Learn about Marxist-Humanism and join a study group on the philosophy the right wing despises and totally mischaracterizes. Explore the truth about this philosophy of freedom from the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S., Raya Dunayevskaya. We’ll be taking up her second book in her “Trilogy of Revolution”: Philosophy and Revolution.

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
DATE: Monday, July 20, 2026
PLACE: The Community Room of the Rogers Park Branch Library,
6907 North Clark Street, Chicago 60626.

Hybrid meeting. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83598169070

Philosophy and Revolution is available as paperback and ebook.

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