Volume 14 – Section 8

  • C. Draft Chapters of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution

    The first chapter of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution was drafted by Dunayevskaya in the period Sept.-Dec., 1978. Entitled “Relationship of Philosophy and Revolution to Women’s Liberation: Marx’s and Engels’ Studies Contrasted,” this draft chapter was published in News & Letters (Jan-Feb, 1979), and included in Vol. X of the Dunayevskaya Collection (#6467). Two other draft chapters were also published in News & Letters and previously included in this collection: Chapter 1 of the book, “Before and After the 1905 Revolution: Two Turning Points in Luxemburg’s Life” (#6420); and Chapter 2, “The Break with Kautsky, 1910-11” (#6426). Included here are drafts of chapters which have not previously been circulated to a wide audience, although they were shared with a number of women’s liberation activists, intellectuals, and members of News and Letters Committees at the time they were written.

  • 2. Draft of Chapter III. Luxemburg’s Interregnum and Excursus Into Marx’s New Continent of Thought—From the “National Question” (Before and During World War I) to Accumulation of Capital.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14800.pdf

    Written January, 1980. Portions of this draft chapter were included in what became Chapter 4 of the book as published; other parts were included in Chapter 9 and Chapter 12. For Dunayevskaya’s comments on this draft chapter as she completed it, see her letter of Jan. 14, 1980 (#6448). Also included here are “Further Random Notes on Chapter 3,” written by Dunayevskaya sometime during 1980.

  • 3. Draft of Chapter IV. Marx’s and Luxemburg’s Theories of Accumulation of Capital, Its Crises and Inevitable Downfall. Written April, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14820.pdf

    This draft chapter, as revised, became Chapter 3 of the book as published.

  • 5. Notes on Chapter 5 — World War I and Revolutions of 1917, 1919.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14852.pdf

    This draft chapter, written in September, 1980, is the only draft known of Chapter 5 of the book. For a letter by Dunayevskaya on this draft, see #6459.

  • 6. Rough Draft of Chapter 7—“Spontaneity, Organization, Philosophy (Dialectics).”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14866.pdf

    Probably written in September, 1980. This chapter is not included in the book in the form seen here; it was dropped by March, 1981. Parts of this mss., however, appear in Chapter 4 and Chapter 11 of the book as published.

  • 7. Very Rough Draft of Final Chapter—“Philosophy of Revolution: The Development of Marx from a Critic of Hegel to the Author of Capital and Theorist of Permanent Revolution.”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14884.pdf

    Written in September, 1980. One month later, Dunayevskaya decided to expand this chapter into three chapters, calling it “a whole Part” of the book.

  • 8. Women’s Liberation, Then and Now.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14894.pdf

    Draft of what was then Chapter 6 of the book. Written October, 1980, and circulated to members of Women’s Liberation-News and Letters Committees for discussion. For Dunayevskaya’s letter to Women’s Liberation-News and Letters Committees as she completed this draft chapter, see #6459. This draft chapter was later expanded into Part II of the book, “The Women’s Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason.”

  • 9. Chapter 10. Philosopher of Permanent Revolution and Organization Man.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14922.pdf

    Written in early December, 1980. This is a draft of what became Chapter 11 of the book as published, “The Philosopher of Permanent Revolution Creates New Ground for Organization.”

  • 10. Chapter 10, Section 3. The Unknown Ethnological Notebooks, the Unread Drafts of Letters to Zasulich, as Well as Undigested 1882 Preface to the Russian Edition of the Communist Manifesto.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14941.pdf

    Completed Dec. 23, 1980. This is the first draft of what became Chapter 12 of the book as published, “The Last Writings of Marx Point a Trail to the 1980s,” although it does not include major elements of the finished chapter, specifically Dunayevskaya’s new category, “Post-Marx Marxism as a pejorative.”

  • 13. Notes for Changes on the Book, Chapter by Chapter, Even Though All I’m Interested In Is a New Chapter 12.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14978.pdf

    Notes for changes in the mss. of the book as a whole, written by Dunayevskaya in August, 1981. Page references are to the mss. copy of the book, typed in May, 1981. These notes include a four-page outline of a “New Chapter 12 to be entitled: New Grounds for the 1980s Emerge on the 100th Anniversary of Marx’s Last Writings.” Dunayevskaya added a later version of Chapter 12 to the mss. copy of the book in September, 1981.

  • 14. New Additions to the Mss. As of Dec. 1, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14984.pdf

    A compilation of additions made by Dunayevskaya to the mss. of the book after it was turned in to the publisher. Not all of the additions created by Dunayevskaya in this period are included here, and further changes in the text of the book were added as late as February, 1982, during the reading of the galley proofs. The passages added here include Dunayevskaya’s addition of an entirely new “Section 4” of Chapter 12, entitled “A 1980s View,” probably written in late October, 1981.

  • D. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, March, 1975- June, 1978

  • 1. Women’s Creativity and Liberation: Nationally and Internationally.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/14997.pdf

    A brief summary of a talk given by Dunayevskaya to Wayne State University (Detroit) Women’s Liberation, March 7, 1975. Summary by Olga Domanski, checked by Dunayevskaya.

  • 2. Olga (Sufritz) Domanski letter to Seymour Ricklin, University Center for Adult Education, Detroit, written June 13, 1975.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15001.pdf

    Domanski, as secretary to Dunayevskaya, submits Dunayevskaya’s proposal to teach a course at UCAE on “Women as Reason as Well as Force, Nationally and Internationally.” The course was to be given in September and October, 1975. Included also is a second letter, written by Domanski on June 18, 1975, modifying the title to “Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries,” and proposing a preliminary reading list for the classes.

  • 3. Dialectics of Leadership, summary of a speech by Dunayevskaya to Executive Session of News and Letters Committees Plenum, Aug. 31, 1975.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15003.pdf

    Dunayevskaya’s report had three parts: 1) “the artificer, laws of the heart and the fetishism of commodities”; 2) “the dialectics of an epoch in crisis and a period of revolution”; 3) “what to do?”

  • 5. Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15008.pdf

    A series of lectures by Dunayevskaya, given at University Center for Adult Education in Detroit, Sept. 22 – Oct. 27, 1975. Included here is the brochure for the class series. A summary of the six lectures, written by Olga Domanski, has already been included in the Dunayevskaya Collection (#5363). Audio tapes of the six lectures are on deposit at Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs. During the lecture series, Dunayevskaya announced that she intended to develop her work on this subject into a new book.

  • 6. Raya Dunayevskaya on Tour.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15011.pdf

    A listing of dates, places, and topics from Dunayevskaya’s East Coast and Midwest lecture tour, April 7 – April 29, 1976. Dunayevskaya’s topics on the tour included the new revolutions in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, which she had discussed in her Political-Philosophic Letter, “Will the revolution in Portugal advance?” (#5182), and further discussion on “Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries.” At the conclusion of her tour in New York, she presented her view of the philosophic foundations of all her new work: “Our Original Contribution to the Dialectic of the Absolute Idea as New Beginning” (#5622).

  • 7. Dunayevskaya presentation on “East-Coast Report and Next Book-to-be,” given to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, May 3, 1976.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15013.pdf

    Presentation proposes a new title for the book: “Rosa Luxemburg, Today’s Women Theorists, and the Women’s Liberation Movement.”

  • 10. Dunayevskaya letter to Erich Fromm, written July 15, 1976.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15018.pdf

    On the “relationship between Rosa Luxemburg and the Women’s Liberation Movement”; on Dunayevskaya’s work on “Absolute Negativity as New Beginning.” Dunayevskaya’s essay, “Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries,” had just been published by Women’s Liberation-News and Letters Committees as Appendix to their pamphlet, Working Women for Freedom. (#5370).

  • 11. Dialectics of Leadership as the Creation of a Philosophic Nucleus in History’s Mirror, and Today’s Objective Crises, OR Self-Thinking Idea as the Self-Bringing Forth of Liberty.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15019.pdf

    Presentation by Dunayevskaya to Executive Session of Convention of News and Letters Committees, given Sept. 5, 1976. Brief excerpts only.

  • 14. Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fanon and the Dialectics of Liberation Today.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15024.pdf

    Presentation by Dunayevskaya to series of News and Letters Committees classes on Philosophy and Revolution, given Dec. 5, 1976. Transcript of speech by Dunayevskaya was checked by her.

  • 15. Philosophy and Revolution: New Stage of Thought or New Form of Revolt?

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15038.pdf

    Presentation by Dunayevskaya to final class in Philosophy and Revolution, given March 27, 1977. Transcript of speech by Dunayevskaya was checked by her.

  • 19. Dunayevskaya letter to Suzanne Casey, written July 18, 1977.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15066.pdf

    On Dunayevskaya’s new perspective on the question of male chauvinism after the publication of her essay “Sexism, Politics and Revolution in Mao’s China” (#5423). Dunayevskaya suggests the possibility of changing the title of the book-to-be to: “Sexism, Politics and Revolution,” with the previously suggested title becoming the sub-title.

  • 22. Dunayevskaya letter to Therese S. (Paris, France), written Oct. 18, 1977.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15070.pdf

    Asks for background on Edith Thomas, author of The Women Incendiaries; discusses women’s liberation in France in Marx’s day and in the post-World War II period.

  • 26. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Sisters,” written Nov. 26, 1977.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15075.pdf

    On a television discussion on “Sexism, Politics and Revolution” in which Dunayevskaya participated; on the International Women’s Year Conference in Houston, Texas.

  • 32. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given June 12, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15085.pdf

    On the first draft of her Perspectives report. Dunayevskaya here proposes changing the title of her book-to-be to “Rosa Luxemburg, Today’s Women’s Liberation Movement and Marx’s Theory of Revolution.”

  • 33. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, Michael Connolly and Eugene Walker, written June 26, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15088.pdf

    On preparations for the News and Letters Committees Convention. Dunayevskaya discusses the need for “inwardization,” for “recollection,” even “when one does not know the whole RL book.”

  • 34. Dunayevskaya letter to Sheila Rowbotham, written June 29, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15090.pdf

    Asks Rowbotham to correspond with her on the work on the book. The following day, June 30, 1978, Dunayevskaya writes to Harry McShane on the work on the book. This letter to McShane was selected by Dunayevskaya as the first letter in a collection of letters on the process of writing Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution; they are included in an earlier volume of the Dunayevskaya Collection (#6432).

  • E. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, August, 1978 – September, 1979

  • 2. Stephen Bronner letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 27, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15094.pdf

    Responds to Dunayevskaya’s letter; cites points of agreement and disagreement on Luxemburg. Also included here is a brief reply from Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 9, 1978.

  • 4. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Colleagues,” written Sept. 24, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15099.pdf

    Addressed to “all teachers, students, readers, and re-readers of Marxism and Freedom”; calls attention to a paragraph on p. 89 of this 1957 work by Dunayevskaya, which concerns the relationship between “the limits of a theoretical work” and “the indispensability of the theoretician.”

  • 6. A Note on Pope John Paul II.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15102.pdf

    A note by Dunayevskaya written Oct. 16, 1978 on the implications, especially for women’s liberation and for Latin America, of the election of Cardinal Wojtyla as Pope. Included here is the note as printed in News & Letters (November, 1978). The following day Dunayevskaya wrote a letter to “Dear Sisters,” discussing her new study of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks as contrasted to Engels’ Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. This letter is already included in the Dunayevskaya Collection (#6434).

  • 7. Mikhail Vitkin letter to Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 29, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15103.pdf

    In Russian. Included here is Dunayevskaya’s response to Vitkin, on her dissatisfaction with Ryazanov’s reports on Marx’s archives. Dunayevskaya’s response is dated Nov. 6, 1978.

  • 8. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written Nov. 10, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15106.pdf

    On the divergence between Marx and Engels, as seen in Engels’ 1888 preface to the Communist Manifesto. On the same day, Dunayevskaya completed her first draft chapter of the new book and wrote a letter to “Dear Friends,” describing its content (#6436).

  • 9. Sheila Rowbotham, letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 23, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15108.pdf

    On women’s liberation and the Left in Britain. Included here is handwritten letter by Rowbotham and “rough transcript” of the letter (typewritten), with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.

  • 10. Dunayevskaya letter to Lawrence Krader (Berlin, West Germany), written Nov. 30, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15112.pdf

    Comments on his Introduction to, and editing of, Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks (Van Gorcum, 1972); sends him galley proofs of her first draft chapter from her “work-in-progress,” “Marx’s and Engels’ Studies Contrasted: Relationship of Philosophy and Revolution to Women’s Liberation.” Included here also is Krader’s response, written Dec. 7, 1978 — a discussion of the critical reception of his book.

  • 11. Dunayevskaya letter to Angela Terrano, written Dec. 7, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15117.pdf

    Asks for Terrano’s recollections of Dunayevskaya’s 1952 or 1953 discussions with Black women workers on Simon De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.

  • 12. Dunayevskaya letter to Sheila Rowbotham, written Dec. 12, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15118.pdf

    Responds to Rowbotham’s letter of Nov. 23; on women’s liberation, the vanguard parties of the Left, and forms of organization, as related to the draft chapter just completed.

  • 13. Lawrence Krader letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 31, 1978.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15120.pdf

    Comments on Dunayevskaya’s draft chapter and on his own views on women’s liberation, on tendencies within Marxism, and within anthropology. Over the next three months, Dunayevskaya and Krader exchanged eight more letters, two by Dunayevskaya, and five by Krader, concluding with her letter of March 29, 1979. All are included here. The correspondence includes discussion and sharp debate over women’s liberation, the nature of the Russian and world economy today, and the differences between Marx and Engels, especially in relation to the Hegelian dialectic. Krader also comments on his work with still unpublished writings of Marx.

  • 14. Dunayevskaya letter to Mikhail Vitkin, written Jan. 16, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15139.pdf

    Asks for a dialogue on “the interrelationship of Man/Woman in Marx in 1844 and 1882.” Also included here is a letter from Vitkin to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 14, 1978 (in Russian).

  • 15. Remarks by Dunayevskaya at a meeting sponsored by News and Letters Committees, (Detroit) on the first draft chapter of the book, Feb. 4, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15142.pdf

    Transcript of remarks was not checked by Dunayevskaya.

  • 16. Allison Jaggar letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 15, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15144.pdf

    Comments on the first draft chapter of Dunayevskaya’s book as published in News & Letters (Jan.-Feb., 1979). Included here is Dunayevskaya’s response, written Feb. 23, 1979.

  • 17. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Friends,” written Feb. 16, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15146.pdf

    A discussion of Dunayevskaya’s just-completed trip to Mexico. Reports on her meetings with a peasant opposition leader and with women’s liberationists, and relates both to the work on Rosa Luxemburg, Today’s Women’s Liberation Movement, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution.”

  • 18. Dunayevskaya letter to Mikhail Vitkin, written March 2, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15149.pdf

    Comments on Vitkin’s book, The Orient in the Philosophic-Historic Conception of Marx and Engels (1972), and on the differences between Marx and Engels on the Asiatic mode of production.

  • 19. Rosa Luxemburg and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, a talk given at Wayne State University (Detroit), International Women’s Day, March 8, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15151.pdf

    Dunayevskaya’s presentation begins with the mass march of Iranian women held that day against Khomeini’s attacks on women’s freedom. This transcription was not checked by Dunayevskaya. Also included here is Dunayevskaya’s letter to “Dear Friends,” written March 10, 1979, describing the International Women’s Day meeting, the events in Iran, and her discussions with an Iranian revolutionary en route to Iran on her ideas for the publication of a Farsi-language pamphlet on International Women’s Day. Throughout this period, Dunayevskaya worked intensively with Iranian revolutionaries and wrote a series of “Political-Philosophic Letters” on the Iranian Revolution (#5998).

  • 20. Additions to the Syllabus for the Philosophy and Revolution Classes, written by Dunayevskaya May 1-2, 1979, for classes in her 1973 book given by News and Letters Committees.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15168.pdf

    Dunayevskaya re-titles her final lecture as “From Dialectic Methodology to the Dialectics of Liberation.”

  • 21. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 4, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15171.pdf

    Comments on the first draft chapter of Dunayevskaya’s book, focusing on the relationship between Marx and Engels. Bergmann’s letter, handwritten, is also transcribed in typescript. Dunayevskaya’s response, written June 18, 1979, is also included.

  • 22. Dunayevskaya letter to “A” (Tehran, Iran), written June 14, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15175.pdf

    Responds to his report on Marxist-Humanist revolutionary activity in Iran, and proposes a “Philosophic Action Group” for work there. Also included is Dunayevskaya’s first draft of her Introduction to an Iranian edition of Marx’s 1844 Humanist Essays, which these Iranian friends planned to publish.

  • 24. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 21, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15180.pdf

    On the relationship of Marx to Engels, and of Marx to Hegel. Bergmann’s original letter (handwritten) is missing, but a typed transcription of the letter, with Dunayevskaya’s marginalia, is included.

  • 25. Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, written June 23, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15185.pdf

    On the relationship of Engels to Marx, and its impact on all Marxism after Marx’s death, especially on the question of the relationship of philosophy to organization.

  • 26. Dunayevskaya letter to Peter Wermuth, written July 28, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15186.pdf

    Asks for his assistance in locating and translating certain passages in works by Luxemburg; discusses Lenin’s critique of Trotsky’s conciliationism and her own view.

  • 28. Dunayevskaya letter to Joseph O’Malley, written Aug. 30, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15190.pdf

    Calls his attention to Marx’s 1880-82 Ethnological Notebooks, and asks correction of O’Malley’s statement in his Introduction to Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right that Marx’s “productive years of research” ended in 1878. Also included here are O’Malley’s reply, written Sept. 21, 1979, and Dunayevskaya’s further discussion, written Oct. 8, 1979. Subjects include the Hegel Society of America, and Marx scholarship by Maximilian Rubel and others.

  • 29. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written Sept. 9, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15195.pdf

    Asks McShane for research into greetings by English women sent to the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party Congress meeting in London in April-May, 1907.

  • F. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, September, 1979 – March 1981

  • 2. Olga Domanski letter to Michael Connolly, written Sept. 30, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15198.pdf

    Describes the first week of Dunayevskaya’s work on the book at a remote location in Canada; presents sequence of the work on a “Political-Philosophic Letter” on Leon Trotsky and on what became Chapter 1 of the book: “Before and After the 1905 Revolution: Two Turning Points in Rosa Luxemburg’s Life.” xcerpts only. (For Dunayevskaya’s letter on Trotsky, see #6037.)

  • 4. Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Wolff, written Oct. 8, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15201.pdf

    On Wolff’s translation (from German) of Luxemburg’s article entitled “Theory and Practice.” (For the full article as translated and published by News & Letters, see #6475.) Dunayevskaya wrote three letters to colleagues in News and Letters Committees on her work on the book in the month of Oct. 1979. (See #6440-6443).

  • 7. Dunayevskaya letter to Robert Belknap, written Oct. 25, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15204.pdf

    Accepts invitation from Russian Institute at Columbia University to lecture on the 1905 Russian Revolution; proposes possible titles for the talk.

  • 10. Dunayevskaya letter to Raha, written Nov. 3, 1979, on Raha’s return to the U.S. from participation in the Iranian Revolution.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15209.pdf

    Responds to Raha’s discussion of Marx’s 1844 Essays, and the relationship of philosophy to organization in the Iranian Revolution. During this period, Dunayevskaya decides to change the title of her book-to-be to Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution and writes two new letters on her work on the book to her colleagues in News and Letters Committees (#6444-6447). On Nov. 27, 1979 she completes a new “Political-Philosophic Letter” entitled “Grave Contradictions in the Iranian Revolution” (#6013).

  • 12. Dave Wolff letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 7, 1979.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15213.pdf

    Sends his translations of quotations from articles by Luxemburg on German imperialism’s 1904-07 war against the Herero people in what is now Namibia.

  • 13. Revolution and Counter-Revolution: The Life and Death of Rosa Luxemburg.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15216.pdf

    Lecture given Jan. 22, 1980 at Wayne State University (Detroit). Included here is a press release on the meeting issued by Wayne State University News & Letters Youth Committee, and an excerpt from the lecture which concerns Lenin’s critique of Luxemburg on “the National Question.” Dunayevskaya had just completed what she then considered Chapter 3 of the book; News & Letters had just published Chapter 1 (Jan.-Feb., 1980).

  • 14. Remarks by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given Feb. 3, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15219.pdf

    On the meaning of the proposed expansion of News & Letters to a 12-page newspaper, and its relationship to the work on the book.

  • 15. Dunayevskaya letter to Mikhail Vitkin, written Feb. 13, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15221.pdf

    On his article, “The Problem of the Universality of Social Relations in Classical Marxism.” Also included here is Vitkin’s letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 30, 1980. (In Russian.)

  • 17. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Colleagues,” written March 17, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15224.pdf

    Proposes a meeting on “Marx’s philosophy of revolution” to be held “on Marx’s birthday,” May 5. In this period Dunayevskaya wrote three other letters to her colleagues on the work on the book: on Marx’s work on the Neue Rheinische Zeitung; on Luxemburg and women’s liberation; on her study of “Marx’s and Luxemburg’s Theories of Accumulation” (#6450-6456).

  • 19. Dunayevskaya letter to Sheila Rowbotham, written March 27, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15226.pdf

    Sends Chapter 2 of the book, entitled “The Break with Kautsky, 1910-11.” Included here is a typed transcript of Dunayevskaya’s handwritten note. Chapter 2 was published in News & Letters (April, 1980). Also included is Rowbotham’s response, written June 3, 1980.

  • 20. Narihiko Ito (Kamakura, Japan) letter to Dunayevskaya, written April 23, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15229.pdf

    Comments on draft chapter of the book sent to him by Dunayevskaya. Also included here are Dunayevskaya’s responses, written May 5, 1980 and June 20, 1980.

  • 21. Dunayevskaya letter to Harry McShane, written June 17, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15232.pdf

    A discussion of the problem of organization in the Marxist movement, from Marx through Lenin to our day, with reference to Dunayevskaya’s 1953 Letters on Hegel’s Absolutes. This letter follows Dunayevskaya’s May 4, 1980 presentation on “A Birthtime of History,” a discussion of Marx’s philosophy of revolution, and her projection of the first outline of the book as a whole. For her letter reporting on both events, see #6457.

  • 22. Dunayevskaya letter to Raha, written Sept. 4, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15235.pdf

    An extended critique of John Molyneux’s Marxism and the Party (1978), written after Iranian Left activists translated Molyneux’s book into Farsi. Handnotes on the letter are later annotations by Dunayevskaya, probably made in 1986.

  • 23. Dunayevskaya letter to Jim Mills and Peter Wermuth, written Sept. 15, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15240.pdf

    Suggests that the Marxist-Humanist youth paper, From the Pen, print a quotation from Marx on the bureaucratization of education.

  • 25. Dunayevskaya letter to Sheila Rowbotham, written Sept. 27, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15243.pdf

    On Dunayevskaya’s reading of Rowbotham’s Beyond the Fragments. In the following week, Dunayevskaya completed a draft of what she then called Chapter 6 of the book, on “Women’s Liberation, Then and Now,” and drafted Chapter 5, on “War, Prison and Revolutions, 1914-1919.” Dunayevskaya’s letter on this work, written Oct. 6, 1980, is already included in the Collection (#6459).

  • 26. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, Michael Connolly, and Eugene Walker, written Oct. 7, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15245.pdf

    On Dunayevskaya’s new view of how to begin the “Marx chapter” with a section on attitudes to the dialectic–in Luxemburg, in Lenin.

  • 27. Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, Eugene Walker, and Michael Connolly, written Oct. 18, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15247.pdf

    On Dunayevskaya’s sudden decision to create a whole “Part II” on Marx. Gives a first outline of the Part, in three chapters. A further discussion of this decision is included in her Nov. 3, 1980 letter to “Dear Colleagues” (#6461).

  • 29. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin A. Barry, written Dec. 2, 1980.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15250.pdf

    Asks for translation and review of a paragraph from Marx’s Capital, added to the French edition in 1872, but not included in Engels’ later editions. Also included here is Barry’s response, after his study of Maximilian Rubel’s edition of Le Capital. Barry’s letter, written Dec. 12, 1980, discusses the publishing history of the French edition since its first appearance.

  • 30. Relationship of Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution to his Concept of Organization.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15253.pdf

    Report by Dunayevskaya to meeting of Expanded Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, Jan. 3, 1981. Dunayevskaya had just completed what she then called “Part II” of the book, including a “final chapter on ‘Philosopher of Permanent Revolution and Organization Man.’” For her discussion of this chapter, see her letter of Dec. 16, 1980 (#6463).

  • 31. Kevin A. Barry letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 8, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15258.pdf

    Proposes possible essay article topics for News & Letters. Included here also is Dunayevskaya’s response, written Jan. 16, 1981, with discussion of the French edition of Capital.

  • 32. Sheila Rowbotham letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 12, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15261.pdf

    Responds to Dunayevskaya’s present of the News and Letters Committees’ pamphlet, 25 Years of Marxist-Humanism, and reports on her participation in a “Beyond the Fragments” conference in Britain. Included here are both her handwritten letter and a typed transcript.

  • 33. Dunayevskaya letter to Richard Huett, written Jan. 19, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15264.pdf

    Sends “Part II” of the book, on Marx; discusses the difference between Philosophy and Revolution (with emphasis on the word “and”) and this study of “Marx’s philosophy of revolution.”

  • 34. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Sisters,” written Jan. 22, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15265.pdf

    On her recent correspondence with Rowbotham and her view of Russian feminist Tatyana Mamonova’s call for an “International Feminist Union.” Following this letter, Dunayevskaya decided to expand her draft chapter on “Women’s Liberation, then and Now,” into a new “Part II” of the book, which would now have three parts. (See her letter of Jan. 30, 1981, #6465.)

  • 36. The Book as a Whole.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15268.pdf

    Presentation by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given March 16, 1981. A review of all the changes in the draft chapters of the book created under the impact of seeing “the book as a whole.” The book now has three parts, and 11 chapters.

  • G. Correspondence, Presentations and Notes on the Writing of Rosa Luxemburg. Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, June, 1981 – September, 1983

  • 1. Peter Bergmann letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 11, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15272.pdf

    A response to Dunayevskaya’s “Theory/Practice” column, printed in News & Letters (June, 1981), entitled “A 1981 View of Marx’s 1841 Dialectic” (#7476) .

  • 2. Dunayevskaya letter to Lawrence Stepelevich, written July 5, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15278.pdf

    Sends Stepelevich, as editor of Owl of Minerva, the journal of the Hegel Society of America, the contents page of her book, stressing her study of Marx’s 1841 doctoral thesis, and asking his view. Dunayevskaya had just been offered a contract for publication of the book by Humanities Press.

  • 3. A Note on the Dialectic in Organizational Relations, or Leadership as Both Philosophy and Spontaneous Action.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15279.pdf

    Presentation given by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, July 31, 1981 (excerpts). Dunayevskaya announces her decision to create a new Chapter 12 of the book, even though the mss. had already been submitted to the publisher. Also included here is a copy of the minutes of the talk with handnotes added later by Dunayevskaya.

  • 5. Summation of Raya Dunayevskaya Following Discussion of Perspectives.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15285.pdf

    Presentation given at the News and Letters Committees Plenum, Sept. 5, 1981. Dunayevskaya projects two new categories from her work on Chapter 12 of the book: “Post-Marx Marxism as a pejorative,” and “Organizational responsibility for Marxist-Humanism.”

  • 6. Kevin A. Barry letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 20, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15294.pdf

    Responds to Dunayevskaya’s request for information on Rubel’s editing of Vols. II and III of Marx’s Capital. Included here are Dunayevskaya’s replies to Barry, written Sept. 28 and Oct. 8, 1981, which further discuss Rubel’s work, and that of Terell Carver. Barry’s note of Oct. 15, 1981 contains marginalia by Dunayevskaya on the “dialectics of fetishism.” Part of this note is missing.

  • 8. Dunayevskaya letter to Ana Maria Portugal (Lima, Peru), written Oct. 12, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15305.pdf

    Asks for discussion of the relationship between women’s liberation and Rosa Luxemburg, and for assistance with finding a Latin American publisher for the book.

  • 9. Presentation by Dunayevskaya on new additions to the book, given Nov. 4, 1981 to Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15306.pdf

    On Dunayevskaya’s addition of a new, fourth section to Chapter 12, entitled “A 1980s View,” and other additions made after preliminary work on the Index to the book.

  • 11. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Colleagues,” written Nov. 25, 1981.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15309.pdf

    Reports another addition to the book, expanding a footnote in Chapter 3 into a discussion of a disagreement with Roman Rosdolsky and the writing of her 1953 Letters on Hegel’s Absolutes. During the same week, Dunayevskaya wrote another discussion of Hegel’s Absolutes, “On the 150th anniversary since Hegel’s death” (#7481).

  • 12. Presentation by Dunayevskaya on the book, given Dec. 14, 1981 to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15313.pdf

    Dunayevskaya focuses only on “what is new,” rather than an “overview of the whole book.”

  • 13. Leadership and Responsibilities for Jan. 2, 1982 Expanded REB Perspectives.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15318.pdf

    Notes by Dunayevskaya for her presentation to an Expanded Resident Editorial Board meeting of News and Letters Committees, probably written in the last week of December, 1981. On “Post-Marx Marxism as a category.”

  • 14. Under the Whip of the Counter-Revolution: Momentous World-Historic Events Struggle to Find Revolutionary Philosophic Expression.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15326.pdf

    Presentation by Dunayevskaya to the Expanded Resident Editorial Board meeting, Jan. 2, 1982.

  • 15. Politicalization and Proofreading. Report by Olga Domanski to Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given Feb. 8, 1982.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15332.pdf

    On the theft of the galley proofs and final mss. of the book; on changes in the mss. added by Dunayevskaya during proofreading of the galleys.

  • 17. For the Record. Statement by Dunayevskaya, written April 18, 1982, on Olga Domanski’s presentation of the galley proofs of the book, as she re-created them in book-form.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15336.pdf

    A discussion of the relation of footnote references to the body of the text.

  • 20. Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman and John Spiers, written May 27, 1982.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15340.pdf

    Sends suggested material for the jacket cover of the book. Dunayevskaya was asked to summarize the book in three paragraphs, and did so, writing one on each of the three parts.

  • 21. Convention Call for 1982 Convention of News and Letters Committees, written June 1, 1982.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15343.pdf

    Principal author was Dunayevskaya. Includes a discussion of the “Difference between the 1980 Draft and the 1982 completed work.”

  • 22. Dunayevskaya letter to Women’s Liberation-News and Letters Committees, written Aug. 20, 1982.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15350.pdf

    Even though the book is now set in type and cannot be altered, Dunayevskaya begins proposing “additions” to it. Two additions are offered here to the final page of Chapter 8, on “The Task That Remains to be Done: The Unique and Unfinished Contributions of Today’s Women’s Liberation Movement.” Marginalia on the letter were added later by Dunayevskaya.

  • 23. New paragraphs added to the last page of Chapter 12 of the book.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15353.pdf

    Written by Dunayevskaya as the conclusion of her Perspectives Report to the 1982 Convention of News and Letters Committees; presented Sept. 4, 1982. On the “further challenge to the form of organization which we have worked out as the committee-form rather than the ‘party-to-lead.’” A shorter version of this new addition to the book was offered in Dunayevskaya’s “Political-Philosophic Letter” of Oct. 15, 1982, “On the Battle of Ideas” (#7486).

  • 24. Dunayevskaya letter to Sheila Rowbotham, written Nov. 4, 1982.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15354.pdf

    Dunayevskaya sends Rowbotham a copy of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution on the day of its publication. Asks for “the initiation of a battle of ideas” on her book in England.

  • 26. Dunayevskaya letter addressed only as “Hello,” written Jan. 13, 1983.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15356.pdf

    Proposes a new passage added to Chapter 3 of the book, in the discussion of Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital, on “the Great Divide between Phenomenology and Philosophy.”

  • 28. New paragraph added to the last chapter of the book. Written by Dunayevskaya for inclusion in her speech on “Marx and the Black World,” given at the Center for African and Afro-American Studies, University of Michigan, March 30, 1983.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15367.pdf

    During this period, Dunayevskaya embarked on a two-month long national “Marx Centenary Tour” with the new book. For a discussion of that tour, see #7667- 7670. Included here also are “Notes on the Black Dimension and RLWLKM” written during the tour.

  • 29. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Comrades,” written Aug. 26, 1983.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15370.pdf

    On the eve of the News and Letters Committees Constitutional Convention, which was to take up Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, Dunayevskaya restates and discusses all the passages added to the book since it was set in type and could no longer be changed. These include a new paragraph added to the Introduction on “post-Marx Marxists, beginning with Frederick Engels.”

  • 30. Carrying Out Constitutional Convention Decisions.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/15375.pdf

    Presentation by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given Sept. 16, 1983. Dunayevskaya proposes to add a passage to Chapter 12 of the book, on the differences between Marx and Engels on the Asiatic mode of production, and on the development of society as a whole. A further expansion of this passage, added about one week later, is also included. Marginalia on that document are by Dunayevskaya.

  • Volume 14 concludes on page #15377.