“Only live human beings can create the revolutionary dialectic forever anew.” (Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, p. 195.)

A Raya Dunayevskaya Centenary Celebration

Wednesday, September 22

7-9:30 PM

Raya Dunayevskaya founded the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism after years of activism in labor and African-American freedom struggles and participation in several socialist parties. She embraced the Women’s Liberation Movement philosophically and theoretically. Besides her 4 books (Marxism & Freedom, 1958, Philosophy & Revolution, 1973, Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, 1981 and Women’s Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution, 1985) Dunayevskaya wrote a column in News & Letters newspaper—the first left paper to have a Black production worker as editor. Dunayevskaya remained active as Chairwoman of News & Letters Committees until her death in 1987.

“Ours is the age that can meet the challenge of the times when we work out so new a relationship of theory to practice that the proof of the unity is in the Subject’s own self-development. Philosophy and revolution will first then liberate the innate talents of men and women who will become whole. Whether or not we recognize that this is the task history has ‘assigned’ to our epoch, it is a task that remains to be done.”(Philosophy & Revolution, p. 292.)

LOCATION: Bluestockings Bookstore (a worker-owned, fair trade activist café) 172 Allen Street (between Rivington & Stanton; near Houston & 1^st Ave.) F Train to 2^nd Avenue, exit @ 1^st Avenue and walk 1 block south. 212-777-6028.

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