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Raya Dunayevskaya
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Raya Dunayevskaya (1910 - 1987) was a leader of the Socialist Workers Party
(SWP) and founder of Marxist Humanism in the United States of America.
Contents
* 1 Biography
* 2 External links
* 3 Works
* 3.1 Books
* 3.2 Introductions
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Biography
Born in Ukraine, Dunayevskaya immigrated to the United States and joined the
SWP early in her career. As a native Russian speaker, she was asked to join
the staff of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City. She returned to the USA in 1939.
In 1940 she took part in the split in the SWP that led to the formation of
the Workers Party (WP) headed by Max Shachtman. Within the WP, she formed
the Johnson-Forrest Tendency alongside C. L. R. James (she being "Freddie
Forrest" and he "J.R. Johnson", named for their party cadre names). The
tendency argued that the Soviet Union was state capitalist, while the WP
majority maintained that it was bureaucratic collectivist.
Differences within the WP steadily widened, and in 1947, after a brief
period of independent existence during which they published a series of
documents, the tendency returned to the ranks of the SWP. Their membership
in the SWP was based on a shared insistence that there was a
pre-revolutionary situation just around the corner, and the shared belief
that a Leninist party must be in place to take advantage of the coming
opportunities.
By 1951, with the failure of their shared perspective to materialise, the
tendency evolved a theory that rejected traditional Leninism and saw the
workers as being spontaneously revolutionary. This was borne out for them by
the 1949 miners' strike. In later years they were to pay close attention to
automation, especially in the automobile industry, which they came to see as
paradigmatic of a new stage of capitalism. This led to the tendency leaving
the SWP to begin independent work.
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External links
* Libertarian Communist Library Raya Dunayevskaya holdings
<http://libcom.org/library/taxonomy/term/171>
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Works
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Books
* Philosophy and revolution, New York, 1973
* Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's philosophy of
revolution, Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities P., Brighton, Harvester P.,
1982
* Marxism and freedom: from 1776 until today, Brighton : Harvester P.,
1982
* Women's liberation and the dialectics of revolution: reaching for
the future : a 35-year collection of essays--historic, philosophic, global,
Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Humanities Press, 1985
* The power of negativity : selected writings on the dialectic in
Hegel and Marx, edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson, Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books, 2002
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Introductions
* Frantz Fanon, Soweto & American Black Thought by Lou Turner and John
Alan ; new introd. by Raya Dunayevskaya. - new expanded edition, Chicago :
News and Letters, 1986
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Categories: 1910 births | 1987 deaths | Humanists | Marxist theorists |
Trotskyists
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