Raya Dunayevskaya

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Raya Dunayevskaya

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

Life

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

Fonts

  • 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 the Revolution. Philosophy of Liberation from Hegel to Sartre. Europaverlag, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-203-50764-1
  • Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's philosophy of revolution. Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands 1982
    • Rosa Luxemburg. Women's Liberation and Marx's Theory of Revolution. Argument-Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88619-245-8
  • Women's liberation and the dialectics of revolution: reaching for the future: a 35-year collection of essays - historic, philosophic, global. Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands 1985
  • The power of negativity: selected writings on the dialectic in Hegel and Marx. Edited by Peter Hudis & Kevin B. Anderson. Lexington Books, Lanham 2002
    • The power of negativity. Writings on the philosophy of revolution. Unrast, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89771-472-4

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SURNAME Dunayevskaya, Raya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forrest, Freddie (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Marxist activist, writer, and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Yaryshiv
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1987
Place of death Chicago