Volume 15 – Section 4

  • Section IV. Dialogues and the Battle of Ideas

  • A. International projections of Marxist-Humanism

  • 1. Iranian Marxist-Humanists and the Middle East

  • b. Dunayevskaya letter to Neda Azad, written Jan. 20, 1983.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16833.pdf

    On Marxism and Feminism, edited by Lydia Sargeant. Included also is Azad to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 18, 1983, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.

  • d. Dunayevskaya to Raha, written May 10, 1983.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16838.pdf

    On Raha’s draft introduction to the Iranian edition of Nationalism. Communism, Marxist-Humanism and the Afro-Asian Revolutions, published in “Pre-Convention Bulletin No. One,” July 1983. Included also is draft of introduction in English, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. For introduction as published in News & Letters, August–September 1983, see 7682. For complete Farsi pamphlet, see 7684.

  • e. Dunayevskaya letter to Neda Azad, written June 9, 1983.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16846.pdf

    On Lenin’s theory of national self-determination. Included also is Azad letter to Dunayevskaya, written June 1, 1983, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.

  • f. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Raha on first Farsi edition of Marx’s 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16856.pdf

    Included are exchanges of letters in 1983 and 1985. Included also is Raha’s preface, written May 1, 1985, and published as “Why The Publication of Marx’s Humanist Essays Now?” in “The San Francisco Bay Area Pre-Plenum Discussion Bulletin, 1985.” For Dunayevskaya’s “Special Introduction” in English, see 6034 and 15175; in Farsi, see 6198. For introduction and preface as published with essays, see 10476. For Dunayevskaya letter to Raha, written Nov. 3, 1979, on philosophy and organization in Marx’s early writings, see 15209.

  • g. Dunayevskaya letter to Azadkar, written Jan. 7, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16863.pdf

    On presenting Dunayevskaya’s Political-Philosophic Letter on Grenada to an Iranian audience, with addendum by Olga Domanski. Included also is Azadkar letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 31, 1983, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.

  • h. Dunayevskaya letter to Neda Azad, written Jan. 19, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16867.pdf

    On Azad’s draft statement for “Anjomane Azadi Zan (Women’s Liberation Committee)” and the “decentralized committee-form” of organization. Included also are fragment of Azad cover letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 11, 1984, and draft statement with marginalia by Dunayevskaya, and revised statement.

  • j. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Roy.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16878.pdf

    Includes letters written between July 15, 1984 and Dec. 30, 1985, four from Dunayevskaya and three from Roy, with marginalia on three letters, and marginalia on one page of Roy letter to Lou Turner. On Dunayevskaya’s critical relationship to Marcuse and the Iranian Revolution; Lenin and national self-determination; Hegel’s Absolutes and Marxist-Humanism; Roy’s article, “The human being and organization.” Dunayevskaya’s Sept. 11, 1985 letter also discusses her next book on “the Dialectic of ‘the Party’.”

  • k. Dunayevskaya letter to Neda Azad, written Oct. 7, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16892.pdf

    On using Hegel’s methodology of “points of division” to study Ahmad Sultan-Zadeh. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Azad, written August 1984; Azad cover letter to Dunayevskaya, written Aug. 23, 1984, and prospectus for a study of “The Writings of Ahmad Sultan-Zadeh,” both with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.

  • m. Dunayevskaya letter to Hanna Batatu, written Jan. 18, 1986.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16908.pdf

    On Third World revolutions and Lebanon, typed copy of handwritten note with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. Included also is Batatu letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 6, 1985, on his forthcoming book about Syria.

  • 2. “Encyclopedia of Contemporary Socialism,” a Yugoslav project “

  • a. Dunayevskaya letter to Mihalo Markovic, written Nov. 4, 1983.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16910.pdf

    On affinity “that not only disregards national borders but for whom truly the world is ‘my country.’” Included also are Markovic letter to Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 28, 1983; Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman, written Jan. 3, 1984.

  • b. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Zoran Vidakovic.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16913.pdf

    Exchange of three letters from Dunayevskaya and three from Vidakovic, written between December 1983 and Sept. 10, 1986, on her own and others’ participation in the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Socialism. Included are “Commentary on Draft Project for the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Socialism” by Dunayevskaya; marginalia by Dunayevskaya on form letter and accompanying “Draft Project”; marginalia on Vidakovic letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 10, 1986. For Dunayevskaya’s contribution, completed May 1, 1987 as “A Post-World War II View of Marx’s Humanism, 1843-83; Marxist Humanism, 1950s-1980s,” see 11588.

  • c. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Zagorka Golubovic.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16937.pdf

    Exchange of two letters from Dunayevskaya and two from Golubovic, written between April 18, 1984 and June 5, 1985, on the need to reformulate Marx for today and take the measure of post-Marx Marxists. Dunayevskaya letter to Golubovic, written March 5, 1984, is missing.

  • 3. Erich Fromm Society

  • “Erich Fromm, Socialist Humanist.”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16942.pdf

    Typed copy of essay by Dunayevskaya for “The Unknown Fromm,” edited by Lutz von Werder. Included also are Dunayevskaya cover letter, written April 17, 1984; von Werder letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 21, 1984, in German; translation of von Werder letter with marginalia by Dunayevskaya; German translation of Dunayevskaya’s essay, published as “Erich Fromm als sozialistischer Humanist” in Der unbekannte Fromm: Biographische Studien, L. von Werder, ed. (Frankfurt: Haag and Herchen, 1987); Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman, written Aug. 9, 1984. For the English translation of Fromm’s unpublished Preface to the German edition of Philosophy and Revolution, see 10051.

  • 4. Antonio Gramsci-Rosa Luxemburg conference

  • Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Ulrich Schreiber and Bernd Röttger, organizers of the Antonio Gramsci-Rosa Luxemburg conference in Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 3-5, 1985.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16956.pdf

    Between September 1983 and June 7, 1985, there are seven handwritten, typed, and form letters from Schreiber and Röttger in English, German, and Russian, four letters from Dunayevskaya, and one letter on behalf of Dunayevskaya by Olga Domanski. The exchange discusses participation in and preparations for the conference and a related collection of papers, and German translations of Dunayevskaya’s works.

  • B. “Marx’s Unknown Mathematical Manuscripts and the Fetish of High Tech”

  • 2. Dunayevskaya letter to Franklin Dmitryev, written Oct. 5, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16976.pdf

    On the need to “battle against Stalinism… even in such rarefied fields as mathematics.” Included also is Dmitryev letter to Ron Brokmeyer, written Aug. 27, 1984, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. See also 16451.

  • 4. Dunayevskaya letter to Ted Rosmer, written Nov. 2, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16987.pdf

    On Stalinist reduction of “Marx’s praxis and self-activity as well as methodology.” For Rosmer letter to Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 29, 1984, see 8333.

  • 7. Marginalia by Dunayevskaya on documents related to the News and Letters Committees discussion on Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16990.pdf

    Included are “The Fetish of High Tech, Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts, and Marxist-Humanism’s Great Divide,” pre-convention discussion bulletin by Ron Brokmeyer, June 1984; Brokmeyer letter to Dunayevskaya, written Oct. 11, 1985; Dmitryev letter to Brokmeyer, written Oct. 16, 1984; Brokmeyer letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 3, 1984; “The Fetish of High Tech and Karl Marx’s Unknown Mathematical Manuscripts,” a News and Letters discussion bulletin, November 1984, with only pages containing marginalia by Dunayevskaya. For complete bulletin, see 8306.

  • C. Commentaries and reviews

  • 1 Commentary on Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by Michael Haynes

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17047.pdf

    “Reader Raya Dunayevskaya’s Commentary on Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by Michael Haynes.” Critique of manuscript. Included also are Dunayevskaya cover letter to Simon Silverman, written Dec. 18, 1983, on analysts of the degeneration of the Russian Revolution; draft of commentary, with revisions dictated by Dunayevskaya; Silverman letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 15, 1983; Dunayevskaya letter to Silverman, written Nov. 17, 1983.

  • 2. Review of The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx by David MacGregor for Insurgent Sociologist

  • b. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Chris Huxley.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17058.pdf

    Three letters from Dunayevskaya and five from Huxley, written between Feb. 12 and Nov. 25, 1985, on reviewing The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx for Insurgent Sociologist, Dunayevskaya’s current work in “projection of Marxist-Humanism,” and her next work on “The Dialectic of the Party,” with marginalia by Dunayevskaya on two Huxley letters and marginalia not by Dunayevskaya on her own Feb. 23 letter.

  • c. “Review of The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx by David MacGregor.”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17068.pdf

    Written April 12, 1985. Included also are Dunayevskaya cover letter to Huxley, written April 12, 1985; draft of review; review as published in Owl of Minerva with MacGregor reply, Spring 1988. For review as published in News & Letters, December 1985, see 10421.

  • D. Feminist thinkers

  • 1. Correspondence

  • a. Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Vivian Gornick.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17082.pdf

    Included are letters and notes written between Jan. 7 and Dec. 14, 1983. Dunayevskaya’s May 30, 1983 letter is typed copy of handwritten note, and Sept. 13, 1983 note was not delivered. On Gornick’s view of Margaret Fuller and on Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution.

  • 2. Reviews and articles

  • a. Frigga Haug, “Soziale Bewegungen and Politik. Frauen-Politik.” Das Argument-Beiheft ’83 (Berlin).

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17096.pdf

    Review of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, in German. Included also is English translation by Randall B. Clark.

  • f. Michelle Landau, “Review Essay: Woman as Revolutionary Reason.” Women’s Studies International Forum (Oxford), Vol. 7, No. 5, 1984 (special issue featuring Hypatia).

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17107.pdf

    Review of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution.

  • g. Gabrielle Dietrich, Das Argument-Beiheft ’85 (Berlin). Review of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution,

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17113.pdf

    in German and with English translation by Eric Nelson. For Dunayevskaya’s discussion of Dietrich’s review in Marxist Review, see 17223.

  • E. Non-Marxist Hegel scholars

  • 1. George Armstrong Kelly

  • Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and George Armstrong Kelly. Included are three letters from Dunayevskaya and seven from Kelly written between Jan. 6, 1983 and December 1984, and notes.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17122.pdf

    Dunayevskaya discusses Hegel’s “attack on Catholicism as the attack on the elitist monolithic party” and Rosa Luxemburg; Kelly’s analysis of the final paragraph of Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind; critiques of and relations with Anna Louise Strong and Tracy B. Strong. Marginalia on letters from Kelly written Feb. 2 and April 12, 1984 are by Dunayevskaya; December 1984 card contains marginalia not by Dunayevskaya and is signed also by Joanne Kelly. Second copy of Jan. 24, 1984 letter from Dunayevskaya includes corrections dictated by her. Dunayevskaya letters to Kelly written May 3, 1983, November 1983, and May 1, 1984 are missing. For Kelly’s review of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, see 10171.

  • 2. Louis Dupré

  • Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Louis Dupré.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17137.pdf

    Included are one letter from Dunayevskaya and four from Dupré written between April 20, 1984 and December 1985, two with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. On Dunayevskaya’s review of Dupré’s Marx’s Social Critique of Culture and Dupré’s review of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution. Dunayevskaya’s letter, written Dec. 13, 1984, is typed copy. Dunayevskaya letter to Dupré, written April 28, 1984, is missing. For Dunayevskaya’s review, see 8267. For Dupré’s review, see 11310.

  • 3. Warren and Barbara Steinkraus

  • Correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Warren and Barbara Steinkraus.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/17143.pdf

    Included are one letter from Dunayevskaya and two from Warren and Barbara Steinkraus, written between Sept. 9, 1985 and Oct. 20, 1985, on review of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution by Bat-Ami Bar On. For review, see 10197.