The Self-Thinking Idea Does Not Mean You Thinking: A contribution to our ongoing effort to work out, in theory and practice, how to renew Marxist-Humanism organizationally

A new statement by the Marxist-Humanist Initiative, followed here by two writings by Raya Dunayevskaya from her last period of work on the relationship between philosophy and organization.  Read the rest of this entry »

Video: June 23 NYC Meeting in Series on “Confronting Capitalism’s Economic Crisis”

Here is a video of the first meeting in the on-going series. It includes talks by Andrew Kliman: “The economic crisis and left responses,” and by Anne Jaclard: “A new organization for a time of crisis,” and discussion with the audience.

Check out information for rest of the seminars in this series. Andrew Kliman’s charts for the presentation in this movie are posted below the jump for reference.

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On “New Passions and New Forces”: Marxist-Humanism’s Break from Both Spontaneism and Vanguardism

In a April 18, 1976 piece, “Our Original Contribution to the Dialectic of the Absolute Idea as New Beginning:  In Theory, and Leadership, and Practice,” Dunayevskaya stated,

[A]t the height of Capital, we see [Marx] breaking up the Absolute Idea by speaking about the general absolute law of capitalist accumulation.  But its opposite was always taken to be only the unemployed army – and not the absolutely, totally opposite which we take it to be now.  Marx only mentioned it as ‘the new passions and new forces for the reconstruction of society.’  The negation of the negation at that point certainly wasn’t spelled out. Read the rest of this entry »

Reply to Chicago Political Workshop, Chris Cutrone, and Principia Dialectica

On plagiarism, Postone, and “the” present

May 27, 2009

Dear Comrades,

1. First, I want to respond to the charge that I plagiarize Moishe Postone, by categorically denying it. Read the rest of this entry »

Why a New Organization?

As the global capitalist economy spirals ever deeper into the most severe and acute crisis since the Great Depression, we are proud to respond by announcing the formation of the Marxist-Humanist Initiative. This new U.S. organization is a freely associated collective that seeks to rebuild an organization capable of projecting, developing, and concretizing the bodies of ideas of Karl Marx and of Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987), who founded Marxist-Humanism in the U.S. We aim to renew the legacy of Marxist-Humanism for the new times in which we live.
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