Adrienne Rich

Raya Dunayevskaya: Philosopher of Marxist-Humanism

Philosophy

“On Raya Dunayevskaya . . . The first thing to strike a reader, ranging through Dunayevskaya's books, is the vitality, combativeness, relish, impatience of her voice. Hers is not the prose of a disembodied intellectual. She argues; she challenges; she urges on; she expostulates; her essays have the spontaneity of an extemporaneous speech or of a notebook--you can hear her thinking aloud. . . . Raya Dunayevskaya caught fire from Marx, met it with her own fire, brought to the events of her lifetime a revitalized, refocused Marxism. . . . She's trying to think, and write, the revolution in the revolution.”