Raya Dunayevskaya

Raya Dunayevskaya ( Freddie pseudonym Forrest, born May 1, 1910 in Jaryschiw, † June 9, 1987 in Chicago) was an American Marxist activist, author and translator.

Life

Born in the Ukraine Dunayevskaya emigrated with her parents from 1920 to Chicago. There she first joined as a teenager of the U.S. Communist Party. After she was excluded from this, she joined the Trotskyist movement and worked in 1938/39 Mexico as secretary of Leon Trotsky. After cleavage, the U.S. Trotskyists they belonged together with CLR James to that wing of Trotskyism (Johnson - Forrest Tendency), who saw in the Stalinist Soviet Union not only a " bureaucratic degeneration " of socialism, but a rollback to the capitalist mode of production in form of "state capitalism". Later she worked on the interplay of feminism and Marxism and designed a new theoretical synthesis of the works of Marx and Hegel under the name of Marxism- Humanism. 1955 founded Dunayevskaya the today still existing newspaper News & Letters, whose editorial she led until her death in 1987. Dunayevskaya translated Lenin's Philosophical Notebooks into English.

Writings

  • Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today. Bookman, New York 1958
  • Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao. Delacorte Press, New York 1973 Algebra of revolution. Philosophy of liberation from Hegel to Sartre. Europa Verlag, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-203-50764-1
  • Rosa Luxembourg. Women's Liberation and Marx's theory of revolution. Argument- Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88619-245-8
  • The power of negativity. Writings on the philosophy of revolution. Restlessness, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89771-472-4
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