Volume 12 – Section 6

  • Section VI The Marxist-Humanist Archives — the New Additions as well as New Findings from the Old

  • A. From the March, 1985 Marxist-Humanist Archives Exhibit and Lecture to the August, 1985 National Plenum

  • (1) “Dialectics of Revolution: American Roots and Marx’s World Humanist Concepts”.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10218.pdf

    A lecture by Raya Dunayevskaya and an exhibit prepared by Michael Connolly and Olga Domanski at Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, March 21, 1985. On the microfilm is a special section of News & Letters, April; 1985, devoted to coverage of the lecture and exhibit. Includes presentation by Dunayevskaya on her life and work; “Raya Dunayevskaya’s living archives” by Eugene Walker; “Origins of Black Marxism” by Lou Turner; “Readers’ Views from the Archives lecture audience”, edited by Michael Connolly.

  • (4) “Political-Philosophic Notes on Reagan’s Visit to Bitburg”.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10236.pdf

    An essay by Dunayevskaya, published in News & Letters, June 1985. Connects current world events as seen in Reagan’s May 1985 trip to the 1937 Spanish Revolution and to contradictions in post-World War II Europe.

  • (6) “Dunayevskaya on Rosa Luxemburg, women and revolution: a response to Peter Beilharz”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10241.pdf

    by Olga Domanski. A critique of Beilharz’s review of Dunayevskaya’s Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution. Published in Thesis 11, Melbourne, Australia, November 1984-March 1985.

  • (7) Rosa Luxemburgo, la liberacion feminina y la filosofia marxista de la revolucion

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10244.pdf

    by Raya Dunayevskaya. Spanish edition of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, published by Fondo de Cultura Economica in Mexico City, Mexico, 1985. Translated by Juan Jose Utrilla. Two major excerpts from this work were published in Spanish in advance of their publication in book form: a. “Los Cuadernos Etnologicos de Marx” by Raya Dunayevskaya. Selections from Ch.12 of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution on Karl Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks. Published in Criticas de la Economia Politica, 22/23, 1984, a special issue devoted to “Karl Marx: Life and Work”. b. “Teorias de la revolucion permanente” by Raya Dunayevskaya. Selections from Ch.11 and the Afterword to Ch.11 of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution organized in such a way as to present and contrast Luxemburg, Trotsky and Marx on theories of permanent revolution. Published in Criticas de la Economia Politica, No.26, 1985, a special issue devoted to “Revolutionary Theory and Action.”

  • (8) Pre-Plenum Discussion 1985: Documents from the News and Letters Committees Bulletins.

    These include:

  • a. Pre-Plenum Discussion Bulletin #1, July, 1985.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10266.pdf

    Selected articles are: “Official Call for 1985 Plenum” by the Resident Editorial Board; “A Revolutionary Critical Look Over the Historic Barrier” by Jim Mills; “Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks: Its Relation to Women’s Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution” by Peter Wermuth; “An Exchange of Letters between Roy and Raya on Philosophy and Revolution”.

  • c. Pre-Plenum Discussion Bulletin #5, August, 1985.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10318.pdf

    Selected articles include: “Unchaining the Dialectics of Revolution: in Hegel, in Marx, in Marxist-Humanism” by Eugene Walker; “On ‘The concrete-universal: a retrospective look at 30 years of News & Letters’” by Kevin A. Barry; “Marxist-Humanism’s View of Hegel’s Absolutes: Draft of a Critical Essay” by Lou Turner.

  • B. A Retrospective/Perspective Look at 30 Years of News & Letters: From the 1985 Plenum to the New Edition of Frantz Fanon, Soweto and American Black Thought

  • (2) “The Undeclared and Ongoing Civil War in South Africa”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10385.pdf

    by Raya Dunayevskaya. A lead article in News & Letters, October 1985, which expands the analysis of South African events and the task of Marxist-Humanists given by Dunayevskaya at the 1985 Plenum.

  • (3) “A View of Forms of Revolutionary Journalism: on the Road to a Bi-Weekly News & Letters”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10388.pdf

    by Eugene Walker, Managing Editor. Published as Post-Plenum Bulletin #1, September 1985. A report to the 1985 Plenum.

  • (4) Post-Plenum Bulletin #3, October 1985,

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10400.pdf

    includes: “On Organization and Women’s Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution” by Olga Domanski; “Marxist-Humanist Philosophy in Readers’ Views and in News and Letters Committees Organization” by Michael Connolly. Reports given to the 1985 Plenum.

  • (5) “Still another version of the dialectic?”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10421.pdf

    by Raya Dunayevskaya. A “Theory/Practice” column published in News & Letters, December 1985. A critique of David MacGregor’s The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx.

  • (7) “A Decade in the Methodology of Marxist-Humanist Perspectives—1975-1985”,

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10424.pdf

    an essay by Eugene Walker. Published as a News and Letters Discussion Bulletin, January 1986. Includes a study of ten years of Marxist-Humanist Perspective Theses; an Index to both Draft and Full Perspectives, 1975-85; and a re-printing of the Table of Contents of each of them.

  • (8) First Farsi publication of Karl Marx: Economic Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10476.pdf

    Published by Anjoman Azadi (Iranian Marxist-Humanists), January 1986. Includes an Introduction to the Farsi edition by Raya Dunayevskaya, and a Preface by Raha, an Iranian revolutionary in exile.

  • (9) “New Beginnings that Determine the End”.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10492.pdf

    A report by Raya Dunayevskaya to the Expanded Resident Editorial Board meeting of News and Letters Committees, Dec. 29, 1985. Published as special bulletin, January 1986.

  • (11) “The concrete-Universal: a retrospective/perspective look at thirty years of News & Letters”.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10515.pdf

    A study by Raya Dunayevskaya begun for the 30th anniversary of the first issue of News & Letters, June 24, 1955. Published in three parts in News & Letters: July 1985; November 1985; March 1986. Forthcoming as a News and Letters Committees pamphlet.

  • (12) Expanded 1986 edition of Frantz Fanon, Soweto and American Black Thought,

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/10528.pdf

    by Lou Turner and John Alan. Published in Black History Month, February 1986, with new Introduction/Overview by Raya Dunayevskaya, Lou Turner and John Alan. New Appendices on Negritude and Language by Haitian poet, Rene Depestre, and Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and on “Grenada: Counter-Revolution and Revolution” by Raya Dunayevskaya. Includes photographs of 1985 founding Convention of Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) sent to News & Letters direct from South Africa.

  • Volume XII concludes on 10637.