Articles tagged “Silva; Luis Ignacio da (Lula)”

Editors: Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell

The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory is published by Lexington Books (April 12, 2012)

This book presents for the first time the correspondence during the years 1954 to 1978 between the Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-87) and two other noted thinkers, the Hegelian Marxist philosopher and social theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) and the psychologist and social critic Erich Fromm (1900-80), both of the latter members of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.

Authors: David Black and Chris Ford.

Newly published by Unkant, with a foreword by John McDonnell MP, appendices include Julian Harney’s The Tremendous Uprising and Edward Aveling’s memoir, George Julian Harney: A Straggler of 1848. Illustrated throughout.

“… in most histories of the British Labour movement the story of the Chartists has focused on the large-scale mobilisations of petitioners, the development of mass-circulation radical newspapers for working people and the promulgation of the tactic of the general strike, the ‘sacred month’ or ‘big holiday’. The Newport Uprising and other attempts to use physical, as opposed to moral force have been, if not hidden from history, then at least pretty heavily disguised.

Speaker: Woody Nance, political activist; Greg Burris, radical film critic; and Mansoor M, Iranian cultural worker
Date: Saturday, June 2, 2012
Time: 2:00 – 4:30 PM
Venue: Community Room A, Westside Pavilion, Los Angeles

Sponsor: West Coast Marxist-Humanists, an affiliate of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization