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Fanon and Marx
From the March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: Fanon and Marx When Terry Moon in her column in the last issue asks, “How deep does the dialectic need to become when the subject is woman, is Black woman?” she … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimé Césaire, Black dimension, Black women, cultural nationalism, dialectic, Existentialism, Fanon, feminism, Frantz Fanon, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Marx, L Boogie, labor, Marx, Master/Slave dialectic, Negritude, objectification, racism, Sartre, sexism, sexual harassment, subject of revolution, Subject/Object dialectic, subjectivity, vanguardism, women's liberation
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István Mészáros and the Dialectic
From the new March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: Essay István Mészáros and the Dialectic by Eugene Walker István Mészáros, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness. Volume I, The Social Determination of Method. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010. Global depression … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Idea, absolute negativity, Absolute Negativity as New Beginning, alienation, Critique of Hegelian Dialectic, dialectic, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel, István Mészáros, Karl Marx, Marx, Mészáros, negation, Occupy Wall Street, Raya Dunayevskaya, Science of Logic
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March-April 2012 News & Letters is online
The March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters is now online. News & Letters, Vol. 57, No. 2 March-April 2012 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead Syrian revolution fights Assad’s genocide, world powers watch … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Andy Stern, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, birth control, China, Contraception, dialectic, fascism, feminism, Greece, István Mészáros, labor, Marx, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, patriarchy, philosophy of revolution, Reproductive rights, Service Employees International Union, sexism, Syria, Syrian revolution, Tahrir Squares, women's liberation, workers
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Absolute Negativity, Occupy and Situationists
From the new January-February issue of News & Letters: Essay Absolute Negativity, Occupy and Situationists by Ron Kelch [Absolute negativity] is the simple point of the negative relation to self, the innermost source of all activity, of all animate and spiritual self-movement, the dialectical … Continue reading
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January-February 2012 issue of News & Letters now available on the web
New issue is available on the web. News & Letters, Vol. 57, No. 1 January-February 2012 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead Widening labor and peasant revolts threaten Chinese rulers Protests began in September … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010 Haiti earthquake, Abigail Borah, absolute negativity, Africa, Anders Behring Breivik, Angye Gaona, Arab spring, Asia, Black Skin White Masks, Brother to Brother, China, climate change, dialectic, Durban, economic crisis, Frantz Fanon, global warming, Gordon Hirabayashi, Guy Debord, Japanese internment, Ken Knabb, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-Un, L Boogie, labor, Martina Noel Davis-Correia, National Defense Authorization Act, NATO/G8, News and Letters Committees, North Korea, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, Pariah, peasant revolt, Post Office, Postal Service, postal workers, revolution, sexual harassment, Situationist International, Syria, teachers, women's liberation, workers, Wukan
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Subjects of revolution: theory/practice
From the new issue of NEWS & LETTERS, May-June 2011: From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Letter to the youth Subjects of revolution: theory/practice Editor’s Note: Excerpted from Jan. 15, 1971, letter to Will Stein and other young revolutionaries in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1871 Paris Commune, dialectic, G.W.F. Hegel, Iranian Revolution, Karl Marx, Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today, Marxist-Humanism, News and Letters Committees, Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao, philosophy of revolution, Raya Dunayevskaya, Russian Revolution, subject of revolution, subjectivity, Women in Iran
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Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and Solidarity
A guest post from Terry Moon–her presentation at the 2011 Left Forum: Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and Solidarity Terry Moon, Chicago Talk for the Left Forum, NY, March 19, 2011 I. Where is Solidarity on Women’s Struggle for Reproductive Justice? There is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Counter-revolutionary, dialectic, Dunayevskaya, Egypt, feminism, G.W.F. Hegel, gender, global gag rule, International Women's Day, Iranian Revolution, Jumanah Younis, Karl Marx, Khomeini, Left Forum, Marxism, Marxist-Humanism, Middle East, News and Letters Committees, Raya Dunayevskaya, Reproductive Justice, revolution in permanence, solidarity, Tahrir Square, Women in Iran, women's liberation
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Women’s freedom and Marx’s dialectic
From the March-April 2011 issue of News & Letters: Essay Woman as Reason Women’s freedom and Marx’s dialectic by Terry Moon The contemporary nature of Marxist-Humanism is evident when one views the theory and practice of women’s liberation. Today that … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, dialectic, Dunayevskaya, Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx, feminism, Feminist movement, Frederick Engels, Fredric Jameson, Friedrich Engels, gender, Iranian Revolution, Karl Marx, Lewis Henry Morgan, Marxism, Middle East, Nancy Hartsock, Paycheck Fairness Act, philosophy, Raya Dunayevskaya, Rosa Luxemburg Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, Socialism, theory, women's liberation, Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution, working day
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Philosophy and Iran’s revolution: Where to now?
From the new issue of News & Letters: Essay Philosophy and Iran’s revolution: Where to now? by Raha Recollecting Raya at the end of the Dunayevskaya Centenary is intertwined with the Iranian Revolution at its 1979 high point and as … Continue reading
Marxism and the U.S. Civil War
From the new issue of News & Letters: From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Marxism and the U.S. Civil War Editor’s note: 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the U.S. Civil War. The piece excerpted here, originally … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civil War, capitalism, dialectic, Dunayevskaya, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Industrial Revolution, Karl Marx, labor, Marxism, Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today, method, News and Letters Committees, Paris Commune, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution, structure of Capital, United States
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