Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation

ISBN-13: 9783030537197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 374 str.

Anderson, Kevin B.

Opis

Raya Dunayevskaya is one of the twentieth century’s great but underappreciated Marxist and feminist thinkers. Her unique philosophy and practice of Marxist-Humanism—as well as her grasp of Hegelian dialectics and the deep humanism that informs Marx’s thought—has 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 women’s 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 Dunayevskaya’s 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 women’s liberation and to struggles over alienation and exploitation the world over. Dunayevskaya’s 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.

Recenzje

"Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism is particularly helpful to readers unacquainted with Marxism and Freedom and the arguments and political positions that she developed and found validation for in Marx." (Sean Sheehan, Marx and Philosophy, marxandphilosophy.org.uk, May 20, 2021)

"[This] book ... make important contributions to pushing Marxist debates beyond a dichotomizing critique of intersectionality theory. And moving forward, an intersectional historical materialism can foster greater appreciation of the mutually constitutive dynamics between capitalism's variegated political economic landscapes and heterogenous social terrains characterized by differential subordination. Such a dialectical approach is particularly relevant in the present, given the proliferation of diverse 'non-standard' labour arrangements, alongside reactionary movements globally, which seek to deepen existing cleavages of differential subordination." (Stephen Campbell, Dialectical Anthropology, April 30, 2021)

O autorze

Kevin B. Anderson is Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. His previous books include Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism (1995), Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (with Janet Afary, 2005), and Marx at the Margins (2010/2016).

Kieran Durkin is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at University of York, UK and has been a Visiting Scholar at University of California Santa Barbara, where he studied the Humanist Marxist tradition. He is author of The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm (2014) and  Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory (co-edited with Joan Braune, 2020).

Heather A. Brown is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Westfield State University, USA. She has written widely on Marxism, feminism, and ecology and is the author of Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study (2012).

Blurb

Raya Dunayevskaya is one of the twentieth century’s great but underappreciated Marxist and feminist thinkers. She developed a unique philosophy and practice of Marxist-Humanism, as well as an original reading of Hegelian dialectics and the deep humanism that informs Marx’s thought. From these contributions, along with her writings on Rosa Luxemburg, and on Black and women’s liberation, we are offered an indispensable resource for navigating the struggles of today. In this first-ever collection of essays on Dunayevskaya, a diverse group of writers revisits her rich legacy and brings to life her most important ideas.

Kevin B. Anderson is Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. 

Kieran Durkin is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at University of York, UK.

Heather A. Brown is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Westfield State University, USA.