Title of Document (Original title plus comments)

Date Written (Published in N&L)

A Restatement of Some Fundamentals of Marxism against 'pseudo-Marxism' (A Restatement of Some Fundamentals of Marxism Against Carter's Vulgarization)

Nov. 14, 1943 (News & Letters, 6/99)

Marxism and Black liberation (excerpts from "Marxism and the Negro Question")

June, 1944 (N&L, 1-2/04)

Can the law of value be uprooted? ("A New Revision of Marxian Economics")

1944 (N&L, 4/04)

Marxism and Political Economy (conclusion of a series of lectures given on Marx's Capital)

1945 (N&L, 8-9/07)

The law of value in capitalist society (article in September, 1945 issue of the American Economic Review, in response to articles by Paul Baran, Oscar Lange and Leo Rogin)

1945 (N&L, 11-12/05)

The fatal defect of capitalist production ("The Decline in the Rate of Profit and the Theory of Crises")

1947 (N&L, 1-2/98)

Uprooting capitalism's law of value, part I (excerpts from "Stalinists Falsify Marxism Anew," which appeared in Fourth International, September, 1948)

1948 (N&L, 4-5/07)

Uprooting capitalism's law of value, part II (excerpts from "Stalinists Falsify Marxism Anew," which appeared in Fourth International, September 1948)

1948 (N&L, 6-7/07)

The despotic plan of capital vs. freely associated labor (first pages of a written draft for an oral presentation on "form and plan")

Dec. 27, 1950 (N&L, 11/98)

On the economic roots of imperialism: Rudolf Hilferding and 'the stability of capitalism' (excerpts from letter to C.L.R. James)

March 2, 1951 (N&L, 7/03)

The cooperative form of labor vs. abstract labor

March 2, 1951 (N&L, 8-9/03)

The revolt of the workers and the plan of the intellectuals, Part I (excerpts from the document "The Revolt of the Workers and the Plan of the Intellectuals," a defense of State-Capitalist Tendency's position as they broke from Trotskyism)

June 5, 1951 (N&L, 8-9/02)

The revolt of the workers and the plan of the intellectuals, Part II (excerpts from the document "The Revolt of the Workers and the Plan of the Intellectuals," a defense of State-Capitalist Tendency's position as they broke from Trotskyism)

June 5, 1951 (N&L, 10/02)

The myth of the invincibility of totalitarianism ("Two Pages of History That Have Shown the Way to Freedom," on the East German Revolt of June 17, 1953 and the Vorkuta prison uprising)

April 23, 1955 (N&L, 6/03)

A response to [Cornelius] Castoriadis's 'Socialism or Barbarism' ("'Socialism or Barbarism': On the Problem of a Workers' Paper" column in N&L)

August 5, 1955 N&L, (N&L, 10-11/07)

Marxism and the U.S. Civil War ("Marxism and Freedom: From the Industrial Revolution to Automation--An Outline of a Book in Preparation")

November, 1955 (N&L, 1-2/11)

Where to begin? Theory and practice in a new relationship (excerpts from "Theoretical and Practical Perspectives: Where to Begin," presentation given to founding convention of News and Letters Committees)

1956 (N&L, 4-5/08)

Can humanity be free? The new Marxism and Freedom (Introduction to the original 1957 edition)

May, 1957 (N&L, 10/00)

The philosophic foundation of Marxism (letter to Herbert Marcuse on forthcoming Marxism and Freedom)

June 11, 1957 (N&L, 12/08-1/09)

50 years after the revolution--Mao, Hegel, and dialectics in China (letter on Mao Zedong and his Feb. 27, 1957 speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People")

June 23, 1957 (N&L, 11/99)

The American roots of Marxism (excerpts from lecture "Communism, Marxism and Liberty--The American Humanist Tradition")

1958 (N&L, 3/03)

Toward a new concept of organization (excerpt from a 1958 draft resolution "World Outlook.")

June, 1958 (N&L, 6/02)

The roots of anti-Semitism

February, 1960 (N&L, 2/60, reprinted N&L, 10/99)

Fidelismo, statism, and the tragedy of the Cuban Revolution ("The Cuban Revolution: The Year After")

1960 (N&L, 12/60 reprinted 2-3/09)

African revolutions revisited (letter to Leopold Senghor; commentary on Senghor's The New Humanism: African Socialism)

May 15, 1960; 1961 (N&L, 3/02)

'Philosophic foundations of the struggles for freedom' (excerpts from letter to Joseph Buttinger)

Oct. 20, 1960 (N&L, 12/02)

Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic (Preface and Introduction)

Completed, Jan. 26, 1961 (N&L, 1-2/99)

Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic (Doctrine of Being)

Completed, Jan. 26, 1961 (N&L, 3/99)

Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic (Doctrine of Essence)

Completed, Jan. 26, 1961 (N&L, 4/99)

Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic (Doctrine of Notion)

Completed, Jan. 26, 1961 (N&L, 5/99)

Revolutionary dynamic of Hegel's thought (letter to a colleague, Olga Domanski)

February 7, 1961 (N&L, 7/00)

Notes on the Logic from Hegel's Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (Introduction and Preliminary Notion)

Completed, Feb. 15, 1961 (N&L, 4/00)

Notes on the Logic from Hegel's Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (Attitudes to Objectivity)

Completed, Feb. 15, 1961 (N&L, 5/00)

Notes on the Logic from Hegel's Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (Doctrines of Being, Essence, Notion)

Completed, Feb. 15, 1961 (N&L, 6/00)

Freedom Riders challenge homegrown totalitarianism (editorial written for News & Letters)

July 4, 1961 (N&L, 7/61, reprinted 6/01)

Nuclear war and state-capitalism (excerpts from 1961 Draft Perspectives Report, "Ideas and Organization")

July, 1961 (N&L, 7/02)

Spontaneity of Action and Organization of Thought (Political-Philosophic Letter in commemoration of the Hungarian Revolution)

Sept. 17, 1961 (N&L, 10-11/06)

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis tested anti-war Left (excerpts from "Marxist-Humanism vs. the U.S. Blockade of Cuba, the  Russian Missile Bases There, Fidel Castro's 'Selective' Party, ALL Playing With Nuclear Holocaust," a Weekly Political Letter)

Oct. 25, 1962, (N&L, 11/02)

Historic roots of conflict in South Asia ("The China-India War in a Nuclear State-Capitalist Age: Relationship of Imperialism to the Ideological Struggles")

December, 1962 (N&L, 7/99)

Racism and the birth of imperialism, 100 years after the Spanish-American war (excerpt from American Civilization on Trial)

1963 (N&L, 7/98)

American Civilization on Trial as basis for follow up studies (Political Letter, "American Civilization on Trial as Statement of our Views and as Basis for Follow-up Studies and Articles")

April 15, 1963 (N&L, 11/03)

The uniqueness of Marxist-Humanism (excerpts from "The Need to Transform Reality," 1963 Perspectives Speech to national convention of News and Letters Committees)

August, 1963 (N&L, 1-2/01)

To Fromm on the Dialectic (letter to Eric Fromm)

Nov. 21, 1963 (N&L, 2-3/08)

'Marx's Humanism Today' part I (published in Socialist Humanism edited by Eric Fromm)

1965 (N&L, 5/04)

'Marx's Humanism Today' part II (published in Socialist Humanism edited by Eric Fromm)

1965 (N&L, 6/04)

'Marx's Humanism Today' conclusion (published in Socialist Humanism edited by Eric Fromm)

1965 (N&L, 7/04)

The theory of alienation: Marx's debt to Hegel (lecture first published in The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution)

1965, (N&L, 8-9/01)

Why Philosophy? Why Now?

1965 (N&L, 12/65 reprinted 4-5/06)

Ramifications of Watts revolt (excerpts from Perspectives Report to 1965 convention of News and Letters Committees)

September, 1965 (N&L, 8-9/65, reprinted 5/01)

Recollections of Leon Trotsky (written while visiting Japan, first published by Asahi Shimbun)

Dec. 15, 1965 (reprinted in N&L 7-8/10)

Marx's humanism and the mass struggles since World War II ("The Humanism of Marx Is the Basic Foundation for Anti-Stalinism Today," lecture given in Japan)

Dec. 18, 1965 (N&L, 1/66 reprinted 6-7/06)

Hegel's summons: Grasp revolutionary spirit of the age (lecture given in Tokyo to a group of activists and writers from Zenshin, an anti-Stalinist organization of the Japanese New Left)

Jan. 2, 1966 (N&L, 8-9/08)

Revisiting 'Black Power,' Race and Class (excerpts from 1966 Marxist-Humanist Perspectives Thesis)

September, 1966 (N&L, 1-2/00)

Tragedy of China's Cultural Revolution (excerpts from "World Significance of China's Self-Created Turmoil")

October, 1966 (N&L, 10/66 reprinted 8-9/06)

The double tragedy of Che Guevara

Nov. 1967 (N&L, 12/97)

Murder and war in the uncivilized U.S. (excerpts from "These uncivilized United States: Murder of Rev. King, Vietnam War," Lead-Editorial N&L)

May, 1968 (N&L, 5/68 reprinted 4/03)

The near-revolution of France, 1968: Why did it fail? ("Who Arrested the French Revolution?")

1968 (N&L, 6-7/68 reprinted 6-7/08)

Economic reality and dialectics of liberation (letter to Alan Wallach on draft chapter of Philosophy and Revolution)

May, 1968 (N&L, 12/98)

Practicing Philosophy and Revolution (letter to colleagues on the National Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees)

May 28, 1968 (N&L, 6/98)

Recollecting the legacy of 'Socialism with a human face' ("All Eyes on Czechoslovakia, All Hands Off!")

August 4, 1968 (N&L, 8-9/98)

From the Black-Red Conference: Dialectics of the freedom movements (excerpts from lecture given at Black-Red Conference in Detroit.)

Jan. 12, 1969 (N&L, 1-2/10)

From Marx to Marxist-Humanism (lecture to News and Letters Committees)

1969 (N&L, 8-9/04)

Marxist-Humanism's concept of 'Subject' (letter to young members of News and Letters Committees)

Jan. 15, 1971 (N&L, 8-9/99, reprinted 5-6/11)

Praxis and the responsibility of intellectuals (excerpt from "Praxis, Responsibility of Intellectuals and Our Tasks," part III of "War and Revolution," the 1971 Draft Perspectives Thesis for News and Letters Committees)

July, 1971 (N&L, 11/01 reprinted 8-9/09)

On C.L.R. James' Notes on Dialectics

May, 1972 (N&L, 10/97)

The dialectic of Marx's Grundrisse (excerpts from critique of Martin Nicolaus' Introduction to the Grundrisse)

1973 (N&L, 9-10/05)

Dialectics and the Black dimension (excerpts from chapter 9, "New Passions and New Forces," Philosophy and Revolution)

1973 (N&L, 1-2/03)

Remembering Allende, 1973 (letter on Chilean President Salvador Allende)

September 13, 1973 (N&L, 10/03)

Marx's Grundrisse and women's liberation (excerpts from "The Grundrisse and Women's Liberation," talk given at the New School for Social Research, NY)

March, 1974 (N&L, 3-4/05)

Black dimension in women's liberation (excerpts from lecture to Union W.A.G.E,.Women's Alliance to Gain Equality)

1975 (N&L, 2-3/07)

Practicing Proletarian Reason: On seniority and labor's emancipation (letter to Felix Martin, Labor Editor of N&L)

July 25, 1975 (N&L, 11/00)

Remembering the 1974-75 Portuguese Revolution and its relation to Africa ("Under the whip of the counter-revolution: Will the revolution in Portugal advance?", originally a Political-Philosophic Letter)

1976 (N&L, 1-2/76 reprinted 11/04)

Marxist-Humanism's original contribution (excerpted from a speech, "Our Original Contribution to the Dialectic of the Absolute Idea as New Beginning: In Theory, and Leadership, and Practice")

April 18, 1976 (N&L, 5-6/10)

Marx's concept of 'labor' (critique of Bill J. Harrell's "Marx and Critical Thought" both published in Paunch, No. 44-45, May, 1976)

May, 1976 (N&L, 11/76 excerpts; reprinted 12/04 in full)

Global capital's structural crisis and the need to return to Marx's Capital (excerpts from "Today's Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx's Capital, " includes critique of Ernest Mandel's Introduction to Capital)

1978 (N&L, 12/06-1/07)

The philosophic legacy of Karel Kos’k (excerpts from "Adorno, Kos’k and the movement from practice")

1978 (N&L, 3/78 reprinted 10/04)

Dialectics: The Algebra of Revolution (excerpts from comments made during the 1978 Convention of News and Letters Committees)

September, 1978 (N&L, 4/01)

Rosa Luxemburg: revolutionary, feminist (review of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, edited by Steven Bronner)

1979 (N&L, 8-9/79 reprinted 5/98 and 1-2/05)

International Women's Day and Iran
Letter to colleagues in News and Letters Committees (excerpts, reprinted in Women's Libearion and Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future)

March 10, 1979 (N&L, 3-4/11)

In celebration of Women's History Month--Lessons of the Iranian revolution (excerpts from "Iran: Unfoldment of and Contradictions in Revolution")

March 25, 1979 (N&L, 3/04)

The Two Russian Revolutions, and once again, on the Theory of Permanent Revolution (excerpts from Political-Philosophic Letter written on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Leon Trotsky's birth)

Oct. 1, 1979 (N&L, 11/97)

Iran--philosophy and organization (excerpts from a reply to a discussion article on "Iran--philosophy and form of organization" by an Iranian revolutionary activist and thinker)

Nov. 3, 1979 (N&L, 7-8/11)

Grave contradictions of 1979 Iranian Revolution ("Grave Contradictions in the Iranian Revolution," Political-Philosophic Letter)

Nov. 27, 1979 (N&L, 12/99)

What is philosophy? What is revolution? What is anti-imperialism? (excerpts from Political-Philosophic Letter, "Not so Random Thoughts on: What is Philosophy? What is Revolution? 1789-1793; 1848-1850; 1914-1919; 1979")

December 17, 1979 (N&L, 10/01)

On the anniversary of the birth of Erich Fromm (In Memoriam, Erich Fromm)

March 19, 1980 (N&L, 3/80, reprinted 3/00)

May Day as a birthtime of history (excerpt from letter written prior to a talk commemorating May Day and Marx's birthday)

April 8, 1980 (N&L, 5/02)

Women and revolution in Iran (excerpts from the pamphlet 25 years of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S.: A History of Worldwide Revolutionary Developments; excerpts from a letter to her colleagues in News and Letters Committees.)

September 5, 1980; March 10, 1979 (N&L, 3/01, 3-4/11)

Historic Roots of Israel-Palestine conflict (excerpts from "Today and Tomorrow," Perspectives Thesis delivered to the 1980 convention of News and Letters Committees; excerpts from "What to Do: Facing the Depth of Recession and the Myriad Global Political Crisis as the Philosophic Void," Perspectives Thesis delivered to the 1982 convention of News and Letters Committees)

September, 1980, September, 1982 (N&L, 12/00)

Marxism and 'the party' (critique of John Molyneux's Marxism and the Party)

Sept. 4, 1980 (N&L, 4/98)

Women's liberation, then and now (excerpt from draft chapter for Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution)

Oct., 1980 (N&L, 3/98)

Revolution and counter-revolution ("What has happened to the Iranian revolution? Has it already run its course into its opposite, counter-revolution? Or can it be saved and deepened?" Political-Philosophic Letter)

June 25, 1981 (N&L, 4-5/09 continued 6-7/09)

Marxist-Humanism's relation to Marx's Humanism (excerpts from "Marxist-Humanism's Challenge to All Post-Marx Marxists," talk given to News and Letters Committees convention)

Sept. 1981 (N&L, 7-8/05)

East European revolt and the re-creation of Marx's Marxism (excerpts from a lecture "From Revolution to Revolution to Revolution--in Actuality, in Thought, in Vision")

Feb. 14, 1982 (N&L, 10-11/09)

Stop the slaughter of the Palestinians! (excerpts from "The Need for a Total Uprooting: Down with the Perpetrators of the Palestinian Slaughter," part of Perspective Report to 1982 News and Letters Convention)

September 19, 1982 (N&L, 10/82, reprinted 4/02)

Marx and the Black World (excerpts from "A 1980s View of the Two-Way Road Between the U.S. and Africa," 1983 Introduction to American Civilization on Trial, 1963)

1983 (N&L, 2-3/06)

Marx's unchaining of the dialectic (excerpts from a speech given to the National Editorial Board of News & Letters)

Jan. 1, 1983 (N&L, 8-9/00)

LŽvi-Strauss and the battle of ideas (excerpts from "Letter to the Youth on the Needed Total Uprooting of the Old and the Creation of New Human Relations")

August 13, 1983 (N&L, 12/09)

Foundations of Marxist-Humanism (excerpts from letter on new paragraphs added to Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution)

August 26, 1983 (N&L, 3-4/10)

Lesson of Grenada for today (excerpts from "Grenada: Counter-Revolution and Revolution. The Caribbean Today and the Challenge from 30 Years of Movements from Practice that were Themselves a Form of theory," Political-Philosophic Letter)

November 28, 1983 (N&L, 12/03)

Counter-revolution from within revolution: the problem of our times (excerpts from "Where are the 1980s Going? The Imperative Need for a Totally New Direction in Uprooting Capitalism-Imperialism," Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1984-85)

April 26, 1984, (N&L, 7/01)

When News & Letters was born ("From the Birth of News & Letters, 1955, to Marxism and Freedom, 1957," excerpt from The Myriad Global Crises of the l980s and the Nuclear World Since World War II)

March, 1985 (N&L, 5-6/05)

Dialectics of revolution: American roots and world Humanist concepts, part I (excerpts from lecture at the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, at the opening of a three-month exhibition of the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection)

March 21, 1985 (N&L, 9-10/10)

Dialectics of revolution: American roots and world Humanist concepts, part II

March 21, 1985 (N&L, 9-10/10)

Marx's new moments and those in our age (excerpts from a lecture given to workshop/classes on "Current World Events and the Dialectic Method")

April, 1986 (N&L, 10/98)

Capitalist Production/Alienated Labor (excerpt from "Capitalist Production/Alienated Labor: This Nuclear World and its Political Crises," Part II of the Marxist-Humanist Draft Perspectives, 1986-87)

June 17, 1986 (N&L, 7/86 reprinted 10-11/08)

Another look at Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind (letter to an Iranian colleague; Introduction to "Why Hegel's Phenomenology? Why Now?")

June 26, 1986; May 8, 1987 (N&L 1-2/02; reprinted 12/07-1/08)

The Philosophic Moment Marxist-Humanism ("Talking to Myself," document commenting on her May 12, 1953 letter on Hegel's Absolutes)

January 21, 1987 (N&L, 5/03)

'On political divides and philosophic new beginnings', (last "Theory/Practice" column)

June 5, 1987 (N&L, July 25, 1987 In Memoriam special issue, reprinted 12/01)