News and Letters Committees invites you to a hybrid in-person/online book group on
Philosophy and Revolution
Learn about Marxist-Humanism by participating in a study group on the philosophy the right wing despises and totally mischaracterizes. This week’s chapter one, which we will read out loud, takes up the “dialectic” of the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, whom Karl Marx studied in college and throughout his life. Dialectic was Hegel’s term for the “ceaseless movement of Ideas and of History” which he witnessed during his lifetime. Hegel saw human beings actively shaping world history in a period when it was generally assumed that history was random or only controlled by religious deities. After observing the French Revolution, he developed his works about the dialectical process that later inspired revolutionaries such as Marx.
Erich Fromm advises: “For everyone who is seriously interested in the forces which form and deform the present and the future, this book is to be most warmly recommended.
Louis Dupre writes of this work: “Whereas earlier interpretations limit the revolutionary impact of Hegel’s thought to the sociopolitical order, Dunayevskaya aims at a total liberation of the human person. She assumes within her theory of class struggle issues as diverse as feminism and black liberation.”
Raya Dunayevskaya in her study, Detroit, Mich.
Of her own book Raya Dunayevskaya wrote: “Only when the ideal of a new classless society no longer remains simply as an ‘underlying philosophy’ but becomes social practice—at one and the same time uprooting the exploitative inhuman capital-labor relations as well as creating totally new human relations, beginning with the Man-Woman relationship—can we say we have met the challenge of our age both in philosophy and in revolution. It is to this I hope Philosophy and Revolution has made a contribution.”
TIME: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Central Time
DATE: Monday, August 17, 2026
PLACE: Sulzer Regional Library, Study Room A
4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625.
Hybrid meeting. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84566890802
Philosophy and Revolution is available as paperback and ebook.
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