F. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Philosophy and Revolution, January, 1967 – August, 1968.
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written Jan. 11, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13944.pdf
Seeks a copy of paper by Nikolai Bukharin to International Congress of the History of Science and Technology (London, 1931).
2. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written Jan. 16, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13945.pdf
During this period Dunayevskaya is completing the first draft of what became Chapter 1 of P&R — on Hegels Absolutes. Asks for a typist to finish the mss.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Herbert Marcuse, written Jan. 19, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13946.pdf
Reports finishing her draft chapter on Hegels Absolutes; asks if he would be willing to comment on it.
4. Herbert Marcuse letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 25, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13947.pdf
Agrees to read Dunayevskayas draft chapter.
5. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written Jan. 27, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13948.pdf
Sends McShane a copy of a part of Ch. 2 of the book [on Marx]. Asks McShane to search for a Hegelian in Britain willing to comment on the chapter on Hegels Absolutes. The following day, Dunayevskaya drafts a new Outline of Philosophy and Revolution as a whole. (For the text of the outline, see #4334.)
6. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Jan. 30, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13949.pdf
Reports completing the first and most difficult chapter of the entire book, Hegels Absolutes as New Beginnings; gives outline of what became Part I of P&R, Why Hegel? Why Now?; asks for a conference in each News and Letters Committees local on the chapters on Hegel and Marx.
7. Dunayevskaya letter to Karel Kosik, written Jan. 30, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13950.pdf
Sends copy of chapter on Hegels Absolutes as New Beginnings; asks for discussion.
8. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written Feb. 12, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13951.pdf
Sends first two sections of Chapter 2 [on Marx].
9. Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, written Feb. 25, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13952.pdf
Sends Chapter 3 [on Lenin].
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 25, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13953.pdf
Reports all three chapters of draft of Part II — Why Hegel? Why Now? — are finished; discusses plans for theoretical conferences.
11. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written Feb. 16, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13954.pdf
A discussion of approaches to the economic chapter of P&R which S was then drafting.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends (in the Detroit local of News and Letters Committees), written March 13, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13956.pdf
On the nature of the proposed theoretical conference.
13. Philosophic Conference on the New Book.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13957.pdf
Transcript of the Introduction to lecture given by Dunayevskaya in Detroit, March 19, 1967. Transcript not corrected by Dunayevskaya.
14. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 20, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13962.pdf
Gives an outline of P&R as a whole.
15. Egon Lass letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 4, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13963.pdf
Comments on Chapter 1, Dunayevskayas draft chapter on Hegels Absolutes, especially on a point from her discussion of Hegels three final syllogisms of his Philosophy of Mind.
16. Dunayevskaya letter to Egon Lass, written June 12, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13964.pdf
On Hegels principle of negation of negation.
17. Richard Ashcraft letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 14, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13965.pdf
Comments on Dunayevskayas draft chapter on Hegel.
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Aug. 6, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13967.pdf
On preparation for discussion of responsibilities of leadership at News and Letters Committees Plenum; an analysis of Regis Debrays book, Revolution in the Revolution. Parts of this letter appear in Chapter 9 of P&R, New Passions and New Forces.
19. Dunayevskaya, letter to Eugene Walker, written Aug. 9, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13970.pdf
On the urgent need to gather my writings in outside publications, in letters, in Dunayevskayas own files.
20. S (East Europe) letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 13, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13971.pdf
Encloses his draft of chapter on economics, in three parts: 1) State Planning; 2) Analysis of the Third World; 3) Relationship of Industrialized World to Underdeveloped.
21. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written Sept. 10, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13992.pdf
Comments on his draft chapter, and asks for further research.
22. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Sept. 17, 1967
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13994.pdf
.Places herself off limits for all work except work on the writing of P&R.
23. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written Nov. 13, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13995.pdf
On the relationship between philosophy and economics in the work on the book. Dunayevskaya reports beginning work on drafting a chapter on economic reality today.
24. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol, written Nov. 18, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13996.pdf
On theoretical problems which arose in trying to write Chapter 1 on the world economic situation. On the relationship of philosophy to economics, as Dunayevskaya critiques Tony Cliffs article Crisis in China, (International Socialism, 1967).
25. Charles Leinenweber letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 29, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/13999.pdf
Comments on her draft chapter on Leon Trotsky as Theoretician, which was completed Nov. 3, 1967.
26. Noam Chomsky letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 3, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14003.pdf
Asks to read draft chapter on Leon Trotsky. During this period, Dunayevskaya completed her Notes for a series of lectures on Lenin on Hegels Science of Logic (#3885).
27. Dunayevskaya letter to New York Review of Books, written Dec. 19, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14004.pdf
Comments on Connor Cruise OBriens article on the tragedy of Biafra (Dec. 21, 1967). Portions of this letter appear in Chapter 7 of P&R, The African Revolutions and the World Economy.
28. Dunayevskaya letter to Charles Leinenweber, written Dec. 27, 1967.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14007.pdf
A response to his critique of the draft chapter on Leon Trotsky.
29. Dunayevskaya letter to S (Fast Europe), written Jan. 20, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14009.pdf
Requests a copy of Marxs Grundrisse in Russian edition; Marxs original conclusion to Vol. I of Capital, known as Chapter 6. Comments on difficulties in writing the chapter on economics.
30. On Che Guevara.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14010.pdf
Transcript of comments by Dunayevskaya, given Jan. 25, 1968, at the Detroit local of News and Letters Committees, after the murder of Che Guevara. Transcript not corrected by Dunayevskaya.
31. Dunayevskaya letter to Russell Gilmore, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, written Jan. 29, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14013.pdf
On Dunayevskayas documents on the history of the theory of state-capitalism, and the possibility that she might donate them to that repository.
32. Dunayevskaya letter to Alfonso Roberts, written Jan. 29, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14016.pdf
On Louis Althussers essay, Contradiction and Over-determination.
33. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 20, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14018.pdf
Sends draft chapter on todays economic reality as written by S (East Europe) for study. Reports that she is working on her own draft of the same chapter, but that neither chapter will be Part I of the book; Hegel is where we will have to start.
34. Richard Ashcraft letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 12, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14019.pdf
Comments on draft chapter on Leon Trotsky as Theoretician.
35. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Ashcraft, written March 19, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14025.pdf
Response to his critique of draft chapter on Trotsky; discussion of new draft of Lenin chapter.
36. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 19, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14027.pdf
Accompanies draft of Economic Reality and the Dialectics of Liberation; questions whether it will be in Part I of the book.
37. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written March 21, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14028.pdf
Sends her draft chapter on economic reality; compares her approach in this chapter to his draft on the same subject.
38. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol, written May 20, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14029.pdf
On the procedure I now follow on Philosophy and Revolution; plans for future work on the book. Dunayevskaya resumes work on a second draft of Chapter 1, on Hegel.
39. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written May 24, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14033.pdf
On theoretical and organizational perspectives from the vantage point of beginning from the Absolute.
40. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written May 28, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14036.pdf
On P&R as the most concrete of all the tasks facing Dunayevskaya as leader of a revolutionary organization.
41. Dunayevskaya letter to Ivan Svitak, written July 31, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14039.pdf
On events in Czechoslovakia and the need to establish purely philosophic relations among Marxists.
42. Ivan Svitak letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 12, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14040.pdf
Reports that he read Dunayevskayas Marxism and Freedom about three years ago, and sometime I will show you an article where there is a quotation from your work, e.g., on your question of whether man can be free in nowadays society.
G. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Philosophy and Revolution, October, 1968 – April, 1973.
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Oct. 13, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14041.pdf
Reports on progress toward completing the draft of P&R — second draft for most chapters, and first for those chapters that have heretofore been only in my mind. Sends the second draft of Chapter 1, Hegels Absolutes as New Beginnings
2. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Oct. 13, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14043.pdf
A follow-up to the preceding letter; on organizational responsibilities of leadership in matters of philosophy.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Oct. 23, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14045.pdf
On changes in the form of the book; sends new section of Chapter 2, on the Grundrisse.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Oct. 25, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14046.pdf
On Marxs Grundrisse and its relevance today.
5. Olga Domanski letter to Bonnie McFadden, written Oct. 26, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14048.pdf
Outlines Part I of P&R as a whole; asks for help with typing.
6. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Nov. 28, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14050.pdf
Draft of the Call for the Black-Red Conference to be held in Detroit, Jan., 1969. For the report on the conference, at which Dunayevskaya presented themes from P&R to Black workers and civil rights activists, see #4338.
7. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Dec. 7, 1968.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14055.pdf
Sends out the Introduction to Part II of P&R: The Interregnum: Void and Retrogression vs. Movement from Practice; gives Outline for Part II. Also included here are excerpts from the Resident Editorial Board minutes of Dec. 15, 1968, on Part II.
8. Dunayevskaya letter to Will Stein, written Jan. 3, 1969.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14057.pdf
Responds to Steins notes on Dunayevskayas draft of Chapter 1 of P&R.
9. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 7, 1969.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14060.pdf
On a possible re-structuring of Parts II and III of P&R.
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written July 5, 1969.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14061.pdf
Reports that she has just completed the preparation of her archives for donation to Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs; discusses the whole period 1941-55 as Marxist-Humanism. During this period Dunayevskaya also wrote another document summarizing her work, The Newness of Our Philosophic-Historic Contribution, #4407.
11. Philosophy and Leadership. Notes for a presentation by Dunayevskaya to Executive Session of News and Letters Committees Plenum, Aug. 31, 1969.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14062.pdf
Also included is an abbreviated transcript of Dunayevskayas report.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, Mike Connolly, and Will Stein, written Oct. 14, 1969.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14070.pdf
On archives of Marxist-Humanism as a continuing, living experience.
13. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written Oct. 27, 1969.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14071.pdf
On Dunayevskayas relationship with Tony Cliff, and on state-capitalist theory. Asks McShane to obtain A.V. Millers new translation of Hegels Science of Logic for her.
14. Dunayevskaya letter to S (East Europe), written Oct. 27, 1969.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14073.pdf
Asks for discussion on philosophy and reality in East Europe.
15. Dunayevskaya letter to Nick Ternette, written Dec. 8, 1969.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14074.pdf
Discussion of the history of Marxs Grundrisse, part of which Dunayevskaya had sent to Ternette for translation as possible appendix to P&R.
16. Mihailo Markovic letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 2, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14076.pdf
Comments on draft of Chapter 1 of P&R, on Hegel.
17. Dunayevskaya letter to Freely Perlman, written Jan. 4, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14080.pdf
Response to Perlmans critique of several draft chapters of P&R; a discussion of Hegel, Sartre and Marx in the book.
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Mihailo Markovic, written Jan. 7, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14082.pdf
Responds to Markovics critique of Chapter 1 of P&R; on Hegels Absolutes and their ramifications for Marx and Lenin.
19. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Jan. 15, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14084.pdf
On why she has decided to bring in Hegels discussion on Attitudes to Objectivity in the Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences into her discussion of Science of Logic in Chapter 1 of P&R. During this period, Dunayevskaya was at work on a third draft of Chapter 1 of the book.
20. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Feb. 2, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14086.pdf
Reports finishing third draft of Chapter 1; comments on her 1953 letters on Hegels Absolutes as cause of the break-up of Correspondence Committees.
21. Dunayevskaya letter to J.N. Findlay, written Feb. 9, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14087.pdf
On Hegel as a contemporary of ours; outlines Part I of P&R. In the following three weeks, Dunayevskaya completed a second draft of Chapter 3, on Lenin.
22. Dunayevskaya letter to Paul Piccone, Telos, written May 7, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14088.pdf
On the title of her article on Lenin, submitted to Telos for publication. The article was published by Telos (Spring, 1970), and is already included in the Dunayevskaya Collection, #4516.
23. Dunayevskaya letter to Paul Piccone, written Aug. 1, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14089.pdf
Accepts Piccones invitation to discuss her work on P&R at the Telos conference, Oct. 1970. Also included is a P.S. written Aug. 1, 1970, on Dunayevskayas relationship with Paul Buhle; and a tentative schedule of the conference.
24. Dunayevskaya letter to Mihailo Markovic, written Sept. 15, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14093.pdf
Asks if he would be interested in working on a chapter on the relationship of philosophy to revolution in East Europe.
25. Report on The First Telos International Conference: The New Marxism, Telos, (Fall, 1970).
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14094.pdf
Excerpts from report on the conference in which Dunayevskaya participated, as written up by Paul Piccone.
26. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written Oct. 26, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14098.pdf
Asks for his collaboration in work on a new last chapter of P&R, on the Black Dimension at home rather than abroad.
27. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Nov. 11, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14099.pdf
On just-completed second draft of Chapter 2, on Marx.
28. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written Nov. 14, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14101.pdf
On the methodological problems of Part II, which she now began to re-write.
29. Dunayevskaya letter to Jade, written Dec. 6, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14103.pdf
Written during the re-writing of the chapter on Mao, Dunayevskaya comments on Joseph Levensons last article in China Quarterly (1969), Communist China in Time and Space: Roots and Rootlessness. Levenson had just died.
30. Dunayevskaya letter to Mihailo Markovic, written Dec. 9, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14104.pdf
On the need for a chapter in Part III of P&R on East Europe in the period since 1963.
31. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written Dec. 10, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14105.pdf
Reports finishing the chapter on Mao; suggests preparation for their collaboration on Chapter 9, New Passions and New Forces.
32. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Dec. 14, 1970.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14106.pdf
On the completion of the second draft of Part II of P&R, with the exception of the chapter on Sartre.
33. Will Stein letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 4, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14108.pdf
Asks for clarification of the relationship between revolutionary subjects and philosophy of revolution.
34. Dunayevskaya letter to Will Stein, Mike Connolly, and Bonnie McFadden, written Jan. 15, 1971. Response to Steins letter of Jan. 4, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14110.pdf
On the relationship between subjects of revolution and a philosophy of liberation.
35. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written Feb. 4, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14112.pdf
On the Hegelian concepts of Fact and Ground in the Smaller Logic.
36. John Alan letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 23, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14113.pdf
Comments on Chapter 9, New Passions and New Forces; on Black Masses, as vanguard. Two days earlier, Dunayevskaya met with Womens Liberationists, to discuss Part III of P&R.
37. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written March 3, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14114.pdf
Response to Alans letter of Feb. 23, 1971.
38. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Greeman, written March 5, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14115.pdf
Asks Greeman (in Paris) to obtain Reinhart Klemens Maurers Hegel and das Ende der Geschichte (1965).
39. Dunayevskaya letter to Ron Brokmeyer, written March 10, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14117.pdf
Asks for translation of pp. 85-90 of Maurers book; discusses the importance of the three final syllogisms of Hegels Philosophy of Mind, on which Maurer is commenting in those pages. Brokmeyer, in turn, asked Fred Ehrmann to carry out the translation work.
40. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Colleagues, written March 27, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14123.pdf
On leadership responsibilities as relationship to P&R.
41. Mihailo Markovic letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 23, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14124.pdf
Comments on just completed draft of Chapter 8 of P&R, on State-capitalism and the East European Revolts.
42. S (East Europe) letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 6, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14126.pdf
Comments on draft of Chapter 8 of P&R, especially on the Polish workers revolt of 1970-71.
43. Dunayevskaya letter to John ONeill, written May 25, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14129.pdf
Reports she has just finished Chapter 9, and that the book as a whole is completed. Includes a brief contents page of all nine chapters. ONeill was at that time at work on a Preface to P&R.
44. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written Sept. 20, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14130.pdf
Asks Domanski to correct the contents page of P&R to reflect the new title Dunayevskaya had just chosen for Chapter 1 Absolute Negativity as New Beginning. Dunayevskaya was at this time working on final editing of all the chapters of P&R.
45. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol and Eugene Walker, written Oct. 5, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14131.pdf
Proposes issuing a special pamphlet of her 1953 Letters on Hegels Absolutes; discusses Hegels three final syllogisms of Philosophy of Mind.
46. Hayden White letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 5, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14133.pdf
Comments on Chapter 1, on Hegel.
47. Dunayevskaya letter to Hayden White, written Nov. 9, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14134.pdf
On the Sartre chapter of P&R. Dunayevskaya had just completed a draft of her Introduction to P&R on Nov. 7, 1971.
48. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 10, 1971.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14135.pdf
Argues against Dunayevskayas thesis: Why Hegel? Why Now?.
49. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, Dell Books, written Jan. 31, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14139.pdf
Sends the finished mss. of P&R.
50. Dunayevskaya letter to the National Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, written Feb. 1, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14140.pdf
Reports that the book has been mailed to publishers; asks for internalization of it as historic transition point; discusses three final syllogisms of Hegels Philosophy of Mind.
51. Dunayevskaya letter to McKim Steele, written May 16, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14143.pdf
On the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary movement.
52. Hayden White letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 31, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14146.pdf
Comments on Chapter 2 of P&R, on Marx.
53. Dunayevskaya letter to Hayden White, written July 15, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14147.pdf
Reports that she has signed a contract for the publication of P&R with Dell; discusses Whites critique of chapter on Marx.
54. Dunayevskaya letter to John ONeill, written July 17, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14148.pdf
Reports that Dell will not agree to print O’Neills preface.
55. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written July 18, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14149.pdf
Objects to Dunayevskayas proposed sub-title for P&R Marxist-Humanism.
56. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 1, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14150.pdf
Suggests sub-title for P&R.
57. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 1, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14151.pdf
Editorial comments and suggestions on Part I of P&R.
58. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 2, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14154.pdf
Editorial comments and suggestions on Parts II and III.
59. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 3, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14157.pdf
Suggests eliminating the Appendix (translation from Marxs Grundrisse), and the chapter on Sartre.
60. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written Nov. 13, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14158.pdf
Explains why she cannot agree to drop the Sartre chapter.
61. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written Nov. 17, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14160.pdf
Responds to Huetts suggestions on Parts II and III. Included here also is Dunayevskayas letter of Nov. 17, 1972 to the editorial staff at Dell, detailing mss. changes.
62. Richard Huett letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 27, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14164.pdf
Final editorial questions and comments; suggests sub-title for P&R: From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao.
63. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written Nov. 29, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14165.pdf
Response to editorial suggestions and proposal on sub-title.
64. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 14, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14166.pdf
On his opposition to Dunayevskayas argument for Why Hegel? Why Now? Included here are both the handwritten original and a typed transcript.
65. Dunayevskaya letter to Peter Bergmann, written Dec. 22, 1972.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14175.pdf
Brief response to his critique. The full texts of both Bergmanns critique and Dunayevskayas response are included in Vol. XII of the Collection, #10093.
66. Erich Fromm letter of Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 8, 1973.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14176.pdf
Offers to write a statement on P&R for use by the publisher.
67. Iring Fetscher letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 18, 1973.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14177.pdf
Sends comments on his reading of the mss. of P&R. Included here are Fetschers detailed comments. Some of the handnotes on the comments are Fetschers; others are by Dunayevskaya.
68. Dunayevskaya letter to Iring Fetscher, written Jan. 27, 1973.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14181.pdf
Response to Fetschers critique of her mss.
69. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 12, 1973.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14182.pdf
On Philosophy and Revolution as Organization Builder; on the relationship of Lenin to Lassalles concept of organization.
70. Harry McShane letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 4, 1973.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14185.pdf
On his own remembrances of Lenin and Kautsky on organization in the pre-World War I period. Included here are both the handwritten original and a typed transcript.
71. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written March 9, 1973.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14187.pdf
Responds to McShanes letter of March 4, 1973. On the dichotomy between philosophy and organization in Lenin.
72. Erich Fromm telegram to Dunayevskaya, written March 25, 1973
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14188.pdf
Suggests four editorial corrections in the mss.
73. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written April 9, 1973.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14189.pdf
Returns galley proofs for Part II of P&R; notes major transpositions in the sequence of Chapter 5, on Mao Tse-tung.