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VOLUME XI: 1981-198~ DIALECTICS OF REVOLUTION: AMERI:CAN ROOTS AllD IICRLD lltlMANIST CONCEPTS, -

INTRODUCTORY NOTE, FOR VOLUM!!! XI

TtJe_.-CJYe'r8ll~titit(·Of_·· tbiii"' vOlume ,··which c-~~~-~---the fo~'-_yearH ,·.: 19_81:.._1985_·; returnS, :co.'_·: the_ birth of -Marxiat-l{ucaniam in_"the, u.s •. when Man:ism'-"ancf Frif!dOm~- from. 1776 Until Today~-: in _195~, da!!l~ed :~t-.a_·:cw~· aiu-·of that 'Work to be .'the--Aan:ican·root• of Marxi.am-and. ita world HulilaniSI:-~ di~uiiS.:.iu~:-._; we~ tiad-:pi'&ct1Cad · xa_~~iz;:~HU::.:-m.:::t · b~fC:-~-::195 ?·~-~-;-. c·.~--\ buc·_we had· foCused at fire_t o~ iho .. theory .whleh s&--oii' state-c&p_ite:U.sm as the new voTld._St&ge of._·cspital:l.am~ a thaory ve .felt. had be"en···prOved.

· ~ by··_ & tbree-:;;:ar-•tud:/ _fr.om origina_l aU.aian aource·a publisheCf.in_ 1942 • .. We hAd noc than· proclaimed Marxist-Humanism in the u.s. aa an import!!lnc. indepcind~Ut~ hJJitor_ic Tendency. ·Even in 1957, although MarxiSm and PrraeldorU waa 1:oOte4_ deeply _tn:·tbe _revol'l.itioil.cry dialectic, owe ha:d ·noc

-a1ngled ouc, aloni.Wit:h the .two t.1ma we-bad Specifie_d~ the t_hiJ;d charac-t_erie tie,:- ~f. .. !6~~:!.~ ~~.!!._~~!_ !~--- .. ·~'ha:-.:d i.A lAt!i:f.ca ---of ___ ~evoluc1.0n.~,_: Tha e _ia uhat ·cha:i•ctertzed every c~p-ter: 0£- ·:he·.-·be•tt~·~_iS ~it -~was_-tracod·.-e_hrO_tigb.~- ··.·~·-·. t:he bia_toric_ peJ:_loda from tht! French Revolution.and the_ AboU.tionlat Movement ·in AlzloS%-iCa, through the 1917 Russian Revolutlo_n, _t;o _the r8volu-tions i~,---.o~ ~:!"1!' _poat-W~ld __ war 11. age~ . ~ _ -

.:~, t-t-"~~·cr;:ption . .-td ... publication of_.~laa' s:-_Cthnolop:ic:al .. Note.bOcttS - _i~'i the· __ l970., _=c!: "provatle'' .. e"~- e_l!!;_!m that.-the new momenta of-Msrx_'s

_:. ·1aet ·decAlt~:bad 11ieu him retur~- ~o-"bis first, 1844 declaration for a_ '.~new bu:maldam," g~eaely ___ deepcn8d now_ that he_ had diScovered __ -the ac.onC-

--~~c :1w8 of capitall•t development~.- _Thia~vie~ _of Marx! a-Marxism~ totality _\C.adc 1t clear ch•t from tbO start,-- itt· the earlY yeara _ wh'!!n he

··had wr1tt8ri hi&· ••critiqU. .-of tha Hegel11tn DialeCtiC.u~··Marx had net only broken _Witb capitallat!l bUt a lao critiqued ·bo~h Feuei:bachinn ·mechanicaL ~teriallam and_ vhat Marx .. ~~~-~~~:~:~~:!~.!~~t-.~~~~-~am.

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zt-: Was. RoSA- -l.!!X.emburs, WorDen 1 o Liberation-~ and -t~i-X' a -Ph:!.lOa'o.ph£-of Revolutian_t.hat_ f1-rat created the category of poat•M!t.rx Marxie'ta .. h~tving begun·-Vith Frec!erick·Engela, and th4t challenr,ad all post-Marx Marxiata-tod.ay _tO. find in Marx' a Marxism "the trail-to the-19808 ·f•r the tr&tu~fOrmatioa. ·ot' reality.rr-ni'ia- became the title ·of our Perspective• Theiaie for _1982, the year that. Rosa Lwc:ernburg, Womcn'e- Libc.ratlon,- .and MArx'• ·Philnaophy of -RevolUtion vee published. I:: .was ,th-:t: -~_oncept _thee chcracter1:zea -_the whole of..-t:his Volume_ XI, which beeins. on the eve of the: -publication of that wort(. and cnda on th:: eve of_ t:he publication of Women';--:.iberat1on and the DialectiC&- of Revolution: Reaching for the

T~ _et~~-r.g ~tl~e of interriatioJialinJ, ttUJ_t perm&aced cbs fou~ ye:ara o! t~~·'!rJ1~.~_:_19'!h:-:l9~~-·:--w~e, d~mone_tra~ed .both .. :l:n .our -theory_ and in ou::- _ac.t._ivity. .Tho voices o2 revolutio~ri·e-a -.in o_ther_ countries ·~ak _ for ·t_h._eO!-tehrea ·_in a bi-linsual bulletin on the unfinhhar:l. Latin American Ravulut1ons; .s translation by Peruvian feminists ·of ''lio~.utii as R~aaon a.nd aa Re\•elutionary Force 11 ; a- pamphlet whe:-6·-t:bo voices 'of Cuat-emalaa. rev­olut1or~~1c:a :1re heat d.; special bulletins an·d' translatiOns: by Iranian

.. exiles. We re-:'Orded,__ aa __ wn ll, __ the ri_ee of women d!saidente ill Ruaaia •• Women' a -Libei:-ationists; _the!! deve lopmenta of -~evolution a·nd ·coUnter-

. 'ravulut!oo. in roliind f our ovpo's_itit.m'"i;o Ia"r.sel I !I totally" ge:'rioC:"1dal 'tn-·:.. vas1on of Lebanon.

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·- Year_·-~::w-··:pUblished -·our p&Jnphl~t-_ o-n-·A";i98o8;..-vs.ew: :::--rne::·c·oaF"i1iii£'r&...:.'". :':',":·~c: .. oc;oc;.o·;;;'··C:•;··,; Gener:,;,l'-strike ·a£·1949-SO-.~i!nd th~ Birth of Marxist-Humanism by. Andy Phillips and ·aaya Dunayevs!taya. The· impulse for this_ ·p&iniphlat-:-h:d.~C~.--::::-----­

_during __ the Mane Centenary-ToUr, when Dilnayevdk&Ya·returr..ed.".tO weat-·ViJ:.:.~ :--81nie, ·where

1 ·ae ·one and the sam= -time,. ahe h:id been-·a-etiva- in_th&c·_~

h1at'?t:1c;:.l949~50 ~trike ~~ had been t~a~lat~ng ·Lenin's Ph:f.lo=ophi:: NOtebookJ!!J • inittit:ing a. thre_e;~vay_~_correapOndat,eG-:.ar_oun_d them v:l~b_- C.I;o.R.. ·J'a~:. !!ttd G't"ace Lee~- (See vOl'Uioe' XII.:£'::..---: 35 J.etiersfr·Ot~l· t_hia corre8pon-d0_nce.) ·· ··- · · -

- .. At the end -oi l9_8l_J Greilada- proved ·that philOsophy is no abst1:ac .. tio0

1 _end that to think all that i_s tieedad _is activity, '·ta· to Submit :to

'the half-:Way _dialec:Cic: that- can b4tc:ome·· a road ·to ~the_ counter:. revolution. -The ahock __ of Grenada was tha way in which che c:ounc;er-revolution_-risbt: within whae·eo~idered itself the revolutionary party of G~enada had paved the _-Way for u.s~. i~~~r~.4l_ia~' .-: invaaton.·~

Th~·: ~it~- )-~ar:---(1984}·,- the-·conVe~tioft ·of ·Neva-:.:nd~-iettSrB-- conG:iCr:eetr-- ····-~ Voted to move_ the Center of Marxist-Humanism to Chicago.. In making t:hia d4eis __ ion, we c:onsf.da_re~ that _'we_ ware: ·Uoten~inR: thb Marx Centeria:y_ Yea:r ___ _

.!loth-·ehrcnologio:all}• and Conceptually. _Thus we aaw ·th:.1 pamphlet • '-'~leano1:' .. MAr~ in Chicago-," :aa_.-One that had ::aught the "trail t_o the_-_l980s.- 11 ··~In~ ~- ~ · deed. ao did ·eur discussion bu.llatin around the. £·!.rat_ English tranalation

· c£ M'rx'a- Mathematical.-Manuscr.iptc, which we called: _·"The FetiSh o.f High Tech and K.&rl Marx 1 8 Unknown Ms:hf~ma,t:f.t:al Manusc:ript,s. 11

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.ment:; in'·_'t-he···new horile_. ~f' Ne~s -·&nd Letters c~Canit_tees ,-. :whiC:hi• are _refleCt:­ed in~ three- pub_iicat1ons_~-~-:in-:· par_ticul;;.r_:._.- l) .. _:_"Red_ponsibility- 'for Ma~.~d.at:­Hina8riiinn.:·_.:Ln '-.the __ Hist:oriC Mirror: A.'-ReVolUtiotl!lry._Ci:_ii::tCel; Look'_' -_(#8334); --_·. 2) _'-'Marxist•Hulnani_B!!!)la a i.1-~,ty,:..~~f- Idi~a":· (6834S);:· and -'3) ~'Di_.Blectic_s_ of' -

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Re"olU.tion_:_. AmeriCan 'tt-oott):"and: lioi:'l<i-· Humanist -Concepts, 11

f;he_ piesent_at:~ ·, ·g-~v-e~ ·at. the_·A!'~h_iye_s ;h~)~b_or_ Hist·o~y--~~~ Urban Affairs on Haich 21, ~--

·• ' - "-- - '..:..:~~ ,' -. . ...

.of.a. the·~ £1Tst.' or the 1 work to as-:· it ita,elf': de-VelOped- dialt.~'etiCSlly_;· ~·While

it . iurcil;·:Of<l:;;_rol~tion· •. WomE!,Tt'_s L'ibCi·&cio·n, _it ac~·-~.tu4lly_ itlc _ . __ all forces_-of __ soei_al reVOlutiOn·':-~--:'t'evolutior..a:w~!ch have been cA!~ied:- out::_ by_: men and_ wome'n throUghout hisc~ry. -:;The dual rhythm of_ anY; sOcial revOlU_tiOn lieS in the cask': of- both destroying· the_ old exploitative soc:J.ety: and crf7~.~i-;:3 _L_ota:lly ne~ huTNln relations.

R~Ya DunaYevSkaya Mc.rch 1, 1985-

"

:SectiOn· r~ 1981-1982':" Internatior.al Trail to the 1.980S and a Trilogy

of Revolutio~t

(1)._ \':the Trail' in the 19&US fol:- Trana·f~rmirig· RealitY,. ·.-Perspec­]':iveS ·aeport by- Ray a- Dunayevskaya to News·- and_ Letters Com:­iP,ittees l'le_~um,' Se-pt~ 5-~ 198i. - Bullet._in· als_o·: i'neludes . Hyllabu_~ for_ classes· in Res a·: LmtembUrz, Women's Liber8tion, 'and Marx'.s =·philosophy of Revslo~tion. ~ :: ~

;":., _,. ~

:- (2) "'The "TWO wOrlds iri Each Coutlti:y; The Need- tO'Tr~·ris'fi:ii-m· ··- , .. . Reality. Draft· P_e-rspeetive::~ Thesis.· .July 14 1 19131.-

(3) Post-Plenum ~Bullritin- fi2. _ Includes- reports to Plenum by Mi_chae:I:_.con_n'?ll:r, o_n .ore,lniZS.tiOn;· Eur.ene Walt;er· o'n-·N"eN·s &·-: Letters; disclt~.~i-~~~~)l-~ _c~~:r;~~~-:pen~_Y_~:~ ... ;~pt._ 6,· 1~_81., ·

. _,.~· . ' -.. ' ' -· .. - - :::-:;_:;:__ Latin· America' fLRevolutions/Lafl Revoluciones de- l.Atino­america. a. bi-lingual p!!mphlet.. I;:;;rudes _:'_El -Sa~y~d2r-..:_ Reagan 1 a Genocidal War ,and .the Unfillished .. -t.Atin--Arr.c!-:· _:..·.tm ReVOlutions"· bY D·tinayevGkS:ya·. · ~epc·; 19&·1~- · · --"- ·~·-

(5) - Deng r~vises not so mUCh Mao. aS M&.rx. ,"Theory/Praci:"ice" .. ,column by Rayn -ounayevskaya,;:- Aucus::_, -~981.

--.·(6) l:r,qnt. · Re.,iol-at1Cn and Counter-revoluciofl. Philo~ophic let:ters by Ray&' Dunayevskaya, A News &: !.2 t ters palnph let. •. 1982.

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(8}-;. -l-iiddt~- E~~t -~omen:·. Liberati~~ --~nd ~-sOcial ~e~·oiu~~i~n-~ · Essay by_ -Ne_da Azad .in & June, 1~81.

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(9)'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ · ( 10) . I~~-latid: _:~:aii~iolut 10~- a~d Th~o~x-.;~-- -by:·nt~·l,t~~l~:-Cv~l"~i:~liy-: ;:;

··k_New~ ·&·Letters .pamphlet. ·May-_2~' 0 ~9:-~1._ ·

(11) Mat-xist-Hum&n:l~m~ I8-sue:''ti4.. PubliCa-tion of_ Bt:·~ti.s'h 1-'~r~ist-Huma~ists.- Fe~~-Mai;"Ct, -~982;.

' - _( 12) Beei:n' 8 ._ xs·~~e 1 Moves F~lrth~r ~-nd Fuit:her Backward to his-Reactionary, Terrorist Beginninns._ Political~

Ph~lf:1s"'phic_ Le_tter ~y Ray~ Duna).:evs~taya. Ja.~·., 5,' 198~.

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(13) DOWn -with. the Perpetrator-s 'Of c.he Pales-tiriian Slaughter,

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by Raya Dunayevs~roya. Printed in News & l.etrerQ Oct.·-1982.

Poland: ground; Printed

CoU~ter-revolution drives- the revcluti.on uncler-the-resiscance; continues, by Raya Dunayevskaya. in--News· & ·Letters.-, Jan. -Feb~ 1082. -

~ieli.tY.:.l-~ive years": of EaSt -B:U'rO.~an· revolt-~.11-nd Ca':' the· re-creation of -Ma.rx~s Marxism. ''Theory/Pr.ac:::ic:e 11 column by-~;~ya··oun.ay~ys_~yB. March 19~~-~-::_:;;--_---.- - ·-

_:· (16) · And;;opOv' s_. ascenda!iC}.'--refleCts final s·ta.~e- of st.&te-.. -<capita lism'-s de~eneracy. . Poli.tica1-philoso_phic--_letter

--by- R.qya Dunay£v-nl~aya.--·· . ·Nov:~ -.:i;sz-: ... · -:_· · .-:_·d.---- .. -~• ~ · . .· -

(17) woma.n·as Reason -and n.s Fore~ Of Re~olutio:{~-:--_~SCtected wr!.:ings by Rays. Dunt'!.yevslcaya on Women'~- Liber&tion .. _ .Published- for l:nternacional Women's :Day, Ha'rch· 8, 1981 by- WOmen's LH):!raCion-News and Lette't's Committees·, on _the tent~ a~n.i:J'ers-ary.-of their !oundi~&:!.:-.--: :·

'(18) J.n mu)er como .rezon· y -fuer~a.-_rc-··OluC;,~;,~~'i8. :!;l'·anish. ectition uf .i~otn.:ln as Reason .and· as. Force ·of' Revclution, :published by_ the __ Peruv:!.:m-·feminisc:,::roup,- ALIMUPER, March: -:1982~ ·-IneJudes: es8'4Y "Ro9·a LuX:embUr:~·o y el femiilismo',, b)' An'ne 'Molly Jac~3on. ··

-(19) The revolutionary activirv of Polish ·womr.n •. Essay by Urszula Wis1anlte., in News & Letters,-_:-rarch, 1982:··

(20) A 1981 view of -Marx's- 1841- d1a1ccC:ic· •. .'.'The:C'ry/Pract!c~"-_:­column by Ray.o. ·our.ayevskaya~.': he;: 1e~t~l!~r to Ctu1::1es .DenLy. or· Nay 5, J.98t." June, --1981. --· · · · · ·

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Ttle·:frl!~rh edition cif;·Cb.~it:al{-100 years--'after. --.ESsay by-Ke~,!.n A. Barry_ in:-·til:ews &.Letters,- Oct.;.'., 1981.

·'~~ -- . -.:-'--" --: ... : .. ·.:·"".' : .. ,:.~ .. -. ·-".- :_ ~- --.·-:'

'··(22)' On the 150th',·1nni~~ersary -~i~Ce- He~e1' s ·deach·: ··How valid for ou~·day -!::re-Marx 1s Hegelian.:._~7 · '-'Theoiy/

:~ Practicen column by Re.ya Dunayevakayr .. ' •. Dec.~ 1981. ~-- <' - :._,--;;;;.,~.:::- ' - ,.4

:Hobsba~ ·an~~Rubel· ~-the Ma~~- c·e~tenari,:.. bUt w~'~fe is .. ,·,;.-­Marx1 · "Theory/Practice" c:ol,uam by Raya ·-nunayevskaya.;. Aut:;~·":se·pt~-. __ -1982~--~'·' ; .. )?"~:: ... -:..~_:·:;~~~:-=-~:~~~~:.:..;" --<--'-'"-· -· --~ ---·.

~"ccc' ... ':;;:;;<''·' . ··'·' •;i!,_ c24) ..;;·~~.-:~h~ :'·B~-~-~ li7-~f ·-zi~i~·: .. : -.-Phi lO&OphiC:.Tn~·Ji~ ~iC" Pciir.:t;:," -~

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_ cf Denarture l'.s ·Political Tendencies Respond t:o. the _ ···objective Situation. Political-Philosophic--Letter by-·

Raya Dunay~ . .rsltaya. Oct~ 5-:-15, 1982.

Dialectics of Liber8.'tion 1 by kaya ·nunayev@kay~ .. : New cover to this 1974 News- and Letters'· pamphlet Yas creat­ed after c1.·itique ·bY DU1l8yevskaya pointed t:o- t:he ·laclc. of_ a ·listint. of Hegel's Philosophy of Mind- as ·a subject. of her M&y 20., 1953 _l~tz:er on Hegc·1' s Abso.lutes.

propo:sed

E~e~Conve-ntiOn dis-: to the;·Wome:n• s :Liber3ti0n-

Ne~s Lett:e':s Committees.- June 22 ~ ·_1982; and __ to the I'o~tertu'itionalist 1-'.&rx.ist.:.HUmani::st:. Y.outh Ccmmitt~e; Aug. 16, 1982.

-;' - -\28) A Philosophy "of-'~Revvlution. ,N'e~did: Mass Opposit:io·n tci Reag.-nomic:- and the -nrivc for Nuclear· War~::- Dreft, P~r:­sp~_ctiv:es Thesis_, June 25, 1982.

(29) t;tlat to Do: Facin"'j ·the Depth of RecenSion· lind· the Myriad Global Polit1c~l Crise.'l as well as the- Philosophic Voi'!_. Perspectives Report _by Raya Dunayevskaya to News and Lette"::"s- C~r:\1,\!.i:tees Con~.ention, Sept. 4. 1982.

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Po:st-Conv~ntion BUlletin ·112. Inc ludc& -.reportS to C'-nve:l­tion bY Eugene 'Walker on News & t.E!c:terS; Nichaci Connolly on-:_Or.~anizat:ion. -Se;.t.-, _1982 •. :

- - "-·-";_. __ ... __ , -·-· POst-Convention Bulletin,flJ. _lnCludes-_Cha_rles Denby's report on his last trip ._to the Sourh;-- ~IO.dex tO- BOUnd­Vol11me o~ News & I.ettCrs. -·1955.,.19~~.· .S6pt.", -l9S2.

(32)' -·t-!ar~ -lH'Id-·ti'an .. capi~clist lAnds·: 1873-1883. __ Essay b:,• EUJ-'tCne Wa_~ke_r~.-i!' Ne1o~s & Letters,- Dec. 1 1~~82.

(33) Brof"tmre by Humanities Press.-- l9~ti·.-_:a·nn·o~mci.n:; _the publi:.. cation O~-- Rosa Luxemburz, Womlln 1 8- Lib"lrati~n. ---&nd ~larx. 1 s \'hilosophy of Rftvolut:ton by Raya Dunayevs!\..o.y_a. Offers

.. at- _tho :_a.l:.f!'~_;,:_,c_l~..::~.":':'~-: p::-.intin~!_-.-''C'f lt-'!r M~rx:::.nm ant.L Frco'clo:n.!:. c:" "''oc:·C':}C:cc,;c-icj and Philosoph\• And k.Ovolution.

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~ar~is'nl-e.nd FreedOm., from -1776 !Jm:il- Today, by R8.ya ))ur.ayevskaya~ Humanities Press·, in rhe .U~S; and: Har­-vester Prtiss· in-'Britsin· jointly- published thi:i 1962 aditiOil.-:::: .Ine.luded :here. is. the-~'Postface. for, 1982, u~ by'·nunayevs __ ~~~· · ' ·- · · - _, · · ·· ·

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R;sa Luxe~u~?,-~- Wo~~·s Liberation and.·HarX 1 s 'Philosop~ of Revolution! by Ray&_Duns)'evsknya_.. First publication ~Nov .. 1982 b·1 Humnti1t1e8· PrE!•3s irl--the U.;S.· and liarveslier -Press in.Britain~- Included here is-'the Table of Concents and the Introduct:ton by Duriayevska:Ya-~ . . ,

SECTION -II- 1983: The Marx Cencenary Yea;

_ (1) Marxist-Humanism,- 1983: --T-bC--,.-Summa't.ion that· is a t-lew -- -··--u-~ ,_."Re~innin~ ~ Subjectively an..;' 'Ob jecti.vely.· · Pres!!ntacion

.:::-to expanded meetinz of R~"..~P,!dent Editorial Board ·of, News an~_ Lccters Cotnmit(cies;.by_ Raya Dti0..ayeys1c8ya~-' :.-:

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Jan._ 1, 1983. " ·

. The:· N'itionai- toUr on ~.:he Marx cent:enarv. 11The_ory/ practice=' column by Raya iiunayevskaya. June, ~583.

d!!livered mcore :chan · p8-itiC:ipa-t:e'd

· views, numerous press conferences, meet:_in~S 'With t:..:'tivist:S.

(4) ·GuatemaJan Rc.volrti:ionaries Spe~~ok. A Newe '&Letters pamphlet: _-with-lridian, peas~n~t;:, .:md·womcn's voices frCmi' the Guatemalan:scru~gles.· Includes 11The·:.l954 (:_ust'!:mal&n Cciup'' by Ray a Duna.y~vS.l<aya, and "The. Peasli.Ot: dimension in_-Latin AW!rt.Ca", by .MichaP.l. Connolly ... · M.J~ch,· 1983 .. ~--· ... :

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(5) Pt'efrice to the--Iranian.edltion-·of -Nacior:alism. Coi:ili'.Jni9m, Ma~xistMHumonism and the·Afro·A~i~n Revolutions, by R&ha. an -Iranian. revolutionary in exile. TrAns lat.ed -::f,nto Eng-'<~ uSh and-Printed in"_'News-.F. Lattcrs, Aur;.-se'pt ... 1983 •

(S) . ,IraraiaO.- edicion. ~f N~ti~i1i lisrn 1 CO~ur.l~·m.- Mnrxi:t­·-Humanhm, and the Afro-Asian:Revolutions. Translated into'-_Fa~·si by. ~r_anian youth and -?Ubl1shed P:tar.-, 1983.

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~.:::.-; (7). Marx e-~d ·t'he Third W~rld: New 'Perspectives ~.::~writi:t?.B

fr-~.n his Las: De.:ade. A New_~- & Le_ttera pampt:,~.t _by , •_Peter Hudis_. Thi_a essay __ w&D- rap~~n.ced :"it~;:or.~~cf~r.~~c't".:-_: · s.ft . .:!r' its, ori;?,inal pU~li;cation in §ouch As:ia !ulhH"in,

(\''?_~;- _l:I:t; -No •. l;-spr~nn 19_83)·.-·- _<.:~~-- ., 11;:~/if!<·"· _ -·~:~ _ (8)_ Ffrst English-.- tr&UBtatioil af R~ss LuX~!nbU:if;'s ''Martln- ·

ique"·, :.by David ~olff.-- A !tews &'Letters~· ~~blica~_i~n~_ J'an., 1983.- ·· ·

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SowetO Day: . Bleck "Co~~cio"ua'MS~ lirid "&iiist-Huma~-iRm.,- -~ 1 ·A ·guest_ -"W_prk_.er; a· Jo~rnal'1 ... c:"lumn _-by Lou- Turner »- __ re:-:.

p_ort.ing:_ on:_Tuiner _, s par'ttc:iPati~:m_- .in .s_moleto·:oay _mectiites held -by the· Black corulCioUsnesB "HCrVetOOn.t-··--Of-~A:z:anid.. , . .Jurui 16-18, 1983~ -F-.:.·inted in Ne-ws·.& Letter.-;, -July.,: 1983.

(10) ·:. How. __ to aid" birt~- ·of Worke~~· ;~~- r·or~s of org3ni~ation'. Essay by John Marcotte in t;c.::.s & Letters. Oct. nl9S3.:

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(11) Challenr.~ to ch!! Youth on th~ Needed Toial Up~~oti'ns- of the Old and.the·creati•n of New Human-Relations. Letter by- Raya Du::1ayevskaya Wl:':itten as part of Pre-Convention d~scussion. Aug. -!3, 1983.

_ -.-(12) !etters· to Women'!t-- Libera.tion-Ne:ws and Lettern COmmittees, by Raya D~mayevskaya. .Jan. 27 and Jan • .3_1, -1983.

. (13). Pra-ConvCntion Buill!-tin #4. Thi~- :95-pa-~e_· dis_c~ssion . bulletin.-_ w!.th 25 __ contributif'ns, _re·ra.·esents. __ a~ part:. 0£ the vit_a_l ferme~t·.'of idess ·that -preceded the" special 1983 Constituti.OUal Convention·· ·of News· -and;-Letters­CotlmiittE!es. In~ ludes "RevolUtions and .Philosophies,"~

,~ .lett"e.r _by Duna!fevskay_a·.writ:_ten Au&. ~' ,1983~ · Bulletin published Aug~ 1983 •. - -~

~!~}_.,::..: ~~sd:-:un~(!~i at:··. :to~-;~c~~i-'~~road in thec·~t0iJ31 ·y.:;,a;:o.::of _~ .. --. the.Missile. Draf!:. Perspective:; T!lesis~ June-·23s f983 •. ·-

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. '" - ' ' . -. . _·-:--: .- : ._-_·_----r>·-. _--. , , ~ -~---_·- - _·'--_-~( -:- ·. The Marx Centen::ry- Discloses t:he -Need- for-th£ PhilosoPhy of_ '.'Revolution ir. Permanence" for Uprooting Reap.anism . _ out to Shackle t_f},!! P~E.PJ~-~wit!l_:"Nind-F_9,!!ied Manacles" of Unfreech.~m .;_.; · Perspect1.ves--Report by Rays Dunayevskaya _to New~_~and Lett::;!rs. Committees_ Conventiorl, Sept. 3, __ .1983.

Re.pQrtc ·from- Ou'~ 1983 -~C-on~Ciiutiona 1 · Ccnventi;:,n •.. i3u lle-~' tin includes: sta_terr.ent _to Convention by_ Ch&r le·s DenbY; pluS. rePorts on OrganizatiOn by .. Michaet··connolly; on the Cone t:ttut ion. by -a~ r,CO: _ Pom.a. us i<.i ;·~o~l: NeWS ·,.<·Let t~rs ··by Eugene Walker; on the Elaclt Di.menaion in rl'!volutionary journa liom by- i.ou Turner. . s~ pt. I 1983.

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- ( 17)-~ Ccns_t~i:ut_ion-- ~nd._-By;.::-laws~;~:f/Ne~:f-' a nd:>I.e_t.ter_~- ·c~ml:nit tee-a··, aS_ floieC.ded_~--:at· ~cciri.stitUtiona 1 'Conv~ntion, :·sept.; '• »·~ 1983 •. --~tDend~nt·s_.,.iilc:luded add1t:i0n· of: Rosa Lcxembu=s£- wO:ocn's. ··t.iberation, -and·Marx's- Philos·ophv cf Revorut:ion ns theore­tical· 'foundation-·.·for .the ·Committees,. along with the ·oCher­two __ works of what-.'\:e~_c now_._called.:"6 trilozY o_f reVolu­

·tioriu_ :. Ma·rxi-sm and· Freedom~ ,_an~ .-PhilOSOphY ·a~~ RevOlution.

(18) Thr(.!:' P..(!'\•iews of--'ROsa -LuxeMbUigj· Woa;en 1.A.~Lihei:-&.'tion·and Marx• sc.Phf.loaophy of Revolur.ion by-Raya·_nunayevskaya:

·:;:G~()rge".-Arms.~r,.:mg Ke1ly _.in. Politic-al Theory: (Vo1 .. ·_::·11; "~No. 4; '·Nov. ,•:1963); _ Kevin_A!lderson. in··Africa Today (~o1.;_·~:29_, ·_No. 4,

1982); Vnle_r.ia RusSo 1il Di:iten'31oni (Milan, Italy) -(Na~ '·SO, 1984).

(19) ~~t-er on ArneriCan Civilization oO:·'Ti.-iat·'f~~~- Ch8.rl~s -~enby ro Ray a Du~yevskaya. Printed~ in _Denby'~ ••vio:dter' s -Journal'' C9lU.mn, J'une-1 "~1983.

·(20),; Ain.-?rican CiVi.li7.3tion on Trial. Statement. --o·£ -~:hii N,!!-tiotlal Ed!.toria.l.-Board',. . Fourch· expanded_ edition ;>ublished on the-' 20th anri.iVet-s·ar·y of boc.!i t:h::! .1953- !ofarck'on--Washinf'~Cnn and chc f:fi:-st _edit.:.ioO. of t;hi~--~N-e~!J & I.ecters- pcliitphle-t:;; This-

_·; 1983 _ecii~i'otl--1nc lu~es·- "A 1930s View of the_ no~o-Way Road . ·Between the· U.S~; and Africa," b·y .. ·Rnya- D'una.)ieVskaya. Pub'-

·_:~ ·Iiilhed A-u~. '1983. -- - - · -·

-(_~j-};:~:-5-ta-temenc--!iy CharleS Denby t'O-. 1993 ~News"·-~~~ .;Le~ters Commirteea Constitutional Convene ion. Writ::cen on Aur;·. 13,; 1983~- i~: -is -t:he :last: "letter by Charl~-g Denb~·. who. passed away· Oct:.· ~10, -1983. ·~ -~---,':'~:..·~~:-~-~--;_~- .. ---,--~·- ----:.: ..

--.:~·-'' ·:<'(22) "Charles· Denh-v,,-Wor!;..:.::--Editoi'~, ~n Iri l:'femcriat~(to:oeiiby·· by Raya Dunayevs!~aya, pub·list-ted ·in News & Letcers Nov., 1983, traces ·_nunayevsl~aya' s 35-ye-ar-lon:~ _ polit_ical re-

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(23) Gr~nad8>: .... Rev~iu~.;ion, Cou~ter-revolut:ion. Imperial1 st lnvnsiou •. 1'wo_ articles by Raya Dunayevsku.ya 1 plus_ an eyewicness ieP'Ori _o_n _che_ "ma_ss fieein~ and army. murder of_-~{2.Ui-ice 'B:iS)1op'~~- :·A NeWs & ~t!:ers pa~phler. Dec. 1983.

(_?4L ... ;.a-,invasiori v'--~--onq~iscc:.·impcr·ialisl:.a..rl~. ~r~nada per .. .. ~." ...... Rear..!!!! •. · Spanish translat:ion_ of article by Raya Duna:­

·yevskaya in News·& Lett:er!!,. __ Dec. 1983· • .:.::-:. ·.-::-<-:

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S~~t:ion III i9.S4·;;.1985: Responsihilitv for MarXist-Humanism · Iilthe Historic· Mirror

-·---~-1)~~-;f~~;~;,,·~rx-- in Chic.ac;o 1 by Terry Hoon. A Wqmen 1 s Libera-

r.ion .. Ni!W!!L_¢c_: Le"tter'l ___ p_ubliC;tt ion, - t !t_is. mini- pamrhlc _t: _focus-es on the· AmCr'iCl£n--toUi.-~-o-r_-Ele3.it~r }Iilr·x~-in 188s~----and·---:,er .: trip to ChiCa~o at t'11~- L-1m!!:·af the ii.s}·utB.rket cv~nts. Jan. 1984.

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MS.rX'' s--~·!New tluman1Sm11 - and -·the Di.al.~ctiCS of ... Wometi'~ : Libera cion" in -Primitive--and MQdern Societies.- This:

arti_c le by Ray a··._ Dunayevsl:aya 1o~as --first; pub li~hed: :1_11 Pr_axio riO.terna_tionaL (Vol·,:_ 3, _ Nc.-. 4, Jari. :198!+); ·-.a·:--­Yugoslav-itl.ter1latio_nal _·dissident jourriBr~-~:- It- waS .-iepr.inted ·as. a .uews·&··t.ett:c!r"i?pamphle·c ·-in--April, 1984.

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· L~~e~bU~g :·-_:·-Fe~i~t~m·:.-a ni ~~~~: a.· diSc u:s~·io~-- --~f--··:t he ;;wor·l~f!. of- Raya·: Dunayevs!:ayn •. - Two artie lee_ by- Michel-le .·Landau

: and-H_Terry Hoon; .. Pl:lblished- in the_- fetDinisi: newspaper·~-~- __ , __ _ off'our'-bac!~...:;·(vol. ·xrv, ·No.6, Aus.·-sept. 1984);:."The ar_ticles ;~ere repl:inted ~s a Women' a LiberG.t{o'ri-_N~ws and 'Let·c-e£S:colr.init·te~e- Publicn:cion~- Oct. 198:4~ · , ·

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Nat:ioit&li.Sm. Communism, 1-farxist-Humailism and the-Af:J:o- _ -.~·11an Revo1utlcns, by Raya ·nunay_evsl~aya. Third Enc1ish­'languat~e edition (it:_ appea_red in Japanese in 1955 and· in 'Farsi itf-- 1983)_ cOntains a new 'Introduce ion b!• Dunayevskaya wr.itten Feb ... -15, .1984. ·, -

'(5)"- Pa-ge--One of Jan.-Feb. 1984-News &'Letters. At the J-an. 1, 198_4 _meeting_ of the Resident Editorial Board of. News & Lettel:-s~_-a_moiion'.was pass-ed to continue to ·represent_ the Black and -prol~tarian dimensions __ of our: movement on the·· front: page --of -the __ newsP.iPeJ:: ait~r- 'the·· death of · Charles _Denby: _With. two new- columns:· · 11\~orkshop -Talks,

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by_.the Labor-_Editoi, Felix.":-H:i"rti-q. aud John·_Harcotte; and "Black·t.J'oi:hl11 bY Lc)u _TUrner. (For earlier_ .. -w:riting-'by F-eli.x Harx:' see his reView of. Denby'S -Indignant Heart A -nlBck \iorker'S .·Journal irf N&L Ja.n.-Feb., 1979.) In­cluded on: the microfilm is LOu Tu-cner's -~'Bl3..ck.W:l_:t-ld11 -cOhunn: __ ·:~:i&n_:Lf;tcan~-~ of ~~~-~¢us Ga1:'.rcy ·study." ·

(:5) .-Block opposition to- u.s. imperialism nt the encl. -..,f. the 19th centuryl:'by_--John Alnn~· -Essay' publishe_d in-~;:­Lettt:>rs, April, -1984•

0) , A 1980s View: The:· Coal .Miueirs-1-'General Strike of ·1949-50

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and the Birth of Mandst-Humanism in- the U.S. A News & · -~ Letters pamphlet ;_with _a'l:l ac_.:ount- by Andy· Phillips of "A Missin~r·.Pafie, fi-~[ll;Xir.iiriC.an: Labo~ History',',: a~d ·an essay•:by Raya .nunayevskaya on "The· £meq~cnce, __ <t-f _a·:New_

:::""Moveme-nt- from Practic_e- thac is Ttsel_f a :Form-of Theoi:-y". Includes as.appendix a list of 35.letters from- the-·1949-50 philosoPhic ·corresP.or.~ence betWeei\· Ray a_ nunayeVsltSya, . C.L.R. Jnr.2s ·and_t;race Lee (Boege). '(Sec Vol •. II!::for, tht:_,-~J.cL:ters thems~lves.) Published June 17, 1984',' on the:· 31st anniverS;l_r~ cf rhe Enst German :worke_rs- uprising, and the '29th:anniv:"'::_ssr:-y __ of the creetion' of News &cLetters,­whose first, issue.- hOi'i.ored- chat;-revolt:. - ·

(B) Where are che 1980s ~:~~~ns? The-_·I~pe·roi:iVc-:N~ed for a: ~Totally New D!.rection in Uprooting Capitalism-Imperialism. :Draft:-_Persp_ec;c~ves ~hes_ie_, Llp~_!_l 2_6, _-__ 1~84._ _ :

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-and. to, the Youth, :.11s~~p_art o~cthc• ?re_-Conve_~tlon:diacus­·,siop.;.--_-'May .1, ., 1984:_ and·_ j_U.!le:_·:~--~;_-)984. · The--_lCti:er -to the Youth ;is:.entitled_:· 11 0-0 Li&tf!nine,:; to- Harx Think ·as .. Chal-·lengers'·to All .Post-MarX_~MaddstS~-~-~ : _."_. -

,. (~0) The !1-ovements · frorr:.i-:'}teOrY as- We 11-- as fro~--~rac~i~~ .v~: ·the' Great At·tificer·;_. Ronald Reagan, for·whorn the Whole :World: is~ a- Stage.-_, Persp_e.c_tive_s .·Report by __ R_aya;.'D,.~n!!y~v-~_:

sl<a.ya ·to· News end Letters Committees Convention,·_. July. 1·,

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POS·t;:_Conv~ntiori -Bull~ t-it\ fJ3. -.-ization_ by. Michael_Connolly,­_by_ LoU Turr.er·. ;-~~AUf,; 1984~-

IilclUdes rePorts -,~n Orr;"8ri­and :on Black· and Third ·World

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(12) ---Marx! s phi:losophy- of revoluti.o_n .vs. _non-~arxiS.t sChobr­careeris ts in. -."Marxism". ."Thcory/Practice11 cOlumn.-_ by--· .. · Ra-ya nunayev_akaya~ April, 1984." ·.A critioue of Terrell

·Carver. ··-'·:·~-,:.· ·. - , · ~ •

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Marx's last writingR on·Russia: new paths tO~ revolw.:ion and philosophic continuity~ Guest 11Thcory/P::-acr.ice 1 ~

·column by Michael Connolly, June, 1984-. ' "·

H~}x's critiqti~·::::uf culture J new study. '-'~Tht:!or}rf_' Practic~ 11 column by Raya -Dunayevsl~ya, Oct.·_l9.84. A -d~'.scussion Of- Lotiis DU.pre's-·.Mai:-x's ·Social Ctit-ique of-:<COlture.~

·(.15)- Fill::si 'tranSlS.tion Of "Intellecturals ·in. the-Age -or.-.stat·e­Capitalisma~ Ray a ·Dunayevskaya • s· 1961 ·.review ·of. Herbert MarcuOe' s Soviet .Har.xiSm. PUblished by Iranian· i;evolu­~iOi-iilrieS·, in ·exil~.·- .. Ha(,- ..;:t-<J34 ~-: ·_-_-_-_-

(lG)_:·: M8rx and' Duna}oevs!:8Y&"~- --~.i~iti~V;s'"·-c;n· t!le -. Pltri~ cOmmUne.­--Farsi translal:ion .. of .excerpts from_Marx-!s _Civil- War in :Fran..:e, and eXcer"t)ts from Dunayevskaya' s Marxism and ~m~- Publ~_s_he~ by- Irariian-youth, .:Z.W.Y• 1~84.

(17) Proposed Syllabus fOr: ne~- s~~ .. cl;~:: S~rie~ 'o~ Ml\..::idst­Humaniat Per~pectives and' the Dialectics of~ Revolution, by· R8ya- Dun&yev:=!~y!l.· -_:_Includes :J'On- Ten .Years of Marxi.sc­-Hums.ni_sc _ _I~~rsp2c'.:ives~1; by'Olr.a- Domanski. Oct. 1984.

(18) The Fetish of Hip,h Tech and Karl MArx's UnknOwn Mathe­mat.ical-Hanuscrie!!!_. A Ne~~ & J..etters- discussion bulle­tin cont:.:!lnint~ r.he f1rsC·"Amer1can-_-d1scuss1on·-of_ Mst:x's 1880-8:!_ MatbP.oatical Mss.-, a-__ part of which Appeared· in

.'-\',::-_:~·-::_~-:-Eriil:!.~h:in 1983.--,;".:;!t-.clUdes:·- ari:iclcS- by .Rcn·c!!rokmeyer_: .. -e.nd-'_F_r-ankall-:D~itric'.."J: sncl- -leue~s ___ by Itaya Duitaye~s:'·-ayll

a_n~-- O_thers. Dunayevsltaya examines thC i-oot:_s _of· Russian .. distortions of the ~.sc.< ill Buk_harin'a 1931_ prese.nt:ation

/i-~: to the Internatiorial ConC,iess on the Uistoiy "()£ s(dence _;'j and Te.Chrlology. "Nov. 1984.

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"~\ . ·~ .-~<· _!fespo'lta:i.hilitv ·foi'Mii:;-;'ls't .. Humanism 101 the liistcirtc---,:­Mirr"r: :A_· Revolutionar.'y-Critical. LooT.:~: .. Presentatiot:l. by; Ray a. :Dunayevsl--.aya -.to· the --.first ·_Ex,llnded :Resident, EditorialfBoaid_' of: _News· -&:nd ).et_t"E.!:_rs_'- Cocmit:c,ee&¥-. fol .. -. lowiilrf- the ·.moVe··· of 't.l:~ Center·; or Ma.iXisc-HumaniSul -~o_)::~_ic:!.ttg~4-;_ ... _Dec. 30~ .. J?B4.: ..

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. (~1) ·ui.~i~cti~-~--cf Re~~lut.16n: American RootS and Worid ·Hu .. · manist- Concepts. Lecture given. at _Hayne Sto.ce Unive!='sity Arcttives--of;- Labor· 'arid:· Urb.ari_AffairS_ by _·R<"y_8. _Dunay_evskaya

:oil the-· occesion of che opening o{-aU. exhibit Of her ·· _-· colleCtiotl-''Marxist-HumS.nism:- Its Orizin and -Develop­

----ment ·1n the-- u.s •• -.-1941 to Today".· March 21, 1985~ ' --

(22) Yomenrs Liberation and\::he'-Diatec~ics .'(,f RevolUtion: ·. ;:--;::Reachino- for the Future'; by Raya _Dunayevskaya·~ :A,

-· ~Hmr.en!.ti~s ·-P_ress -·lntermt_tiono.l book,. 1985. · Inclu~ed he"I;~ are the 'PaP;e ... proe-fs -~.f the TaDle -of Conce')ts;'&ncl ; __ . the IntrC!duction/Overview •. ; - -

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