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January-February 2002Special!The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and
Marx, by Raya Dunayevskaya Dunayevskaya's life and work represent a new combination of passionate
involvement in freedom struggles and intense philosophical explanations. Lead article Bush-Ashcroft declare war on
immigrant communities The ongoing fallout from the September 11 terrorist attack continues to
injure workers, especially immigrant workers. Thousands have lost jobs in the
low-paying service industry. Most pressing of all, Attorney General John
Ashcroft launched a dragnet plan to pick up and interview upwards of 5,000
foreigners. As part of the crackdown, the Immigration and Naturalization Service
(INS) will turn over 314,000 names to the FBI of people it says have disappeared
to avoid deportation. Editorial The opposition to U.S.-dominated global capitalism needs to take into account the fact that rulers like the Taliban, Saddam Hussein, and the Iranian ayatollahs, as well as reactionary movements like Al Qaeda, are so oppressive that the masses living under them will often welcome outside intervention. The failure to acknowledge this will make it impossible to build a serious opposition to U.S. military intervention. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives Another
look at Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind "Everywhere, we are
confronted with the near-unchallenged assertion that we must accept the limits
of actually existing capitalism as our sole alternative. The profound crisis of
the socialist movement over the past decades has made this crisis of the
imagination all the more overwhelming." In memoriam Wang
Ruoshui, Marxist Humanist The passing of Chinese
philosopher and Marxist Humanist Wang Ruoshui is a sad event for all those
aspiring for a human alternative to capitalism. He was one of the first party
intellectuals to openly attack Mao's cult of personality. But it was his
vigorous defense of humanism and his contention that alienation existed in
"socialist" China that earned his name as a pioneering figure in the
effort to break free from party orthodoxy. Black-Red View Martin
Luther King's philosophic legacy Martin Luther King Jr. was
indeed a great leader during the mass movements against segregation, racism,
poverty and the Vietnam war. He understood the reasons for those struggles and
universalized them as struggles of humanity against oppression. Article Anti-government
unrest sweeps Argentina Anti-government demonstrations
have swept Argentina on an almost daily basis since December, when thousands of
hungry and unemployed people expropriated food and household necessities from
supermarkets, instead of scavenging in trash cans and dumps for something to
eat. More... |
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