Volume 12 – Section 3

  • Section III Philosophic Correspondence, Miners’ Strike and the Beginning of the Break-Up of the State-Capitalist Tendency, 1948-55

    The letters included in this section supplement the 35 unpublished letters that appear in Vol. III of the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection (# 1595 through 1734). For a full view of developments in this period, the documents listed below should be read together with Vol. III of the Collection, beginning at # 1476.

  • A. Letters on the eve of Dunayevskaya’s translation of Lenin’s Philosophic Notebooks

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/9209.pdf

    (1) Dunayevskaya (RD) to C.L.R. James (CLRJ). Nov. 22, 1948. On Hegel’s Logic and Marx’s Capital. (2) RD to Grace Lee (GL). Jan. 5, 1949. On dialectic in Capital. (3) RD to CLRJ. Jan. 27, 1949. Cover letter with Dunayevskaya’s translation of Lenin on Hegel’s Philosophy of History. (4) RD to GL. Jan. 31, 1949. On organizational developments. (5) RD to GL. Feb. 1, 1949. On Hegel’s “infinite in the finite”. (6) RD to GL. Feb. 10, 1949. On Determinate Being in Hegel and “barrier and limit”. (7) GL to RD. Feb. 14, 1949. Comments on RD’s letters. (8) RD to GL. Feb. 17, 1949. On Determinate Being in Hegel, and relation to Marx and Lenin’s work.

  • B. Letters after Dunayevskaya’s study of Lenin’s Philosophic Notebooks, 1949

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/9224.pdf

    (1) RD to CLRJ. Oct. 5, 1949.On categories in Marx.(2) “Notes on Ch. I of Marx’s Capital: Its Relation to Hegel’s Logic”. Mss. by RD (6 pp.). Oct. 5, 1949. (3) RD to GL. Oct. 12, 1949. On Marx, Ricardo and Bukharin

  • C. The Miners’ General Strike of 1949-50 and the Road to the Break-Up of the State-Capitalist Tendency

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/9234.pdf

    (1) William Warde to RD, April 4, 1950. Socialist Workers Party view of the coal miners general strike. (2) RD to CLRJ. May 5, 1950. On Engels as “my chief enemy”. (3) RD to Warde. June 25, 1950. On Yugoslav contacts. (4) RD to CLRJ. Oct. 30, 1950. On Youngstown, Ohio, activity. (5) RD to CLRJ. July 19, 1950. On historic stages in 19th and 20th century. (6) RD to CLRJ. Oct. 20, 1950 On commodity-form. (7) RD to CLRJ. Dec. 2, 1950. On the “placing of our tendency historically”.

  • (8) Two presentations by RD on “Form and Plan”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/9250.pdf

    Dec. 27, 1950 and Jan. 14, 1951.38 pp. type script (9) GL to RD. Jan. 18, 1951. On RD’s “tremendous leap”.(10) RD to CLRJ. Jan. 31, 1951. On developments inside Russia.

  • Letters, manuscripts, 1951

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/9291.pdf

    (11) RD to CLRJ. March 2, 1951. On Bukharin, tying up “intelligensia and labor bureaucracy with plan” (12) “Cooperative Form of Labor vs. Abstract Labor” Mss. by RD. March 2, 1951.(13) RD to “Cy” (Charles Denby). April 5 1951. On Marx, Lenin and Black America. (14) RD to CLRJ. April 27, 1951. On document by Warde and Wright. (15) RD to CLRJ. June 16, 1951. On the exact date of “Lenin’s LEAP” in his Hegel studies. This is the last letter written while the state-capitalist tendency was still within the Socialist Workers Party. In July, 1951, they split and formed Correspondence Committees. A division, however, appeared in the Committees even before the first issue of their mimeographed paper, Correspondence. (16) RD to “Hermann” (John Zupan). Sept. 13, 1951. On the new miners’ strike and the first issue of mimeographed Correspondence. (17) CLRJ to “Irv”. Sept. 17, 1951. CLRJ’s letter of opposition to “the whole West Virginia business”, declaring that even if 500,000 miners struck against John L. Lewis, it would not change his plans for the newspaper. He did not want to center the newspaper around new worker activity coming out of the 1949-50 miners’ general strike. (18) “Miners Wildcat Strike”. Lead article in Vol. 1, #1 of mimeographed Correspondence. Nov. 15, 1951.(19) RD to CLRJ. Nov. 23, 1951 and Nov. 27, 1951. Two letters on his “tone”.

  • (20) “Two Worlds: Notes from a Diary”.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/9328.pdf

    Selected columns by Dunayevskaya from printed Correspondence, Oct. 3, 1953 through Dec. 25, 1954. The columns appeared unsigned. Subjects include discussion of A.J. Muste and the 1930s; Russia in economic crisis; McCarthy’s lawyer, Roy Cohn; the Vorkuta labor camp revolt; David Walker’s Appeal; Wendell Phillips and Eugene V. Debs.