Talk:Raya Dunayevskaya

message: This page seems to need serious work. I am not a News and Letters member but this page is seriously incomplete. I tried to fix it by adding the reference to News & Letters which didn't even exist but there is much much more that someone needs to write about the latter half of Raya's life.Rmalhotr 03:16, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The (1) reference seems to be confused: what is its meaning?  It links to an article from 2003 about Dunayevskaya's perspective on Luxemburg but it is not clear what relevance that has to the former's Jewish origins.  This editor does not understand why the reference was added or how it relates to the article.  Watchdog07 17:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of reference? 

message: I have not checked this in ages and am astonished at Franklin's work (as well as others). I have taken the liberty of fixing the spelling of my name in Franklin's very first comment above (I failed to sign my original comment so it's partly my fault). However, I wanted to alert folks here to the fact that the Italian language version of wikipedia has information on Raya Dunayevskaya in the entry on the Boridigst political leader, Damen. I don't know Italian but I am sure Franklin knows exactly what I am talking about. In my recollection, the book, 25 Years of Marxist-Humanism, has useful information, I think particularly about a 1958 international conference. Even if that is seen as too trivial, I think a broader comment about the segment of the left that N&L worked with internationally and that Raya directly influenced is warranted. Also perhaps more should be said about Hobgoblin if there really is a fully fledged British section now.
Rmalhotr 02:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  News and Letters' International Contacts 

message: Good job.  Looks nice Dialectics.  I like your contribution of adding an info box.
allna.lummus (talk) 18:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Comments 

message: The edits made recently were undoubtedly well-intentioned, but I've reverted one bit because in fact Dunayevskaya did join the revolutionary movement in her childhood.  No, it was not a dangling phrase. Franklin Dmitryev (talk) 03:20, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "in her childhood" 

message: I hope we're not going to have an edit war about this.  "Black masses as vanguard" was in fact a topic taken up in all of Dunayevskaya's books.  If you are so unfamiliar with her writings that you think she wrote very little on this subject, then please recognize that you are not in a position to make judgments about this topic. Franklin Dmitryev (talk) 17:24, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black masses as vanguard 

message: I'm puzzled about the judgment that Dunayevskaya was not a libertarian Marxist, with the explanation, "Dunayevskaya was not a 'Libertarian Marxist' -- she disassociated herself from the ultra-left."  This implies a rather narrow definition of what "Libertarian Marxism" encompasses.  For instance, libcom.org includes her among people whose writings they include in their online library.  And the wikipedia entry on Libertarian Marxism says this:
"Libertarian Marxism includes such currents as Luxemburgism, council communism, left communism, Socialisme ou Barbarie, the Johnson-Forest tendency, world socialism, Lettrism/Situationism and operaismo/autonomism, and New Left.[8] Libertarian Marxism has often had a strong influence on both post-left and social anarchists. Notable theorists of libertarian Marxism have included Anton Pannekoek, Raya Dunayevskaya, CLR James, Antonio Negri, Cornelius Castoriadis, Maurice Brinton, Guy Debord, Daniel Guérin, Ernesto Screpanti and Raoul Vaneigem." (The footnote is to .)
Seems that to be consistent one would have to delete all of that paragraph and much more in that article, as well as scrutinizing the entries on all the named Marxists to make sure they wouldn't be included.  Or else one should accept that it is a rather broad category, not to be equated with "ultra-left."  Can the anonymous IP address give us some better explanation, please?
Franklin Dmitryev (talk) 22:32, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Libertarian Marxism