AND FROM MARX TO MAO, Raya Dunayevskaya engaged young revolutionaries in the ideas presented in that work.
Footnotes are by the editors.
First, let me take up the question of language. The trouble with philosophers, whether they were only thinking of Utopia, the Future, or of Thought as their special province, was that they limited the concept of freedom. Only living men and women can do that. I find that the Existentialists, on their part, and the Maoists, on theirs, never stop talking about being, existence, doing, practice-but the very last word they understand is Practice, for they are under the delusion that when they practice theory, that is practice, that is activity. What I've been saying, at least since 1953, is the exact opposite, that practice is masses practicing and their practice is not only the doing of deeds but the thinking of thoughts.