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Raya Dunayevskaya, the Glossary

Raya Dunayevskaya (born Raya Shpigel, Ра́я Шпи́гель; May 1, 1910 – June 9, 1987), later Rae Spiegel, also known by the pseudonym Freddie Forest, was the American founder of the philosophy of Marxist humanism in the United States.^[1]

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Abortion

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.

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Absolute (philosophy)

In philosophy (often specifically metaphysics), the absolute, in most common usage, is a perfect, self-sufficient reality that depends upon nothing external to itself.

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Andrew Kliman

Andrew Kliman (born 1955) is an American economist and professor of Economics. Raya Dunayevskaya and Andrew Kliman are American Marxists, marxist humanists and marxist theorists.

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Antoinette Konikow

Antoinette F. Buchholz Konikow (November 1869 – 2 July 1946) was an American physician, Marxist, and radical political activist. Raya Dunayevskaya and Antoinette Konikow are American Marxists, American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, American socialist feminists, communist women writers, Jewish feminists, Jewish socialists and Ukrainian Jews.

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Automation

Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines.

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Automotive industry

The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, repairing, and modification of motor vehicles.

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Birth control

Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bureaucratic collectivism

Bureaucratic collectivism is a theory of class society.

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C. L. R. James

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989),Fraser, C. Gerald,, The New York Times, 2 June 1989. Raya Dunayevskaya and C. L. R. James are marxist humanists and Members of the Workers Party (United States).

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

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Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

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Cyril Smith (Marxist)

Cyril Smith (1929-2008) was a British lecturer of statistics at the London School of Economics, socialist, and revolutionary humanist. Raya Dunayevskaya and Cyril Smith (Marxist) are marxist theorists.

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Degenerated workers' state

In Trotskyist political theory, a degenerated workers' state is a dictatorship of the proletariat in which the working class' democratic control over the state has given way to control by a bureaucratic clique.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Dialectic

Dialectic (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argumentation.

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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844), also known as the Paris Manuscripts (Pariser Manuskripte) or as the 1844 Manuscripts, are a series of notes written between April and August 1844 by Karl Marx.

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Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. Raya Dunayevskaya and Erich Fromm are American Marxists, American humanists, Jewish humanists, Jewish philosophers, Jewish socialists, marxist humanists and marxist theorists.

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Exile

Exile or banishment, is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose.

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Frantz Fanon

Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a French Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). Raya Dunayevskaya and Frantz Fanon are marxist humanists and marxist theorists.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Raya Dunayevskaya and Friedrich Engels are marxist theorists.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy. Raya Dunayevskaya and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel are Hegelian philosophers.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Harry McShane

Harry McShane (7 May 1891 – 12 April 1988) was a Scottish socialist, and a close colleague of John Maclean.

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Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German–American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Raya Dunayevskaya and Herbert Marcuse are American Marxists, Jewish philosophers, marxist humanists and marxist theorists.

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History and Class Consciousness

History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein – Studien über marxistische Dialektik) is a 1923 book by the Hungarian philosopher György Lukács, in which the author re-emphasizes the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's influence on the philosopher Karl Marx, analyzes the concept of "class consciousness," and attempts a philosophical justification of Bolshevism.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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Johnson–Forest Tendency

The Johnson–Forest Tendency, whose supporters are called the Johnsonites, is a radical left tendency in the United States associated with Marxist humanist theorists C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya, who used the pseudonyms J. R. Johnson and Freddie Forest respectively.

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Raya Dunayevskaya and Karl Marx are Jewish socialists and marxist theorists.

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Kevin B. Anderson

Kevin B. Anderson (born 1948) is an American sociologist, Marxist humanist, author, and professor. Raya Dunayevskaya and Kevin B. Anderson are marxist humanists and marxist theorists.

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Leninism

Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.

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Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronstein (– 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. Raya Dunayevskaya and Leon Trotsky are marxist theorists.

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Litvaks

Litvaks or Lita'im are Jews with roots in the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (covering present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, the northeastern Suwałki and Białystok regions of Poland, as well as adjacent areas of modern-day Russia and Ukraine).

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Marxism and Freedom

Marxism and Freedom: from 1776 Until Today is a 1958 book by the philosopher and activist Raya Dunayevskaya, the first volume of her 'Trilogy of Revolution'.

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Marxist feminism

Marxist feminism is a philosophical variant of feminism that incorporates and extends Marxist theory.

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Marxist humanism

Marxist humanism is an international body of thought and political action rooted in a humanist interpretation of the works of Karl Marx.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Mitchell Library

The Mitchell Library is a large public library located in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them or managed the sovereignty of the states in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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News and Letters Committees

News and Letters Committees is a small revolutionary-socialist organization in the United States.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Podolia Governorate

Podolia Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Southwestern Krai of the Russian Empire.

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Praxis (process)

Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice.

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Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg (Róża Luksemburg,;; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. Raya Dunayevskaya and Rosa Luxemburg are communist women writers, Jewish philosophers, Jewish socialists, marxist theorists and women Marxists.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one.

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Social revolutions are sudden changes in the structure and nature of society.

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Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.

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A socialist state, socialist republic, or socialist country, sometimes referred to as a workers' state or workers' republic, is a sovereign state constitutionally dedicated to the establishment of socialism.

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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist party in the United States.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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State capitalism

State capitalism is an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial (i.e., for-profit) economic activity and where the means of production are nationalized as state-owned enterprises (including the processes of capital accumulation, centralized management and wage labor).

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Telos (journal)

Telos is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles on politics, philosophy, and critical theory, with a particular focus on contemporary political, social, and cultural issues.

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The Phenomenology of Spirit

The Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes) is the most widely-discussed philosophical work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; its German title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind.

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Tony Cliff

Tony Cliff (born Yigael Glückstein, יגאל גליקשטיין; 20 May 1917 – 9 April 2000) was a Trotskyist activist. Raya Dunayevskaya and Tony Cliff are Jewish socialists and marxist theorists.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Vinnytsia Oblast

Vinnytsia Oblast (translit), also referred to as Vinnychchyna (Вінниччина), is an oblast in central Ukraine.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. Raya Dunayevskaya and Vladimir Lenin are marxist theorists.

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Walter P. Reuther Library

The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, located on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, contains millions of primary source documents related to the labor history of the United States, urban affairs, and the Wayne State University Archives.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raya_Dunayevskaya

Also known as Raya Dunavevskaya.

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See also

American revolutionaries

Jewish humanists

Members of the Workers Party (United States)

People from Mogilyovsky Uyezd (Podolian Governorate)

Women Marxists

References