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In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya,
with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains
the essential features of Marx's analysis of history. Using as her
point of departure the Industrial and French Revolutions, the
European upheavals of 1848, the American Civil War, and the Paris
Commune of 1871, Dunayevskaya shows how Marx, inspired by these
events, adapted Hegel's philosophy to analyze the course of history
as a dialectical process that moves "from practice to theory." The
essence of Marx's philosophy, as Dunayevskaya points out, is the
human struggle for freedom, which entails the gradual emergence of
a proletarian revolutionary consciousness and the discovery through
conflict of the means for realizing complete human freedom.
But freedom for Marx meant freedom not only from capitalist
economic exploitation but also from all political restraints.
Continuing her historical analysis, Dunayevskaya reveals how
completely Marx's original conception of freedom was perverted
through its adaptations by Stalin in Russia and Mao in China, and
the subsequent erection of totalitarian states. The exploitation of
the masses persisted under these regimes in the form of a new
"state capitalism."
Yet despite the profound derailment of Marxist political philosophy
in the twentieth century, Dunayevskaya points to developments such
as the Hungarian revolt of 1956, and the Civil Rights struggles in
the United States as signs that the indomitable quest for freedom
on the part of the downtrodden cannot be forever repressed. The
Hegelian dialectic of events propelled by the spirit of the masses
thus moves on inexorably with the hope for the future achievement
of political, economic, and social freedom and equality for all.
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.
Marx's Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day, a
selection of writings by the Marxist-Humanist philosopher and
revolutionary Raya Dunayevskaya, brings out the contemporary
urgency of Marx's work as a philosophy of revolution in permanence.
This volume argues that dialectics permeates the totality of Marx's
body of ideas and activities. Major themes include Marx's
transformation of the Hegelian dialectic; the inseparability of
Marx's economics, humanism, and dialectic; the battle of ideas with
post-Marx Marxism, beginning with Engels; Black liberation,
internationalism, and women's liberation; today's burning question
of the relationship between spontaneity, organization, and
philosophy; the emergence of counter-revolution from within the
revolution; and the problem of what happens after the revolution.
 In this important and wide-ranging critique of Rosa
Luxemburg (1871-1919) Raya Dunayevskaya examines the life,
political thought, and action of one of the most critical
revolutionary figures of our time. Dunayevskaya sheds new light on
the questions of socialist democracy after the revolution,
disclosing both the unprobed feminist dimension of Rosa Luxemburg
and the previously unrecognized new moments in Marx's last decade
concerning the role of women and the peasantry. As the founder of
Marxist-Humanism in the United States, Dunayevskaya (1910-87) was
an internationally respected writer, philosopher, and
revolutionary. This new and expanded edition includes two
previously unpublished articles by Dunayevskaya, including her
"Challenge to all Post-Marx Marxists." Â
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