The Power of Negativity Selected Writings on

Raya Dunayevskaya is hailed as the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States. After breaking with Leon Trotsky in 1939 and heading west, Dunayevskaya labeled Stalin's Russia a totalitarian state-capitalist society. In this new collection of her essays co-editors Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson have crafted a work in which the true power and originality of Dunayevskaya's ideas are displayed.

Acknowledgments

ix

Abbreviations

xi

Editors' Note

xiii

Introduction

xv

Part I: The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism

Presentation on the Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy (June 1, 1987)

3

(12)

The Philosophic Point

Dialectics of Organization

Conclusion: Untrodden Paths in Organization

Letters on Hegel's Absolutes of May 12 and 20, 1953

15

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Letter on Hegel's Science of Logic (May 12, 1953)

Letter on Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (May 20, 1953)

Part II: Studies in Hegelian and Marxian Dialectics, 1956--63

Notes on Hegel's Phenomenology

35

(14)

Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic

49

(28)

Volume I: Objective Logic

Volume II: Subjective Logic or the Doctrine of the Notion

Notes on the Smaller Logic from the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

77

(14)

Preliminary Notion

First Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World

Second Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World

Third Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World

The Proximate Notion of Logic with its Subdivision

First Subdivision of Logic---The Doctrine of Being

Second Subdivision of Logic---The Doctrine of Essence

Third Subdivision of Logic---The Doctrine of the Notion

Dialogue on the Dialectic

91

(38)

Letter on Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 until Today (May 18, 1956)

Letter to Herbert Marcuse (July 15, 1958)

Letter to Herbert Marcuse (October 16, 1960)

Letter to Herbert Marcuse (January 12, 1961)

Letter to Charles Denby (March 10, 1960)

Letter to Jonathan Spence (June 1, 1961)

Letter to Erich Fromm (November 11, 1963)

Part III: Theory and Practice at a Turning Point, 1964--71

Letter of October 27, 1964, to Herbert Marcuse

129

(8)

Hegel's Dialectic and the Freedom Struggles of the 1960s

137

(24)

Lecture in Japan on Hegel

Presentation to Black/Red Conference

Logic as Stages of Freedom, Stages of Freedom as Logic, or the Needed American Revolution

Toward Philosophy and Revolution, from Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao

161

(16)

Letter on Hegel's Theory of Tragedy (November 17, 1968)

Letter on Draft of Chapter 1 of Philosophy and Revolution (October 13, 1968)

The Newness of our Philosophic-Historic Contribution

Part IV: After Philosophy and Revolution: Hegel's Absolutes and Marx's Humanism, 1972--81

Hegel's Absolute as New Beginning

177

(14)

Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fanon, and the Dialectics of Liberation Today

191

(22)

On Lukacs' Marxism

213

(12)

Letter on Lukacs (December 14, 1972)

Lukacs' Philosophic Dimension

The Hegel-Marx Relation Revisited

225

(12)

Letter to Harry McShane

On the 150th Anniversary of Hegel's Death: How Valid for our Day Are Marx's Hegelian Roots?

Part V: The Changed World and the Need for Philosophic New Beginnings, 1982--87

Marxist-Humanism and the Battle of Ideas

237

(36)

On the Battle of Ideas: Philosophic-Theoretic Points of Departure as Political Tendencies Respond to the Objective Situation

Letter on Karl Korsch (1983)

Marxist-Humanism: The Summation That Is a New Beginning, Subjectively and Objectively (1983)

Forces of Revolt as Reason, Philosophy as Force of Revolt

273

(46)

Not by Practice Alone: The Movement from Theory

Letter to the Youth on the Needed Total Uprooting of the Old and the Creation of New Human Relations

Dialectics of Revolution and of Women's Liberation

The Power of Abstraction

Another Look at Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind

319

(6)

Letter on Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind (June 26, 1986)

Introduction to ``Why Hegel's Phenomenology? Why Now?''

Reconsidering the Dialectic: Critiquing Lenin...and the Dialectics of Philosophy and Organization

325

(18)

Letter to Louis Dupre

Letter to George Armstrong Kelly

Talking to Myself

On Political Divides and Philosophic New Beginnings

Appendix Excerpts from 1949--51 Philosophic Correspondence with C. L. R. James and Grace Lee Boggs

343

(14)

Select Bibliography

357

(10)

Index

367

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