Raya Dunayevskaya | |
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| Born | Raya Shpigel May 1, 1910 |
| Died | June 9, 1987 (aged 77) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Western Marxism, Marxist humanism, Hegelian Marxism, Marxist feminism |
Main interests | Social theory, social revolution, social movements, dialectical philosophy, Marxist praxis, women's liberation |
Notable ideas | State capitalism, movement from practice that is itself a form of theory, absolute negativity as new beginning |
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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. At one time Leon Trotsky's secretary, she later split with him and ultimately founded the organization News and Letters Committees and was its leader until her death.[5]
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- ^ Anderson, Kevin B. (2010). Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies. University of Chicago Press. p. viii.
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- ^ "A libertarian Marxist tendency map". libcom.org. libcom. 27 October 2005. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- ^ "Raya Dunayevskaya Is Dead; Author Was Aide to Trotsky". The New York Times. June 13, 1987.