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Book SynopsisMarx's Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day, a selection of writings by the Marxist-Humanist philosopher and revolutionary Raya Dunayevskaya, brings out the contemporary urgency of Marx's work as a philosophy of revolution in permanence. This volume argues that dialectics permeates the totality of Marx's body of ideas and activities. Major themes include Marx's transformation of the Hegelian dialectic; the inseparability of Marx's economics, humanism, and dialectic; the battle of ideas with post-Marx Marxism, beginning with Engels; Black liberation, internationalism, and women's liberation; today's burning question of the relationship between spontaneity, organization, and philosophy; the emergence of counter-revolution from within the revolution; and the problem of what happens after the revolution.
Table of ContentsEditorial Note and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Raya Dunayevskaya's Renewal of Karl Marx's Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence Franklin Dmitryev, National Organizer, News and Letters Committees, for the Raya Dunayevskaya Memorial Fund
Part 1: The Philosophic Moment of Marx: Marx's Transformation of the Hegelian Dialectic
1 Preface to the Iranian Edition of Marx's Humanist Essay
2 The Theory of Alienation: Marx's Debt to Hegel
3 The Todayness of Marx's Humanism
4 A 1981 View of Marx's 1841 Dialectic
Part 2: The Inseparability of Marx's Economics, Humanism, and Dialectic
5 Capitalist Development and Marx's Capital, 1863-1883
6 Today's Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx'sCapital
7 Letter to Herbert Marcuse on Automation
8 Marx's Grundrisse and the Dialectic in Life and in Thought
9 Capitalist Production/Alienated Labor
10 ; Marx's Critique of Culture
Part 3: Post-Marx Marxism and the Battle of Ideas
11 Post-Marx Marxism as a Category
12 Hobsbawm and Rubel on the Marx Centenary, but Where Is Marx?
13 Marx's Philosophy of Revolution vs. Non-Marxist Scholar-Careerists in "Marxism"
14 Paul Mattick: Economism vs. Marx's Humanism
15 Bertell Ollman: Pitting "Human Nature" against Marx's Humanism
16 The Dialectic of Labor in Marx and "Critical Thought"
17 Gramsci's "Philosophy of Praxis"
18 Rosdolsky's Methodology and Lange's Revisionism
19 Adorno, Kosík, and the Movement from Practice
Part 4: Marx as Philosopher of Revolution in Permanence—Reading Marx for Today
Section A: Marxist-Humanism
20 Introduction to Philosophic Notes
21 The Emergence of a New Movement from Practice that Is Itself a Form of Theory
22 New Stage of Production, New Stage of Cognition, New Kind of Organizatio
23 The Dialectic of Absolute Idea as New Beginning
Section B: Black Liberation and Internationalism
24 Abolitionism and the American Roots of Marxism
25 Marx and the Two-Way Road between the U.S. and Africa
26 Black Intellectuals in Dilemma
Section C: Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution
27 Marx's "New Humanism" and the Dialectics of Women's Liberation in "Primitive" and Modern Societies
28 Marx's and Engels' Studies Contrasted: Relationship of Philosophy and Revolution to Women's Liberation
29 Letter to Adrienne Rich on Women's Liberation, Gay Liberation, and the Dialectic
Section D: Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy
30 Spontaneity, Organization, Philosophy (Dialectics)
31 Philosopher of Permanent Revolution and Organization Man
32 A Post-World War II View of Marx's Humanism, 1843-1883; Marxist Humanism, 1950s-1980s
Part 5: Appendices
Appendix 1: Raya Dunayevskaya's Translations from Marx's Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Appendix 2: Private Property and Communism
Appendix 3: Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic
Bibliography
Index
