Section IV Marxist-Humanist Archives and International Relations
A. First Draft of the Marxist-Humanist Archives, July, 1958
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Earliest draft of what would become the ?Raya Dunayevskaya Collection?. Six-page outline of documents 1941-58, with a cover letter signed by the ?REB?, written by Dunayevskaya. Outline prepared for the 1958 News and Letters Committees Convention, the first to have a session devoted to international reports. Outline submitted July 17, 1958
B. European Trip of 1959
(1) ?Della sinistra Internazionale:Memorandum Internazionale?.
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Article by Dunayevskaya published in Italian in Prometeo, Milan, Italy, March 1957. An earlier article by Dunayevskaya had been published in Prometeo, Spring 1956.
(2) Report on 1958 International meeting in Milan, Italy.
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Letter by Bess to Dunayevskaya, July 29, 1958. Handwritten. Excerpts transcribed. Appended to the report are notes on the Milan conference and on discussions with workers, held by Louis Gogol.
(3) Dunayevskaya letters to Bess, while Bess was in Europe as representative of News and Letters Committees.
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June 27, 1958 and July 15, 1958. On C.L.R. James? Facing Reality.
(4) Dunayevskaya letter to Bess. March 20, 1959.
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On Mao?s China and the theory of ?permanent revolution?. Letter written during Dunayevskaya?s preparatory study for her 1959 pamphlet, Nationalism, Communism, Marxist-Humanism and the Afro-Asian Revolutions.
(5) Dunayevskaya letter to Bess. July 29, 1959.
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On preparation for trip to West Europe.
(6) Dunayevskaya?s letters to Onorato Damen, Battaglia Communista, Milan, Italy.
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Dec. 18, 1957 through Sept. 2, 1959. On Damen?s work in securing the Italian edition of Marxism and Freedom; on the ?International Center of Correspondence? established in Milan; on preparations for Dunayevskaya?s trip and the International Conference to be held November 1959. DeGaulle?s rise to power in France is the focal point of discussion of the objective situation.
(7) Dunayevskaya letters to and from Jean Malaquais, Paris.
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May 28, 1958 through June 6, 1958. On their differing views of DeGaulle?s rise to power and on the maturity of the proletariat.
(8) Dunayevskaya letters to and from Maximillien Rubel.
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July 17, 1959 and Aug. 28, 1959. On Marxism and Freedom.
(9) Dunayevskaya letters to Grandizio Munis.
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Sept. 14, 1958 and Oct. 20, 1958. On the break-up of the Johnson-Forest tendency and the publication of Marxism and Freedom.
(10) Dunayevskaya?s letters during her trip to Europe.
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Sept. 11, 1959 through Oct. 30, 1959. Letters written to Marxist-Humanists in the U.S. and to friends in Britain. On preparation for the trip; on prospects for Marxist-Humanism in Britain; on discussions with Harry McShane; on events in Britain, France, and Italy, as well as comments on the African revolutions; on Dunayevskaya lectures and discussions in Italy and in Britain; on the International Conference in Milan, Italy.
(11) Dunayevskaya speech to Italian workers meeting in Genoa, Italy.
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September, 1959. Typescript.
(12) Dunayevskaya speech to meeting in Milan, Italy.
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Sept. 27, 1959. Typescript.
(13) ?Marx?s Debt to Hegel?.
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Speech by Dunayevskaya at University of Leeds, England. Oct. 14, 1959. Typescript.
(14) Notes from the International Conference, Milan, Italy. Nov. 8, 1959.
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Notes for speech by Dunayevskaya and discussion.
(15) ?State Capitalism and the Bureaucrats?.
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Article written by Dunayevskaya while on tour in England. Printed in Socialist Leader, Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. 2, 1960.
(16) Dunayevskaya letter to Chaulieu and Vega.
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Dec. 10, 1959. Letter reports on the decisions taken at the November 1959 Milan conference. which Chaulieu and Vega did not attend. Asks their participation in the discussion following the conference.
(17) ?The World Crisis and the Theoretic Void?.
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Article by Dunayevskaya published in special section of Prometeo, as part of the work of the International Center of Correspondence. The section was established at the Milan conference, November 1959. Published in French, March 1960, in Prometeo. Included also is the original English text, written by Dunayevskaya, Feb. 2, 1960.
(18) ?International Report? by Bess.
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A report on follow-through to Dunayevskaya?s 1959 trip and Bess?s trip in 1958. Given to the News and Letters Committees Convention, September 1960.
(19) ?La teoria dell’ accumulazione della Luxemburg?
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by Dunayevskaya. Article printed in Italian in Prometeo, January 1961.
(20) ?Premesse per l’annalisi della crisi Cubana?,
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by Dunayevskaya. Article printed in Italian in Prometeo, January 1963. On the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
(21) ?La Sfida di Mao Tse-tung?,
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by Dunayevskaya. Italian translation of new concluding chapter to second (U.S.) edition of Marxism and Freedom. Published 1964. Translated by Gigante. For the text of Dunayevskaya?s introduction to the Italian edition of Marxism and Freedom, April 1959, see # 3266.
C. Africa Trip of 1962
(1) Dunayevskaya letters from Africa during her trip. March 28, 1962 through May 23, 1962.
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Written to Marxist-Humanists in the U.S. and other friends. Reports on Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and the Gambia. Includes leaflets, reports on protest meetings and demonstrations, discussions with Nnamdi Azikwe in Nigeria and Leopold Senghor in Senegal. For further discussion on Dunayevskaya?s trip to Africa, see her ?Weekly Political Letters? written during the trip — April 30, 1962 and May 28, 1962 — and her summation, July 6, 1962. These are included with the full series of Weekly Political Letters, beginning on # 2906. Other reports by Dunayevskaya on Africa begin on # 3184.
(2) Notes on the Gambia.
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Taken by Dunayevskaya. On unions, and on the ?Independence Manifesto of the Peoples Progressive Party?.
(3) Horoya, newspaper from Guinea.
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April 10, 1962 issue obtained by Dunayevskaya contains extract of Frantz Fanon?s Wretched of the Earth.
(4) Dunayevskaya letter to Leopold Seder Senghor.
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May 15, 1960. On Marxism and Freedom and on his report to the Constitutive Congress of the Party of African Federation.
(5) Dunayevskaya letter (for the National Editorial Board of News & Letters) to Thomas Kanza, UN Ambassador from the Congo.
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Feb. 17, 1961. On the murder of Patrice Lumumba. Also includes Kanza?s reply, April 7, 1961.
(6) Sekou Toure, President of Guinea, letter to Dunayevskaya.
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A reply to her letter of July 12, 1961.
(7) Dunayevskaya letter to ?Dear Friends?. Sept. 25, 1962.
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Draft of an article for Presence Africaine on ?African and American Socialism: Why Not a New International??. For the article as published, see next entry.
(8) ?Marxist-Humanism?,
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by Raya Dunayevskaya. An article published in Presence Africaine. Paris. Vol. 20, No. 48, 1963. For another article by Dunayevskaya in this journal, see # 3193.
(9) ?On the difference between a Political Tendency and a Political Movement?.
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Letter by Dunayevskaya to Bess, Sept. 20, 1962. Also includes following letter to Bess of Sept. 29, 1962. On the development from state-capitalism to Marxist-Humanism through the break with Johnson, and on the tasks of Marxist-Humanism ahead.
(10) ?Kofi?, Ghana, report on situation in Ghana during Nkrumah period.
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Letter sent to News & Letters, July 14, 1963. Mailed from Takoradi, Ghana. Excerpts published in News & Letters, August-September 1963.
(11) Dunayevskaya letter to ?Eme?, Nigeria, Dec. 11. 1963.
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On correspondence between Nigerian revolutionaries and those in the U.S. Also included is schedule of organizational meetings of ?The Marxist-Humanist?, Nigeria, 1964.
D. Japan and Hong Kong Trip, 1965-66
(1) Dunayevskaya letters from Hong Kong and Japan during her trip, Nov. 25, 1965 through Jan. 2, 1966.
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Written to Marxist-Humanists in the U.S. and to Japanese friends while in Japan. Includes a postcard sent by Dunayevskaya from Hiroshima. Letters report on meetings, discussions, demonstrations in Japan and Hong Kong during Dunayevskaya?s trip. Letters to Japanese revolutionaries include discussion of impact of Maoism, and of future relations between Japanese and U.S. revolutionaries. For more documents from the trip to Japan and Hong Kong, see the section beginning on # 3652.
(2) ?Lecture on Hegel in Japan?.
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Typescript of lecture given in Tokyo, Jan. 2, 1966 to a group of activists and writers from Zenshin.
(3) Brochure for Dunayevskaya lecture at Nagoya University,
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Japan. Dec. 13, 1965.
(4) Dunayevskaya correspondence with Japanese friends in preparation for, and as follow-through to, the December 1965-January 1966 trip.
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Letters from Feb. 21, 1959 through May 21, 1966. Correspondents are Iwasaki Shigeo; Tadayuki Tsushima; Kenichi Koyama; Yoshimasa Yukiyama; Takaaki Sawa. For Dunayevskaya?s analysis of the Japanese New Left that accompanied this correspondence, see her ?Weekly Political Letter? of March 5, 1962.
(5) Japanese translations of writings by Dunayevskaya and other Marxist-Humanists.
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Included here are Workers Battle Automation, a 1960 pamphlet edited by Charles Denby; and ?A New Revision of Marxian Economics? and ?The Nature of the Russian Economy? by Dunayevskaya. Published in Japan by the Social Science Research Club, a shipyard workers? group. For other such translations, see # 3753.
(6) ?Discussion articles from Japan?.
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Published as News and Letters Pre-Convention Bulletin #5, August 1966. Includes contributions from Zenshin on the class struggle in Japan and on the Vietnam War.
(7) Newspaper and journal accounts of Dunayevskaya trip to Japan. December 1965 through January 1966.
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a. Agricultural College News. Agricultural College, Tokyo University. Nov. 20, 1965. A translation of Dunayevskaya?s article, ?Indonesian Communism: a case of world Communism?s decomposition?. b. Zenshin. Tokyo. Dec. 6, 1965. A summary of Dunayevskaya?s speech to Zenshin, Dec. 4, at the Telephone and Telegraph Workers Hall, with summary of her speaking schedule for the tour. c. Asahi Shimbum. Nagoya. Dec. 15, 1965. Article titled ?Recollections of Trotsky; his secretary Mme. Dunayevskaya welcomed?. d. Keio University News. Dec. 15, 1965. Article titled ?Current American Marxism? on Dunayevskaya?s tour. e. Text of speech (Japanese) by Dunayevskaya, Dec. 19, 1965, at Waseda University titled ?Raya Dunayevskaya?s theory and practice?. A booklet issued by the ?Revolutionary Communist League Revolutionary Fraction?. f. Zenshin. Tokyo, Jan. 3, 1966. A report on a speech by Dunayevskaya, Dec. 26, 1965, on ?America?s labor movement and the revolutionary movement?. g. Waseda University News. Tokyo. Jan. 6, 1966. Japanese text of an article by Dunayevskaya on ?Marx’s Humanism: the fundamental basis of today?s anti-Stalinism?.
(8) Dunayevskaya letter to ?Dear Friends?, Jan. 18, 1966.
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Written after her return from Japan, on organization in Japan and in U.S. Marxist-Humanism.