Volume 15 – Section 2

  • Section II. 1984 “Not By Practice Alone: The Movement from Theory”

  • A. Classes on the “Marxist-Humanist Body of Ideas,” Spring 1984

  • 1. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board of News and Letters Committees, given Dec. 15, 1983.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16140.pdf

    On “embryo and process” in proposed classes and “1984 as a new revolutionary stage” organizationally. Included also is “RD’s Draft Outline of Classes-to-be.”

  • 2. Dunayevskaya presentation to an expanded meeting of the Resident Editorial Board, given Jan. 1, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16145.pdf

    On “Summation as New Perspectives, be it News & Letters, Center’s move to Chicago, or totally new type of classes, all in context of a Body of Ideas…” Included also is syllabus for “Classes in Marxist-Humanist Body of Ideas,” written by Dunayevskaya.

  • 3. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Jan. 17, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16154.pdf

    On Marxist-Humanism as a body of ideas extending back to the 1920s. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Friends,” written Jan. 18, 1984, and “Table of Contents for Lecture I” given by Dunayevskaya; Dunayevskaya letter to Jim Mills, written Jan. 11, 1984; Mills letter to Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 4, 1984, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.

  • 4. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Friends,” written Jan. 30, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16161.pdf

    On addition to Chapter 12 of Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution which relates Marx’s Grundrisse to his last decade.

  • 5. Dunayevskaya presentation and remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, given Feb. 6, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16163.pdf

    On “what a body of ideas, as unity of mental/manual, means.” Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Colleagues,” written Feb. 7, 1984; revised “Table of Contents for Lecture 1”; Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Colleagues” in New York, written March 7, 1984.

  • 6. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Friends,” written March 21, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16167.pdf

    On “projecting an all-rounded view” of the classes and the “1949/50 pamphlet.” Included also is Peter Wermuth letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 14, 1984, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.

  • 7. Dunayevskaya presentation and reports by Lou Turner and Diane Lee to the Resident Editorial Board, given April 4, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16172.pdf

    On “the classes as ground for the move to Chicago” and “going back to Chapter I of P&R on ‘Absolute Idea as New Beginning.’”

  • 8. Dialectics, Dialectics, Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin, and Marxist-Humanism,

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16175.pdf

    Dunayevskaya presentation and remarks in the first class, given Feb. 2, 1984. Included here are two different tape transcriptions. One was partially checked by Dunayevskaya and contains her marginalia; the other was not. Included also are Dunayevskaya lecture notes.

  • 9. Dunayevskaya remarks in classes on “The Marxist-Humanist Body of Ideas” made Feb. 9 through April 1, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16199.pdf

    Transcriptions from audio tapes. The second class transcript was partially checked by Dunayevskaya and contains her marginalia; the others were not.

  • B. Location/Locale: The Center of News and Letters Committees moves to Chicago

  • 2. Dunayevskaya letters to comrades on reorganization of News and Letters Committees.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16236.pdf

    Includes eight letters written between Dec. 18, 1983 and Oct. 30, 1984, on the development of Marxist-Humanism in Chicago, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and on responsibility for Marxist-Humanism. Included also is Mary Holmes reply to one letter.

  • 3. Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, written Jan. 20, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16249.pdf

    On “concrete totality” as it relates to News & Letters. Included also is Walker letter to Dunayevskaya, written Feb. 1, 1984. Both contain marginalia by Dunayevskaya.

  • 5. Dunayevskaya letter to the Philosophic-Technical Committee of News Letters, written April 2, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16256.pdf

    On Chicago as new home “to plan each issue never for moment forgetting the universality of what we are.”

  • 8. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Sept. 10, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16262.pdf

    On “Universals of philosophy as they relate to organization.” Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Friends,” written Sept. 11, 1984.

  • C. Not By Practice Alone: The Movement from Theory

  • 2. Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Friends,” written April 18, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16269.pdf

    On “rough draft of the Perspectives Thesis,” including “meeting the challenge philosophically and practically” in each year of the 1980s. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin A. Barry, written April 18, 1984. For the thesis draft published as “Where are the 1980s Going?” see 8174.

  • 3. Dunayevskaya remarks to Resident Editorial Board, made May 8, 1984

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16272.pdf

    . On “Theory/Practice as the unique characteristic of the whole” News & Letters. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to John Marcotte, written May 13, 1984, and Dunayevskaya letter to Eugene Walker, written June 13, 1984, on projecting what’s new “in the Hegelian sense” in News & Letters.

  • 4. Dunayevskaya remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, made May 22, 1984

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16276.pdf

    . On new stage reached in Marxist-Humanism in the decade of 1974-84, and on the division between philosophy and organization.

  • 5. Dunayevskaya remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, made May 29, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16277.pdf

    On the objective situation for Black America and on differences between C.L.R. James and Dunayevskaya. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Lou Turner, written June 2, 1984, on “the Black world objectively and the Black dimension subjectively.” Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Friends,” written May 30, 1984.

  • 7. “‘The Self-Thinking Idea’ and the Dialectics of a Body of Revolutionary Ideas: What is New in the Concept of Leadership?”

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16285.pdf

    Dunayevskaya presentation to the Executive Session of the News and Letters Committees convention, given July 8, 1984. Included also are outlines with marginalia both dictated and written by Dunayevskaya, and revised outline as published in convention summary.

  • 8. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Aug. 1, 1984.

    link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16300.pdf

    On “Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1984-85 (with form reorganized)…” Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to “Dear Friends,” written Aug. 2, 1984; outlines of Perspectives report as presented and as reorganized. For Perspectives thesis as revised, see 8193.