Marxist-Humanist Initiative
Spring 2022
5-session class series on Raya Dunayevskaya’s 1981 book, Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution
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Dates and Topics
April 24:
Dunayevskaya’s May 1981 introduction
Part I, “Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist”
May 8:
Adrienne Rich’s “Foreword” (in 2d ed.)
Part 2, “The Women’s Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason”
May 22:
Dunayevskaya’s Sept. 1981 introduction, “Marxist-Humanism’s Challenge to all Post-Marx Marxists”
Chap. 9, “Marx Discovers a New Continent of Thought and Revolution”
Section 1 of Chap. 10 (on Marx’s Grundrisse)
June 5:
Sections 2 and 3 of Chap. 10 (on significance of French edition of Marx’s Capital)
Chap. 11, “The Philosopher of Permanent Revolution Creates New Ground for Organization”
June 19:
Chap. 12, “The Last Writings of Marx Point a Trail to the 1980s”
Class participants are expected to have read the session’s readings prior to the class session.