Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism
by Kevin B. Anderson
2020-12-30 09:40:18
Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism
by Kevin B. Anderson
2020-12-30 09:40:18
Raya Dunayevskaya is one of the twentieth centuryâs great but underappreciated Marxist and feminist thinkers. Her unique philosophy and practice of Marxist-Humanismâas well as her grasp of Hegelian dialectics and the deep humanism that info...
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Raya Dunayevskaya is one of the twentieth centuryâs great but underappreciated Marxist and feminist thinkers. Her unique philosophy and practice of Marxist-Humanismâas well as her grasp of Hegelian dialectics and the deep humanism that informs Marxâs thoughtâhas much to teach us today. From her account of state capitalism (part of her socio-economic critique of Stalinism, fascism, and the welfare state), to her writings on Rosa Luxemburg, Black and womenâs liberation, and labor, we are offered indispensable resources for navigating the perils of sexism, racism, capitalism, and authoritarianism. This collection of essays, from a diverse group of writers, brings to life Dunayevskayaâs important contributions. Revisiting her rich legacy, the contributors to this volume engage with her resolute Marxist-Humanist focus and her penetrating dialectics of liberation that is connected to Black, labor, and womenâs liberation and to struggles over alienation and exploitation the world over. Dunayevskayaâs Marxist-Humanism is recovered for the twenty-first century and turned, as it was with Dunayevskaya herself, to face the multiple alienations and de-humanizations of social life.
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