Marx's Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day

396 Pages·2018·6.426 MB·English

by  Raya Dunayevskaya

Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day
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Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution
in Permanence for Our Day
Selected writings
By
Raya Dunayevskaya
Edited by
Franklin Dmitryev
leiden | boston
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Contents
Editorial Note and Acknowledgements  ix
Introduction: Raya Dunayevskaya’s Renewal of Karl Marx’s Philosophy
of Revolution in Permanence  1
Franklin Dmitryev, National Organizer, News and Letters Committees,
for the Raya Dunayevskaya Memorial Fund
Part 1
The Philosophic Moment of Marx: Marx’s Transformation
of the Hegelian Dialectic
1 Preface to the Iranian Edition of Marx’s Humanist Essays  27
2 The Theory of Alienation: Marx’s Debt to Hegel  31
3 The Todayness of Marx’s Humanism  37
4 A 1981 View of Marx’s 1841 Dialectic  49
Part 2
The Inseparability of Marx’s Economics, Humanism,
and Dialectic
5 Capitalist Development and Marx’s Capital, 1863–1883  55
6 Today’s Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx’s Capital  64
7 Letter to Herbert Marcuse on Automation  83
8 Marx’s Grundrisse and the Dialectic in Life and in Thought  91
9 Capitalist Production/Alienated Labor  100
10 Marx’s Critique of Culture  105
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vi Contents
Part 3
Post-Marx Marxism and the Battle of Ideas
11 Post-Marx Marxism as a Category  115
12 Hobsbawm and Rubel on the Marx Centenary,
but Where is Marx?  118
13 Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution vs. Non-Marxist
Scholar-Careerists in “Marxism”  125
14 Paul Mattick: Economism vs. Marx’s Humanism  132
15 Bertell Ollman: Pitting “Human Nature” against
Marx’s Humanism  138
16 The Dialectic of Labor in Marx and “Critical Thought”  142
17 Gramsci’s “Philosophy of Praxis”  150
18 Rosdolsky’s Methodology and Lange’s Revisionism  155
19 Adorno, Kosík, and the Movement from Practice  162
Part 4
Marx as Philosopher of Revolution in Permanence—Reading
Marx for Today
Section A
Marxist-Humanism
20 Introduction to Philosophic Notes  171
21 The Emergence of a New Movement from Practice that is Itself a
Form of Theory  174
22 New Stage of Production, New Stage of Cognition,
New Kind of Organization  189
23 The Dialectic of Absolute Idea as New Beginning  198
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Contents vii
Section B
Black Liberation and Internationalism
24 Abolitionism and the American Roots of Marxism  205
25 Marx and the Two-Way Road between the U.S. and Africa  218
26 Black Intellectuals in Dilemma  228
Section C
Women’s Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution
27 Marx’s “New Humanism” and the Dialectics of Women’s Liberation
in “Primitive” and Modern Societies  241
28 Marx’s and Engels’ Studies Contrasted: Relationship of Philosophy
and Revolution to Women’s Liberation  257
29 Letter to Adrienne Rich on Women’s Liberation, Gay Liberation,
and the Dialectic  277
Section D
Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy
30 Spontaneity, Organization, Philosophy (Dialectics)  287
31 Philosopher of Permanent Revolution and Organization Man  300
32 A Post-World War ii View of Marx’s Humanism, 1843–1883; Marxist
Humanism, 1950s–1980s  313
Appendix: Raya Dunayevskaya’s Translations from Marx’s Economic-
Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844  329
1 Tanslator’s Note  329
2 Private Property and Communism  330
3 Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic  340
Bibliography  357
Index  370
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Editorial Note and Acknowledgements
Editorial Note
All footnotes outside the introduction, besides simple citations, are by Du-
nayevskaya unless otherwise noted. Within the text of some documents the
following abbreviations are used for works by Marx and Dunayevskaya:
MCIK = Capital, Vol. I, Kerr edition
MCIIK = Capital, Vol. II, Kerr edition
MCIIIK = Capital, Vol. III, Kerr edition
MCIP = Capital, Vol. I, Penguin edition
MCIIP = Capital, Vol. II, Penguin edition
MCIIIP = Capital, Vol. III, Penguin edition
MECW x, p. y = Marx and Engels, Collected Works, Vol. x, p. y
RDC, p. x = The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection and Supplement to the Raya
Dunayevskaya Collection, microfilm page number x.
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank the Raya Dunayevskaya Memorial Fund for giving permis-
sion to publish documents from the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection—Marxist-
Humanism: A Half Century of Its World Development and its Supplement, the
most complete collection of Dunayevskaya’s writings. The entire Collection
(except for audiotapes, videotapes, and books with marginalia), the Supple-
ment, and Guides to the Collection and Supplement are on the Internet at
www.rayadunayevskaya.org. Originals are on deposit at Wayne State University
Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Detroit, Michigan.
We thank Eugene Gogol, Terry Moon, Bob McGuire, Fred Mecklenburg, Olga
Domanski, Nigel Gibson, Mary Jo Grey, Malcolm Campbell, Ron Kelch, Susan
van Gelder Stellar, Daniel Bremer, and Russell Rockwell for editorial assistance
and comments on drafts. Kevin O’Brien digitized Dunayevskaya’s translations
of “Private Property and Communism” and “Critique of the Hegelian Dialec-
tic” from Marx’s Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 as published in the
first edition of Marxism and Freedom. Chris Clayton and Damon Maxwell tran-
scribed for the Marxists Internet Archive Chapter 3, originally titled “Marx’s
Humanism Today,” and Chapter 26, originally titled “Negro Intellectuals in
Dilemma,” respectively.
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