Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation

Raya Dunayevskaya is one of the twentieth century�s great but underappreciated Marxist and feminist thinkers. Her unique philosophy and practice of Marxist-Humanism�as well as her grasp of Hegelian dialectics and the deep humanism that informs Marx�s thought�has much to teach us today. From her account of state capitalism (part of her socio-economic critique of Stalinism, fascism, and the welfare state), to her writings on Rosa Luxemburg, Black and women�s liberation, and labor, we are offered indispensable resources for navigating the perils of sexism, racism, capitalism, and authoritarianism. This collection of essays, from a diverse group of writers, brings to life Dunayevskaya�s important contributions. Revisiting her rich legacy, the contributors to this volume engage with her resolute Marxist-Humanist focus and her penetrating dialectics of liberation that is connected to Black, labor, and women�s liberation and to struggles over alienation and exploitation the world over. Dunayevskaya�s Marxist-Humanism is recovered for the twenty-first century and turned, as it was with Dunayevskaya herself, to face the multiple alienations and de-humanizations of social life.