tba.la!llr 11 !racD .1111 .• Cllelntioa at w~ Stale . . Baya. (oae lime aec:retary befllnnlng ...._.,~ ud Unlv.a~Q to lbe B!lrllde,y · ~ ol Leoa TrotUy clurin8 bla polltlca." . : : . . · Womea'a Center. · · . exile hi Mmdc:o belweeo · · For lboe wbo questloa lbe .1837~) II· lbe aulbor ol' Aa a lelcber, abe J!u. efledi~. ol ~·

\ .JII!II*IIUI ''p{llvocatlve llld pn~~e~~ted." a aerlea Ill lbl HumanljD Ill ~ Ibis . ·.crl.ll~al~~· •~claimed aem~nan· \lD. ·~ • lec:lunl cu ai11J .bl~W · · ,.,works," .· l~ke "Boaa Tblnke~a .... · •.. '·,aa4 iaevllab!e. ~."Mid. ..

L11111mbur1, .. Women'a · Revolutloaaries" for · lbe Ql•~ railing; · Buell '11 ·,, Llberatloa. 11n4 .. Mara'a UDIYUII~. ol . lllcblpn- tbiDI ~bat Ba~a. · ·

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Enclosed is information on an event which will take place on April 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the OCen Pavilion II.

· PlClasa a~mounce it durin9' the dates• April 11-20th and on April 22 and April ..4 S".

Thank you very llllleh.

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LECTURE The Centenary of · Karl Marx: . The Revolutionary Consciousness of

Minorities & Women Ray a

Dunayevskaya Author of Rosa L:uxenburg,

. Women's Liberation & Marx's Philosophy of Revolution APRIL.25 • 7:00PM

UCen Pavilion. II $1 Donation

SUPPORT A.S. CULTURAL EVENTS CO-SPONSORED 8'(

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RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA RAYA DUNAYEVSICAYA is the author of Rosa Llllemburg, Women's Uberatlon and Man's Philosophy of Revolution, a provocatlve, controversial and critically acclaimed work published simultaneously by Humanitie> Press ln.the U.S. and Harvester Press in·Britain on the centenary oi Karl Marx's death for which the publishers also reprinted her two major earlier work•. Mar~lsm and Freedom and

·PhlloGOphy and Revolution. ·

Speaking on

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Lectures RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA

Author of Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Libera· tion, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolu!ion.

Tuesday, April 26- 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. University-Student Union, Rm. 318

All WRC activiiies are held in Bungalow C unless otherwise stated.

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A Public Lecture by

Ray a Dunayevskaya.·· on the centenary of the death of

Karl Marx

Free Admission Public Invited ·

···· .·. ··· · "Marx's Relevance to Our Day; ..

. · 'i?*6,n's Liberation and The Black

Haines Hall Room 118

. Wednesday, April 27, 1983

4-6 P.M.

Sponsored by the Department of History. Department of Philosophy. Department of Political ~rl,n.-P. . · '. \M:)men's Studies Program. The Committee on Public Lectures, and The Center for AfrO:.Arnerlcan 5tUOI'es.

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A Public Lecture by

Raya Dunayevskaya

on the centenary of the death of

Karl Marx

Free~fmi:= Public Invited

'~Marx's Relevance to Our Day; Women's Liberation and The

Black Dimension"

Haines Hall Room I I 8 Wednesday, ·April 27, 1983

4-6 P.M. Sponsored by tho Department ol Hlnory•W.H.G.(CPC), Deportment ol Philosophy, Department ol Political Science, Women's Studies Proaram, The Committee on Public Lectures, and The Center lor

Alro·Amerlcan Studies.

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"'on· the Marx Centenary: ··Marx's Relevance to Women's Liberation.

and. the Black Dimension" · Raya Dunayevskaya's talk will focus on the contemporary nature of Marx's Marxism, especially as it relates to the women's liberation and Black liberation struggles. On this hundreth anniversary of Karl Marx's death, she will probe. l~to the content, method and impact of Marx's thought; which she holds to be a New Humanism .. Ms·. '

. Du.nayevskaya Is the author of the re·cently published Rosa Lux.emburg, Women's Liberal/on, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution: She Is also the author of Marxism and ·

Freedom and Philosophy and Revolution.

Thursday, April 28th ·USB 2722 "1 :00 ·p.m ...

-Admission is. Free-sponsored by: A.S. Prog!~mmlng Commission. co-sponsored by Department of Political Science

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Aaya Duniyevakaya, Internationally known Marxlat•Humanlat philosopher and feminist will lecllJre at UCSD. 7 p.m. (2131 482·3787.

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Raya b.una'yevskaya Speaks :~t ucso.' .. · :- Negati~ng Negatior:-s, Marxism

Over: 120. people' from several San Die"So ilniyersities 3nd the comm~nity came Out:. to. ·hear-- MarXist-Humanist Raya Dunayey!kaya speak · on the r~lcva~cc .:or Marx's Marxism to women's liberation and the Black Dimension.

· In her UCSD talk. she stressed the crfi~acy _or Marx's Marxism in terms of undcrstanc:H~I! 'IJ!= . movement r~r women's.libera.tion a.n!!.the siruggle of

:'l.rion;whifcs'fOr' Uhinition on a global ~~;.b8Sis._:. ..... .. .. ..·. _._ .; · ': . She: . .'furllrer: empl)asized the .·.' importaricc-,.ofJhe negation 9f negation. '• .the. cieitive:Jiroccss. or.tiringing forth a :: p!"sl!iVt .al~efliatl~~ to'the·oppa:ession of

. capltaltsm~··:.raclsm~ scxnm. and ··iotaliuirionisiii. Cen.tnil to' this endeavor is.the·orgat'tizaiioi\ai' question, grappled with 'bf tu·~emburg . and currently corirrontii1g revOlUtionaries today as an .issue ..• o£, tb,c.:.:utmost . urgency and· inipoitancc: ·Sfie. sii-essed thi: need for ·lh'orough. on-going self-criticism.

•' .. ':.)''er~~P.s: the mo'st. noteworthy · a-.;hlevemeiit· 'of· Dunayevskaya':s

philosophical approach to Marx'lies in

her success in restoring the dialectic. in all its organic complexity. to · our understanding of Marx's thbught-li dialectic glimpsed, but not completely gragped. by revolutionaries such as Rosa Luxemburg; and mutilated. misused or. at best. misunderstood by many subsequent "Marxists."

Despite some problems early on due to a room scheduling connict that necessilated changin·g thC·Iocation~orthe­Cvent. the overall tone was upbeat. and· stimulating. Following the .official discussion period. many people· remained to carry orl discussions·'with · Raya. members of the Nt~rs & Lt11irs Committee~ an4 each other. '

The event was·sponsor~d by the.A.S . Programing Commissio.n .and co~ sponsored by the Department of Political Science and·· the Women's

. Resource Center._ Raya Dunaycvskaya's latest baok,

Rosa Luxembura, Women's Llbel'}!tlcin, and Marx's P)t!losophy o.r Revolution, fs· available at Groundwork Books. She Is also the .author of Phl1010phy' and Freedom and Marxism aqd Fr~dom.

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