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After the election: How do we oppose Trump’s fascism and move forward?
A Dec. 7, 2016, presentation by Franklin Dmitryev on “After the election: How do we oppose Trump’s fascism and move forward?” Continue reading
Reading Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program
[I am posting this piece I wrote in 2006 because I believe it sheds light on current debates on interpreting Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program and broader debates about Marxist-Humanism. It was originally published in Pre-Convention Discussion Bulletin #2, August 2006, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Kliman, Critique of the Gotha Program, Karl Marx, Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today, Mitch Weerth, Peter Hudis, philosophy of revolution, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution in permanence, Rosa Luxemburg Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
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From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: 1953 letters on Hegel’s Absolutes
Raya Dunayevskaya’s May 12, 1953, letter—presented in two parts, here and in the next issue—is one of the historic-philosophic writings included in The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism. Continue reading
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Tagged 1953 Letters on Hegel's Absolutes, Absolute Idea, absolute method, Absolute Mind, absolute negativity, Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy, G.W.F. Hegel, Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Hegelian dialectic, Lenin's abstract of Hegel's Science of Logic, Marxist-Humanism, Philosophy of Mind, philosophy of revolution, Raya Dunayevskaya, Science of Logic, The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism
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May-June 2014 News & Letters online
May-June 2014 News & Letters online: “From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy”; “Unchaining the revolutionary dialectic”; much more… Continue reading
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Tagged 1844 Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx, birth control, Bolivia, Bosnia, capitalism, Chernobyl disaster, climate change, Contraception, dialectic, dialectics of philosophy and organization, feminism, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, global warming, healthcare workers, Karl Marx, labor, Marxist-Humanism, Middle East, miners, News and Letters Committees, philosophic moment, philosophy of revolution, Raya Dunayevskaya, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, women's liberation, workers
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On THE Philosophic Point and Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy
To understand today we must begin at the beginning, that is to say, as always, with Marx. Specifically the two periods are: the first and the last, the first being the philosophic moment, 1844 [Marx’s Humanist Essays or Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts]. That laid the ground for all future development. The last being the long hard trek and process of developments–all the revolutions, as well as philosophic-political-economic concretizations, culminating in Capital. Yet the full organizational expression of all came only then, i.e., the last decade, especially the 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program. Why only then? Continue reading
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