The Self-Thinking Idea Does Not Mean You Thinking

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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

By Marxist-Humanist Initiative, October 2009. 26 pgs.

An urgent statement from the membership of Marxist-Humanist Initiative to “all those concerned about the future of Marxist-Humanist philosophy and organization.”

 
“Owing to the necessity for proof, and to the needed organizational responsibility for this process in order to ensure that the Idea develops to its ultimate, ideas simply do not ‘have wings’ in the sense that the self-development of Marxist-Humanist philosophy requires …. Intellectual production without the necessary public process of demonstration and rigorous scrutiny is insufficient for the continued development of Marxist-Humanism, no matter how many works are republished or new ones are published.”

 
Contents:
1. Toward the Collective Organizational Renewal of the Marxist-Humanist Philosophy of Revolution

2. Why the Marxist-Humanist Philosophy of Revolution Requires Collective Organizational Renewal

Appendices, by Raya Dunayevskaya:
* “On Third Attitude to Objectivity”
* Letter to George Armstrong Kelly on Hegel’s “Third Attitude to Objectivity”