RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA

MARXISM AND FREEDOM: FROM 1776 UNTIL TODAY

1958

First published: 1958
Sources: Chapters 5-8 from the pamphlet Marx's Capital and Today's Global Crisis, News & Letters, London, 1978.
Digitalisation, proof-reading & html markup: Chris Gilligan, August/September 2024
Copyright: Reproduced here by kind permission of the Raya Dunayevskaya Memorial Fund

Introductions

PART I: FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY: 1776 TO 1848

1: The Age of Revolutions: Industrial, Social-Political, Intellectual

2: Classical Political Economy, the Revolts of the Workers, and the Utopian Socialists

3: A New Humanism: Marx's Early Economic-Philosophic Writings

PART II: WORKER AND INTELLECTUAL AT A TURNING POINT IN HISTORY: 1848-1861

4: Worker, Intellectual, and the State

PART III: MARXISM: THE UNITY OF THEORY AND PRACTICE

5: The Impact of the Civil War on the Struture of Capital

6: The Paris Commune Illuminates and Deepens the Content of Capital

7: The Humanism and Dialectic of Capital, Volume I, 1867-1887

8: The Logic and Scope of Capital, Volumes II and III

ORGANIZATIONAL INTERLUDE

9: The Second International: 1889 to 1914

PART IV: WORLD WAR I AND THE GREAT DIVIDE IN MARXISM

10: Worker, Intellectual, and the State

11: Forms of Organization: the Relationship of the Spontaneous Self-Organization of the Proletariat to the "Vanguard Party"

12: What Happens After?

PART V: THE PROBLEM OF OUR AGE: STATE CAPITALISM VERSUS FREEDOM

13: Russian State Capitalism vs. Workers' Revolt

14: Stalin

15: The Beginning of the End of Russian Totalitarianism

16: Automation and the New Humanism

APPENDICIES: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF MARX AND LENIN

Appendix A: Marx: Private Property and Communism

Marx: Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic

Appendix B: Lenin: Hegel's Science of Logic