The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 19541978
Studies in Marxism and Humanism
Series Editors:
Kevin B. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Hudis, Oakton Community College
In the spirit of the dialectical humanist perspective developed by Raya Dunayevskaya (19101987), rooted in the thought of Marx and Hegel, this series publishes across a broad spectrum focusing on figures and ideas that are fundamental to the development of Marxist Humanism. This will include historical works, works by Dunayevskaya herself, and new work that investigates or is based upon Marxist Humanist thought.
Titles in the Series
The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 19541978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory , edited by Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell
The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 19541978
Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and
Critical Theory
Edited by
Kevin B. Anderson
Russell Rockwell
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The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm correspondence, 19541978 : dialogues on Hegel,
Marx, and critical theory / edited by Kevin B. Anderson, Russell Rockwell.
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1. Marx, Karl, 18181883Political and social views. 2. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 17701831Political and social views. 3. Political sciencePhilosophy. 4. Philosophy, Marxist. 5. Dunayevskaya, RayaCorrespondence. 6. Marcuse, Herbert, 18981979Correspondence. 7. Fromm, Erich, 19001980Correspondence. I. Anderson, Kevin, 1948 II. Rockwell, Russell, 1952
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Contents
Editors Note
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse Correspondence, 19541978
1 | The Early Letters: Debating Marxist Dialectics and Hegels Absolute Idea |
2 | Dunayevskayas Marxism and Freedom and Beyond |
3 | On Technology and Labor on the Eve of Marcuses One-Dimensional Man |
4 | The Later Correspondence: Winding Down During the Period of the New Left |
Part 2: The Dunayevskaya-Fromm Correspondence, 19591978
5 | The Early Letters: On Fromms Marxs Concept of Man and His Socialist Humanism Symposium |
6 | Dialogue on Marcuse, on Existentialism, and on Socialist Humanism in Eastern Europe |
7 | On Hegel, Marxism, and the Frankfurt School in the Period of Dunayevskayas Philosophy and Revolution |
8 | The Final Letters: On Critical Theory and on Rosa Luxemburg, Gender, and Revolution |
Appendix
Index
About the Authors
Editors Note
Copies of all of the letters of Raya Dunayevskaya to and from Herbert Marcuse that have been preserved are held by the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, Wayne State University Library, Detroit, Michigan. Since Dunayevskayas letters to Marcuse are mainly her carbon copies, they do not always indicate the signature, especially when it was handwritten. For this reason, we have left many of these letters without a signature.
The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection also holds copies of most of the letters of Dunayevskaya to and from Erich Fromm that have been preserved. The Erich Fromm Archive, Tbingen, Germany, holds copies of additional letters of Dunayevskaya to and from Fromm that have been preserved.
Concerning the annotation of the correspondence: Our unsigned editors source notes and (occasional) textual clarifications are in square brackets in the text of the letters. Our other editors notes are in unsigned footnotes. Dunayevskayas name is placed before her own (occasional) footnotes to her letters.
Concerning the appendix: Authors footnotes are carried over from the originals without any special indication on our part; our editors notes are in brackets, either in the text or added to footnotes.
A few of our editors notes have been adapted from Dunayevskaya, The Power of Negativity , edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002), where several of Dunayevskayas letters to Marcuse and Fromm were first published.
Acknowledgments
We thank Olga Domanski and Robert French of the Raya Dunayevskaya Memorial Fund, Chicago, for permission to publish Dunayevskayas letters to Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm, as well as Dunayevskayas essays on Marcuse and Fromm contained in the appendix to this volume.
The letters of Herbert Marcuse to Raya Dunayevskaya are published here with the permission of the Literary Estate of Herbert Marcuse, Peter Marcuse, Executor. We also thank Peter Marcuse for permission to reprint Herbert Marcuses preface to Dunayevskayas Marxism and Freedom. Supplementary material from previously unpublished work of Herbert Marcuse, much now in the Archives of the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, has been and will be published by Routledge Publishers, England, in a six-volume series edited by Douglas Kellner and in a German series edited by Peter-Erwin Jansen published by zu Klampen Verlag, Germany. All rights to further publication are retained by the Estate.
We thank Rainer Funk, Literary Executor of Erich Fromm, for his assistance in providing access to Fromms letters to Raya Dunayevskaya, to Dunayevskayas handwritten letters to Fromm, and to background information and critical comments helpful to our edition. We have summarized rather than published Fromms letters to Dunayevskaya because Fromms letters are not available for publication at this time. We also thank Funk for permission to publish the English version of Fromms Foreword to Dunayevskayas Philosophy and Revolution ; the Fromm Estate, Tbingen, Germany, holds copyright to the Foreword.
We would also like to thank John Abromeit, Frieda Afary, Charles Herr, Peter Hudis, and Douglas Kellner for comments on the introduction. In addition, we are grateful to Buri Banerjee, Heather Brown, Kelly Depner, Alexander Hanna, Brian Lovato, John Worden, and Mir Yarfitz for research assistance at various stages of this project. We would also like to thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), which funded Andersons travel to Germany in 1994 to consult the papers of Erich Fromm in Tbingen and those of Herbert Marcuse in Frankfurt.