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News and Letters, July 2003Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2003-2004 War,
resistance, and the need for a new alternative The uprising of Black youth in Benton Harbor, Michigan, follows the U.S. victory in Iraq, suggesting that there is a human alternative to Bush's racist, imperialist, state-capitalist USA. What is the logic of capital that gives rise to domination of other countries and exploitation of labor at home? Has the Left shouldered full responsibility for envisioning a human alternative? Join the dialog on these and other ideas about freedom. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya:
Marxist-Humanist Archives On the
economic roots of imperialism Rudolf Hilferding and 'the stability of capitalism' After the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq this
year, revolutionaries are asking what is the nature of imperialism in the age of
state-capitalism? How do we challenge it? What did Marxist theoreticians say
about imperialism when it was new and why are their views significant today? To
illuminate those questions, we reprint a 1951 letter from Raya Dunayevskaya to
C.L.R. James. Woman as Reason When the National Women's Studies Association convened
in New Orleans in June, not everyone was in agreement about how to view the
conditions of women in Afghanistan and Iraq, or on Marxism in women's studies. Article Yanar Mohammed, a founder of Defense of Iraqi Women's
Rights, speaks about the lives of women in Iraq and their future, in light of a
recent past filled with repression and brutality. Article Detroit
corruption reaches the top The Feds are looking into corruption, criminal activity
and coverups in Detroit. The people who live here have suffered from these
problems for a long time. Philosophic Dialogue Rorty,
dialectics, pragmatism's limits By rejecting dialectics, the philosophic strain known as
pragmatism verges on dogmatism of the present conditions, never able to break
the boundaries of the present. Emblematic is Richard Rorty's thought. MORE ARTICLES... |
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