Section III. 1985From the projection of Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution to The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection: Retrospective and Perspective
A. Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution
1. Dunayevskaya letter to Suzanne Casey and Diane Lee, written Nov. 8, 1983.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16322.pdf
On how to overcome viewing womens liberation in a separate compartment from philosophy of revolution.
2. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Revolutionary Sisters, written May 1, 1984.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16325.pdf
Announces that a collection of some of the extensive writings on Womens Liberation by Raya Dunayevskaya will be published before the end of 1985. Included also are Olga Domanski essay on Dunayevskayas writings on womens liberation in Pre-Convention Bulletin No. Two, July 1983; Domanski letters to South End Press, written Sept. 29, 1983, and to Simon Silverman, written Feb. 20, 1984, proposing the book; April Silverman letter to Dunayevskaya and Domanski, written April 26, 1984, agreeing to publish book; Domanski letter to Judy Camlin, written May 7, 1984, on the content and form of the book.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Mary Simpson, written May 2, 1984, and notes, written May 19, 1984.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16336.pdf
On womens liberation and literature.
4. Dunayevskaya remarks at the meeting of the Resident Editorial Board meeting of News and Letters Committees, made May 15, 1984, on the kind of male chauvinism equally applicable to men and women involved in the relationship to woman as founder .
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16339.pdf
These remarks were developed in correspondence between Dunayevskaya and Terry Moon, included here in two letters from Dunayevskaya and one from Moon, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya, in May and June 1984.
5. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Aug. 21, 1984.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16347.pdf
On the title, form, and introduction to the new book, especially a discussion on Lenins interest in Life in Hegels Science of Logic and on private enclaves existing apart from Absolute Method. Contains marginalia by Dunayevskaya. Included also is Tentative table of contents for new book with marginalia by Dunayevskaya; Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written on Aug. 23, 1984, on new features of the new book as Absolute Method; marginalia by Dunayevskaya on Eugene Walker letter and notes to Dunayevskaya, both written Aug. 23, 1984, on the draft introduction; Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman, written Aug. 31, 1984, on the book as an encounter with myself. For discussion on the chapter on Latin America, see 16262-4.
6. New Addition to Finished Introduction to the New Book.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16365.pdf
Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Sept. 26, 1984. On additions to Introduction and Overview on Life and organization, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya on entire minutes. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Sept. 27, 1984, on developing a full body of ideas; Dunayevskaya letter to Simon Silverman, written Sept. 17, 1985; Dunayevskaya letter to Michelle Landau, written Sept. 26, 1984; bibliographic table of contents for the new book, compiled by Landau, December 1984, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
7. Manuscript of Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16379.pdf
Included here are table of contents and Introduction and Overview, written Sept. 17, 1984 and edited Oct. 8, 1984, both with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. For changes in the manuscript, see 16451.
8. Dunayevskaya letter to Katherine Davenport, written Sept. 20, 1984.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16412.pdf
On inclusion of Davenports interview with Dunayevskaya, recorded in September 1983, in Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution. Included also are four letters from Davenport and one more from Dunayevskaya exchanged over the next five months; announcement for broadcast of interview on WBAI (New York) on International Womens Day, March 8, 1984.
9. Dunayevskaya letter to Mary Holmes, written Jan. 1, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16419.pdf
On New York as cultural center, Life in Hegels Science of Logic, and talking to oneself, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
10. The 4th book and concentration on March 21 for the whole organization… Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Feb. 17, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16420.pdf
On Marxist-Humanisms two unchainings of the dialectic in 1953 and 1973. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 18, 1985. For Dunayevskaya letters, written Feb. 6 and Feb. 11, 1985, which constitute part of presentation, see 16548.
11. Material proposed for jacket cover, sent to publisher April 13, 1985,
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16425.pdf
with marginalia by Dunayevskaya and marginalia not by her.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Anne Jaclard, written May 23, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16428.pdf
On projecting Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution in New York.
13. Dunayevskaya letter to Neda Azad, written July 1, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16430.pdf
On Azads draft review of Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution.
14. Dunayevskaya letter to Pilar, written July 12, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16435.pdf
On a new book on dialectics of the Party and projections of Marxist-Humanism in India.
15. Dunayevskaya letter to John Marcotte, written July 20, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16436.pdf
On projecting Marxist-Humanism in Mexico.
16. Dunayevskayas inscriptions in Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution to Harry McShane, written Sept. 5, 1985, and to Ana Maria Portugal, Margarita Segura and Richard Huett, written Oct. 1, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16437.pdf
All are typed copies of handwritten inscriptions.
17. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin A. Barry, written Oct. 8, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16439.pdf
On learning from critique.
18. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin Anderson, written probably in December 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16441.pdf
On the methodology of reviewing Rosa Luxemburg, Womens Liberation, and Marxs Philosophy of Revolution. Included also is draft review by Anderson, written Nov. 27, 1985, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. For published review, see 11358.
B. Classes on Marxist-Humanist Perspectives and The Dialectics of Revolution, Fall 1984
1. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Oct. 8, 1984.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16451.pdf
On the new syllabus for classes on Marxist-Humanist Perspectives and the Dialectics of Revolution and an addition to Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Oct. 9, 1984; Proposed Syllabus for New Six-Class Series; flyer. Syllabus and flyer contain marginalia by Dunayevskaya
2. Raya Dunayevskaya remarks from the floor…, made Nov. 4, 1984, in class on Black Consciousness and The Needed American Revolution.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16468.pdf
Transcript not checked by Dunayevskaya.
3. Marginalia by Dunayevskaya on Eugene Walker class presentation,
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16476.pdf
given Nov. 11, 1984.
C .Dialectics of Revolution and Womens Liberation
1. 3 dates. Dunayevskaya notes, written Jan. 4, 1985, on the relation of Marx, Lenin, and Marxist-Humanism to Hegel.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16489.pdf
2. Contents page for Lecture Jan. 27, 1985 on: Dialectics of Revolution and of Womens Liberation by Raya Dunayevskaya, Chairwoman of News and Letters Committees.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16491.pdf
Contents page and notes for lecture given Jan. 27, 1985. Included also is contents page for distribution at lecture.
3. A Lecture Delivered in Chicago, Jan. 27Feb. 3, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16495.pdf
Contents page and manuscript of lecture by Dunayevskaya, with marginalia by her and marginalia on 16516 not by her. The lecture, given in two parts, concluded the class series on Marxist-Humanist Perspectives and The Dialectics of Revolution. Concluding page is missing.
4. Practicing Philosophy OR What Flows from the Dec. 30. 1984 and Jan. 27, 1985 Meetings for Ongoing Activities and Projection of Future Activity.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16517.pdf
Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Jan. 29, 1985.
5. Special Bulletin on Marxist-Humanism as a Body of Ideas: Dialectics of RevolutionAmerican Roots and World Humanist Concepts. Contains Jan. 27Feb. 3, 1985 lecture and In Memoriam to Charles Denby by Dunayevskaya, and presentations by Eugene Walker, Michael Connolly, and Olga Domanski.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16520.pdf
Included are pages from two copies of bulletin with marginalia by Dunayevskaya; date of marginalia is unknown. For complete bulletin, see 8348.
D. Wayne State University exhibit and lecture on the life and work of Raya Dunayevskaya
1. Philip P. Mason, director of Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, letter to Raya Dunayevskaya, written Jan. 4, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16536.pdf
On arrangements for a lecture and exhibit at Wayne State University. Included also is Olga Domanski letter to Mason, written Jan. 12, 1985, confirming arrangements.
2. Olga Domanski letter to Philip P. Mason, written Jan. 15, 1985
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16538.pdf
. On Items proposed for Raya Dunayevskaya Collection Exhibit. Included also are list of items, and Dunayevskaya letter to Olga Domanski, written March 14, 1985, on Reagan and on when RD wrote literary reviews [for] the Negro Champion in 1927.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Jan. 30, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16544.pdf
On a wealth of new-old material that belongs in the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection. Included also are Peter Wermuth letter to Mike Connolly and Olga Domanski, written Jan. 16, 1985 (misdated as 1984), on the material found in Los Angeles, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya; In Memoriam articles for Simon Silverman and Alexander Erlich, News & Letters, JanuaryFebruary 1985. See also 16906.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Feb. 6, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16548.pdf
On covering the range of a half century of writings and activities in the lecture and special bulletin, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. Included also are draft of letter, with revisions dictated by Dunayevskaya, and Dunayevskaya letter to Local Organizers, written Feb. 11, 1985, on unchaining the dialectic in Marxist-Humanism.
5. Dunayevskaya letter to David Joravsky, written Feb. 17, 1985
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16557.pdf
. On fellow traveling with you in Lenins Philosophic Notebooks.
6. March 21Detroit WSU-Sponsored Meeting on the Archives…
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16559.pdf
Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given March 26, 1985. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written March 27, 1985; outline of Talk to be given March 21… For typed copy of lecture, see 8394, and as published, 10218.
7. Ramifications of March 21 and March 22 and the New Bookon how to practice Not by Practice Alone concept and The John Dwyer Collection.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16564.pdf
Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given April 9, 1985. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written April 10, 1985.
8. Dialectics of Revolution: The Black Dimension, Womens Liberation, Anti-War Youth.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16567.pdf
Dunayevskaya lecture at University of Illinois at Chicago, given April 18, 1985. Includes proof of title page of Womens Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution. with marginalia by Dunayevskaya. Included also are Dunayevskaya letters to Gary Clark, written June 21 and July 29, 1985, on projecting Marxist-Humanism to youth and Appalachian audiences.
9. The New Stage We Have Reached Since March 21-22…
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16586.pdf
Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given May 13, 1985. Included also are Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written May 14, 1985; Dunayevskaya letter to The Bay Area NEB…, written May 13, 1985, on three fundamental theoretic contributions to Marxism of our age; Sudan, notes written April 1985; Notes on Outline for Sudan Article, written April 25, 1985.
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Bess Gogol, written June 18, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16597.pdf
On finances and the Depression.
11. Official Call for Plenum.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16598.pdf
Written by Dunayevskaya, June 28, 1985 and published in Pre-Plenum Discussion Bulletin 1, July 1985. Included is bulletin introductory note. Both contain marginalia by Dunayevskaya.
12. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written July 2, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16604.pdf
On the conclusion of the Wayne State University exhibit and new views of Marxist-Humanism by others.
13. Dunayevskaya remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, made Sept. 13, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16605.pdf
On re-thinking 1941 as a point of departure in the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection.
14. Dunayevskaya letter to Tony S., written Nov. 24, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16606.pdf
On my next book, Dialectics and The Party, and the death of Bernard Wolfe. Included also are Tony S. letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 12, 1985, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya; In Memoriam for Bernard Wolfe as it appeared in News & Letters, December 1985.
15. Publicity about the Wayne State University exhibit and lecture on the life and work of Raya Dunayevskaya.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16609.pdf
E. Thirty Years of News & Letters
1. On Projecting What Will Be Happening between Now and July 1The Plenum and the New BookBased on What Has Happened in the Past Three Weeks in Our Organization and in the Objective Situation, Especially Reagan’s Trip to Germany.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16617.pdf
Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given April 29, 1985. Announces research for a special column on the 30th anniversary of News & Letters. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter, written April 30, 1985. See also 16586. For Political-Philosophic Notes on Reagans Visit to Bitburg, see 10236.
2. Dunayevskaya letter to Kevin Anderson, written May 6, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16622.pdf
On projecting Marxist-Humanisms development to Maximilien Rubel. Included also are translation of Rubel letter to Anderson, written April 24, 1985, with marginalia by Dunayevskaya; Anderson letter to Dunayevskaya, written March 7, 1985; Rubel letter to Anderson, written Feb. 22, 1985, in French; English summary of Feb. 22 letter.
3 .On concrete-Universal and relation of process to results re the sum-up of the 30 years of N&L…
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16631.pdf
Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given June 3, 1985. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written June 4, 1985.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to Ted Rosmer, written June 5, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16636.pdf
On Marxist-Humanisms unique combination of worker and intellectual and on Marxist-Humanism and the Middle East. Included also is Rosmer letter to Dunayevskaya, written May 25, 1985.
5. Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given June 17, 1985
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16639.pdf
. On Responsibility for Marxist-Humanism in the Historic Mirror: A Revolutionary-Critical Look (Report by Raya on Theory/Practices Retrospective Look at the First 15 years of N&L, Part One of the 30-Years of N&L and Why the Big Move to Chicago; What We Did This Year; Perspectives for the Future.) Included are typed copy of presentation; minutes which include presentation as well as remarks on why a book on the Party is necessary; meeting agenda.
6. Dunayevskaya letter to John Marcotte, written June 21, 1985
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16656.pdf
. On practicing methodology by showing what it is in any specific stage.
7. Dunayevskaya presentation and remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, given July 10, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16658.pdf
On the draft of Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 1985-86. Included also is Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written July 31, 1985. For the perspectives draft as published, see 10342.
8. Dunayevskaya letter to John W., written July 12, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16663.pdf
On Kansas and Abolitionism.
9. The 1970s and ’80s Retrospective and the New Pamphlet.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16665.pdf
Dunayevskaya presentation to the Resident Editorial Board, given Sept. 30, 1985, on Part III of her column on 30 Years of News & Letters, For the pamphlet, published as The Myriad Global Crises of the 1980s and the Nuclear World since World War II, see 11450.
10. Dunayevskaya letter to Dave Park, written Sept. 30, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16667.pdf
On factory shutdowns and state-capitalist planning.
11. Dunayevskaya notes on News and Letters from 1970 to 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16668.pdf
12. Marginalia by Dunayevskaya on When Archives Are Not Past, But Are Living by Michael Connolly, and on 25 Years of Marxist-Humanism, with only pages containing marginalia by Dunayevskaya. For complete pamphlet, see 6383.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16696.pdf
F. A new edition of Frantz Fanon, Soweto, and American Black Thought
1. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written June 20, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16728.pdf
On the Caribbean and C.L.R. James. Included also is John Alan letter to Lou Turner, written July 3, 1985.
2. Marginalia by Dunayevskaya on The Black Dimension and The Caribbean by Lou Turner.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16734.pdf
Includes draft of subreport and minutes of subreport to 1985 News and Letters Committees plenum. Plenum subreport proposed a new edition of Frantz Fanon, Soweto, and American Black Thought with a new Introduction. For Dunayevskaya remarks at the News and Letters Committees plenum on C.L.R. James and Grenada, see 17243.
3. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Sept. 13, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16746.pdf
Proposes adding an appendix containing two critiques of Negritude, by René Depestre and by Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Included also are New edition of FFSABT, Dunayevskaya presentation and remarks to the Resident Editorial Board, given Sept. 13, 1985; Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written Sept. 9, 1985; marginalia by Dunayevskaya on Ngugi wa Thiong’o, The Language of African Literature.
4. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written Sept. 24, 1985, on her forthcoming article on South Africa in News & Letters.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16767.pdf
For article, see 10385. Included also is John Alan letter to Dunayevskaya, written Sept. 19, 1985.
5. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan, written Oct. 11, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16769.pdf
Presents first draft of Introduction and discusses an appendix containing Dunayevskayas Political-Philosophical Letter on Grenada and other additions. Included also are Draft of The New Introduction of FFSABT by RD and Lou, and four preceding drafts written by Dunayevskaya and Lou Turner, with Dunayevskaya notes in third draft.
6. Dunayevskaya marginalia on letters received about the draft Introduction to Frantz Fanon. Soweto. and American Black Thought from Peter Wermuth, John Alan, Ray McKay, and N.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16798.pdf
McKays letter also contains marginalia not by Dunayevskaya.
7. Dunayevskaya letter to Dear Friends, written Nov. 19, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16807.pdf
On a new type of dialogue, a new kind of periphery in Dunayevskayas New York lecture tour.
8. Dunayevskaya letter to Susan Van Gelder, written Nov. 29, 1985.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16810.pdf
On Sartres Existentialism, typed copy of handwritten note. Included also is Van Gelder letter to Dunayevskaya, written Nov. 11, 1985.
9. Dunayevskaya notes, written Dec. 13 and 14, 1985, for introduction and new additions to Frantz Fanon, Soweto, and American Black Thought.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16812.pdf
Included also are marginalia by Dunayevskaya on Notes on New Black Trade Union FederationCOSATU by Lou Turner and on Castros 1959 speech on humanism.
10. Lou Turner letter to Dunayevskaya, written Dec. 20, 1985, suggesting the addition of Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1985-86 as an Afterword.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16823.pdf
11. Dunayevskaya letter to John Alan and the Resident Editorial Board, written Jan. 17, 1986.
link to PDF file: http://rayadunayevskaya.org/raya/ArchivePDFs/16825.pdf
On New Introduction/Overview to Frantz Fanon, Soweto. and American Black Thought. Included also is fragment of Introduction/Overview. For Dunayevskaya discussion on the same, see 11165-11174. For pamphlet as published in 1986, see 10528.