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From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: The methodology of Perspectives

May 1, 2020

History warns us of other critical periods…which give us historic proof that mere opposition to such monstrous degeneration (of capitalism) does not lead to new societies. On the contrary. It only assures the transformation of that type of bare opposition into one form or another of a halfway house.

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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: A return to the Humanism of Marx

July 22, 2018

At a time when the social crisis is total—political, economic, cultural, ideological—this clarion call for a return to the original form of the Humanism of Marxism speaks to today’s need for more than just political change, but for a total view and a total solution to global retrogression.

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Spontaneity of action and organization of thought: In memoriam of the Hungarian Revolution

November 27, 2016

On the anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, we present a letter by Dunayevskaya whose concept of the relationship of spontaneity and party, and its inseparability from organization of thought, speaks to the dialectics of organization and philosophy.

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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: The meaning of revolutionary archives

June 27, 2015

In celebrating the online publication of the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, we present excerpts of her Introduction/Overview to Volume XII, which takes up the Marxist-Humanist concept of archives as not only retrospective but perspective, in the quest to establish “continuity with the historic course of human development.”

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Marxist-Humanist links

  • The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection
  • 2020-2021 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives
  • Praxis en América Latina
  • 2019-2020 Marxist Humanist Perspectives

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