The Relevance of Marxist-Humanism Today: A Raya Dunayevskaya Centenary Forum
Presented by Marxist-Humanist Initiative
Tues. April 6, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
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 »
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 »
The author examines Dunayevskaya’s method of concretizing Marx and suggests that Hegel and Marx together spell out the material, conceptual ground for developing an alternative to capitalism today.
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