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Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist,
philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin,
White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in
the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and
post-Marxism. His legacy remains with us today, having inspired
movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, the US and South Africa. This is
a critical biography of his extraordinary life. Peter Hudis draws
on the expanse of his life and work - from his upbringing in
Martinique and early intellectual influences to his mature efforts
to fuse psychoanalysis and philosophy and contributions to the
anti-colonial struggle in Algeria - to counter the monolithic
assumption that Fanon's contribution to modern thought is defined
by the advocacy of violence. He was a political activist who
brought his interests in psychology and philosophy directly to bear
on such issues as mutual recognition, democratic participation and
political sovereignty. Hudis shows that, as a result, Fanon emerges
as neither armchair intellectual nor intransigent militant.
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist,
philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin,
White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in
the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and
post-Marxism. His legacy remains with us today, having inspired
movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, the US and South Africa. This is
a critical biography of his extraordinary life. Peter Hudis draws
on the expanse of his life and work - from his upbringing in
Martinique and early intellectual influences to his mature efforts
to fuse psychoanalysis and philosophy and contributions to the
anti-colonial struggle in Algeria - to counter the monolithic
assumption that Fanon's contribution to modern thought is defined
by the advocacy of violence. He was a political activist who
brought his interests in psychology and philosophy directly to bear
on such issues as mutual recognition, democratic participation and
political sovereignty. Hudis shows that, as a result, Fanon emerges
as neither armchair intellectual nor intransigent militant.
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted
to a critique of capitalism - and that he consciously avoided any
detailed conception of its alternative - this work shows that Marx
was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society
which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever
published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to
leading figures in the European and international labor and
socialist movements-Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and
Karl Liebknecht-who were among her closest friends, lovers and
colleagues. Many of these letters appear for the first time in
English translation; all help to illuminate the inner life of this
iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social
theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political
concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a
socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded
women. This collection will provide readers with a newer and deeper
appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historical figure.
This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works
devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg's life and
work-revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they
contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes, protests,
and political debates that culminated in the 1905 Russian
Revolution-one of the most important social upheavals of modern
times. Luxemburg's near-daily articles and reports during 1905 on
the ongoing revolution (which comprises the bulk of this volume)
shed new light on such issues as the relation of spontaneity and
organization, the role of national minorities in social revolution,
and the inseparability of the struggle for socialism from
revolutionary democracy. We become witness to Luxemburg's effort to
respond to the impulses, challenges, and ideas arising from a
living revolutionary process, which in turn becomes the source of
much of her subsequent political theory-such as her writings on the
mass strike, her strident internationalism, and her insistence that
revolutionary struggle never take its eyes off of the need to
transform the human personality. Virtually all of these writings
appear in English for the first time (translated from both German
and Polish) and many have only recently been identified as having
been written by Luxemburg.
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's "Complete Works, " entitled
"Economic Writings 1," contains some of Luxemburg's most important
statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor,
imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
In addition to a new translation of her doctoral dissertation, "The
Industrial Development of Poland," Volume I includes the first
complete English-language publication of her "Introduction to
Political Economy," which explores (among other issues) the impact
of capitalist commodity production and industrialization on
noncapitalist social strata in the developing world. Also appearing
here are ten recently discovered manuscripts, none of which has
ever before been published in English.
This first volume of Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled
Economic Writings I, will contain some of Luxemburg's most
important writings on the globalization of capital, wage labor,
imperialism and pre-capitalist economic formations, most of which
have never before appeared in English. In addition to including a
new translation of her doctoral dissertation, The Industrial
Development of Poland, it will include the first complete English
translation of her Introduction to Political Economy, which
explores (among other issues) the impact of capitalist commodity
production and industrialization upon non-capitalist social strata
in the developing world. The volume will also include ten recently
discovered manuscripts, all of which will appear in English for the
first time.
Raya Dunayevskaya is hailed as the founder of Marxist-Humanism in
the United States. In this new collection of her essays co-editors
Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson have crafted a work in which the
true power and originality of Dunayevskaya's ideas are displayed.
This extensive collection of writings on Hegel, Marx, and
dialectics captures Dunayevskaya's central dictum that, contrary to
the established views of Hegelians and Marxists, Hegel was of
signal importance to the theory and practice of Marxism. The Power
of Negativity sheds light not only on Marxist-Humanism and the
rooting of Dunayevskaya's Marxist-Humanist theories in Hegel, but
also on the life of one of America's most penetrating and
provocative critical thinkers.
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