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New International Editions of Interest to Marxist-Humanism

Some new publications have just come off the press that reflect Marxist-Humanism's appeal to new international audiences.

A new German book, Eingriffe: Aktuelle link Debaten in den USA uber Fundamentalism und Krieg (Engagement: Ongoing Left Debates in the USA over Fundamentalism and War) has been published by Unrast Verlag, in Munster, Germany. The book contains,

• A lengthy "Interview with Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson of News & Letters" on the radical movement in the U.S. and the views of Marxist-Humanism and News and Letters Committees.
• The News and Letters Committees statement on the September 11, 2001 attacks, published in News & Letters in 2001
• Peter Hudis's essay in N&L in the November 2004 on the U.S. invasion in Iraq, entitled "Resistance or Regression: The Battle of Idea over Iraq"
• The full text of the 2006-07 Perspectives Thesis of News and Letters Committees  and
• The "Who We Are and What We Stand for" statement in News & Letters

The book concludes with an Afterword by one of the German editors on his views of Marxist-Humanism and the work of the organization. The book also contains an ad for the forthcoming German edition of The Power of Negativity, which will be published very shortly by the same publisher.

This book engages a significant audience in Germany, a crucial land for ongoing debates on radical theory, Marxism, and Hegelian dialectics. The editors present the organizational face of Marxist-Humanism to German readers by providing translations of crucial organizational documents developed over the last several years. It publication shows that the relation of philosophy and organization interests radicals around the world looking for a viable alternative.

"The Farsi edition of The Rosa Luxemburg Reader has been published in Tehran, Iran. The book contains the entire text of the English language edition, including its Introduction."Also in Iran, several new reviews of the new Persian edition of Raya Dunayevskaya's Marxism and Freedom have appeared.

• In "On the Subjectivity of Marxism," A. Bozorgian writes, "Dunayevskaya is a Marxist-Hegelian who believes that abstract labor constitutes the nature of capitalism. Abstract or alienated labor which has to be performed faster and faster on the basis of socially necessary labor time, has pushed the majority of people on earth toward poverty and has destroyed the environment."
• In "Where is the Left Going?" A. Eftekhari writes: "Dunayevskaya is one of the Marxists who engaged in a critique of totalitarian Stalinist regimes. Alongside other New Leftists, she was able to revive Marxism from the putrefaction that it had suffered from. Naturally, in this re-examination of Marxism, concepts such as freedom, equality, the private realm, and essentially, critique in the sense that Marx applied it, were articulated."
• And in "A New Humanism," M. Baghai writes, "The structure of this book is based on the movement from practice to theory and also from theory to practice. It starts with the Age of Revolutions...and examines the relationship of each of these actualized revolutions with revolutions in thought, that is the rise of classical political economy, Hegelian philosophy and the re-creation of Hegelian philosophy by Marx in the dialectics of revolution. Ultimately it analyzes the problems of the current age. We recommend a study of this book to all scholars of political economy."

--5 October 2007

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