January 27, 1983

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.- ~:1~~8.-S.e _.n·o~~. that 1 _ }.nste.ad. t?f · a_ddl;.-~s.sing,_·i,ou, as :>ear SiS-• " ',_- • • •• ·- .,. • • - • '. ·- 1 .• - '\ • , • -- - ., • ' " • • -- -." '

t~~s, --~-~ich_. i~_ :~~e-_._us~al·.·w~:y_.·-;1: anLmoSt_ (j.elibcii:ateiy adcJi:oess~ng -YQ!J.~-a~--'?o~r~d~~--~ -· --_ ~h~--- ;~a~6n···fs: i~k-~~i·s~~- ~~~t d~iib~~ate ,_:_ . i-t.: is.'_.~~-~ ·_·: -st~·e_Ss~--~)}~t-~zlo_w--.-tha:·t·-:w~_-;'~~'-"ha,;·~· -~- _;~il~~. of ::r.civo~~t·i~~: .. -:.~; -~~ic~ · ~a.S_ clima;;ed;\~ith·:_·th~- 'f~~~~: ~~~ri"d ·\·~~~~n· s ·-.Libe;~·tion;" .so- th~t' -R~-sa :Lu- ·

_kem~ur_f!'i''(;6men '_~:-Libei-atiOn--:~d t;;arx·, s"PhilosOphy of' ReVo~ution i'S _a. ·.-~_most,_,"in-sepai"-a.ble·:-and inoSt··unique_.-.uni tV·---- 'arid· have: ·:that··-Trilogy ... this

- yea.J:. ·wheri -tt:-mOre·:·th8.n .iu.St ·~coiricideS"··with-;the r::arX.·Ce?tenarV,.: ·-it

-~-i_;3_:~_hi~h:;iiine.·_,:td~ :te.s:t. -tha,~: _wordr.: RzvoLUTiqr~~"RY,-. ·.wheri ·.the -sub_jecj;,~is ... . ~~OmE?rii s .. ·L~b£:~atiOn •. ThB.t --i·s ·tO -· 6ay.-· "liberation11 is not merely =a· l qUesifiOn -of ;'~dress-" {the·~~ ·are_--me3nY .,;_wr~"~en' s:·orFri'nizat'ions~- ·aS_ auxi~-­liSr~eS' or-o·therwiSe,· -:\f;here.--friat.can be dealt-- with;- if You:.·haVe-r"tinie

f·o:r--such. matters)~:- It is- not- even· "culture."- Al-thou("h-\that·- def~n..: itel~ -is ~historic·,._ is- ~f. ·the :e-Ssence when ~orie'.s.:-;J .. if"estory· (history or hei-story} is:.very·neal:-lY 0~ the-leVel :of reV~lution _,.;. ___ for· in =--

. ma'ity ._fu~d-aniental' respects,' 'it ,·i's,. indried, --an anticipati0l_1 of' that'-­revo~Uti,On) : ..;.;_: _·_neve~thele sSt ·CU.l ture ,---like __ nhilosophy I • still remains

wtthin,·:th6.'cla'ss socie~ :· RevOlution, --~and·-re·volut.io-n 'alcne,-•.can-:up..;.. . . . ro_o·t·:the ··to_iali ty ·of sOCi~ty_ :aS is. 'r-'oihinp. else .can-.- It: is_:"·;IJre_~ise-lY -b-ecause tha·t i-s so that--i{·is,--that'~rid--that- alone ·which Spells·:out.

o~ uniqueness' our- insi~te!:'ce that a sUccessful revolution is -fil~. separable ·from a P,hilo_sophy _o_f _l"'evcltJ.ttoii as_ much as it is insepar-

-:abie fro~·:the"·tOl-ces vof reV~iutfon ·as Rea·son. . .• .-.----- ·--. r._- --~--· -------·

~oW_-,.th~il~, bOth ·11 Have Th~b,- w.i11 Tra,;el"-, ·and-~-the ·~a­tionai Tour- :_e~p·e·Cially ·are roote·d -.in that· -~-ilog:Y- of _H:e~()iuti'ciri!. ~d it i~ ··hif-h· ii;e .tO ask 'yo\irSeivE{s ··qties~ioilS. of 'ore-atliz_a.~i'oti· ·a:i1d why--B.utonolnY-'doe~ n~t rnean-iooscnes·s",. "V~·rd·,'-·bere.ft Of se~~~tis,· di .. a:

lect-ical thou{!'ht. Th~re.fere,~ 'a~sk yo-urse ... lV~s,_ 'h-haLiz'LP.e ·a:£ oi-P.ani'z8:­

tion.ud~- y_Qjl -~i_i~~9-~g_g_J..9:t!£.- t~?- Ask Yourse-lf,· 'eqlially· seriou.slyt .

H8.sii' 't hiStory ·prOV2a, With t·he· collapSe cif th"·e' Second :i:nternatiorl8.1 -(and eenuine~ .reVolutiOnarY KarxistR belonred to it, not only "re~ : ~-ft~rmists much less __ betrayers, al thoupJi_ it .is .the latter .. that never­th~les~ irnpar.t~d.- ih~i.~: retropr~ssioni-~m tp- the ~lt61~), that,, not·

- .~ ___ .,. ' . _"·. ' ' - - ' .. . ·-- - '- ·-- . . - ' ' - .. '. ha·w:""iJ?-8:: liatsnCd ,to t:e.rx' s total- philo_ so ph~.' of -r~v~lution. ~-~ f"~~.~l1:d

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. also fo~ orgB.!lization,· ·the _be~rayal was lnevitable,-·:.in9scaPable, deadly?.

·-·~ ·\\e:-must· tinde!"''=llo · circumstEii1ce·S- stai~t ·thl~::;:tlatioiial to.ur, . -"thr s -ile{v··: ~fu-Wid -__ ;v_hich ___ --Pr~cedc~ . n·othi~g :~h6'rt: -o;{ a· Coilsti tutioll~l:::·c~h-' -.· -. V~nti6n~- :~bY-:cothPZ.OMici~·t:. ,attitUdeS t~ ~r .. i~t--x•·s: __ ·itl3rxiS~ -_.:.-~thit .. ·is, ·. -~ . ::biar~i~t~Hwnalii~m:.-_:.:::_: ·JUs~ ~.tO ~ gai~~:-an B:11Ceed1~r-· ~~~~aS fOi10~i~g-~ r;· ~: ·: ;..·

;_:·-· /!:>~: .... ·. ··· .. '->-:--· ·-~' :_,·en· ·:·i-_ ;::.-.t. ··-.;._· .•. :~--

,:; :=- _: . ·.·:. :: ~; · · ~· ~:~--~- :.gt~. -~_:i:_Y~: .. ~Y.o.~_· -. ~~~t -__ tv.'9 ~.xamPl~ s -~:tCJ·_·--~h_ow .~Y9_,u_-:_wby ~-:_~-~-:~a~~-~-'·-ha~dly · el8;te·d~·:·'thoug~.- .i t;.is -.w?.meri' .who. have had_ the i...-1~ti_al -gre~t~-Z.e-

-· ·,spon~.e -_.t?--'_m~etings arou11:d ::_ther:new.-boO¥;~- .. _The. _:rirat~.i-~~-:tli~ .:f§l:~ __ :t; ___ tha_t ·RoSa .-Luxe~.lr.e, · ~'.'o~e~·;·~·--Lib~-~~-ti~~- a~d --~~;~~·;_·s-:P~fi.~so-Dhy, of ·ReVolutiorl

i·s, the .. :f'irst_.\-i~rk ever· to .have b~_ought ~ut the iemini·f:Jt·dirilenSion.:·i~· . ... Luxemburg,_ ·:revolUtionarY ·.theorist: ahd ... activist·-- a~d .. the creaSori ·it ha.lf~e_xcuse·d Luxernbtirp.-for' not re.vealinp- her ·.:femiriiSt_-dime~sion _ _is-~

_becauSe.; it ~iS-.,;P: to_.·o~ .age_,·to -have- saen more·_'than she :herself·: saw_ ..

because --she· was-:art oril-!inal •.. :.:--.~ Being :.an--_original·. ~~_!ll)t~---~!_i-~t;;_~he -had no worries -tha:tfhcr- EEo was :in :exile or tha~-·she--.felt-:~lienated. If­you'H :forglve,me,_ior ·bO.,il)€' .to. culi;ure .a.t)d··a:greei.ng ':'ith that male'

.-:chauvinist ·:o,H.-Lawr-en·ca.,_ le·t ·ni11 -POint--.out thai;.- aS-.~- ·Ereat · ai:tist· he knew: whe~~?"!-_. ·_he :.~poke .:w~en. he ,sal:4 .. that __ unle ss·.~wri ting .in _ some __ ·.wa:Y.: esCapes;_i ts author,. it really isni_t beautiful.· That .-_concept C?f-

. Original is ct)"le,·.second, eXa!nple. · Let'.s. !'.O ,oin.to both examples a bit' more.:-·· . , ... . .. ,: ·: ·:· .

•• ,._ • - -- -- - ·.-.-. -- j-• _,,

Being ·an: ·or-igi-na'"l-:' Lu~en~b-u~g._ s'_ life.:.stYle·.:sur.~i:'F'ftS.s·~:du:... ferent f:rom all other· ~o;m~·~,:~ in. aitd ou-t ·o:f .. the m~~~inent' •. ---B~-f~p.- ~~rl:~-o~igina~_ •. s,he felt that ~h~ugh_ she __ in_no fun~ament,a_l ~ay disagreed wi,tl\ ,Jo.giches. She· .could -b~ he"~~eii onlY bY sepa:r·ating .:from him• ... Be{rig · 8.n _origil1~i, Sh:e, :in .. the ve~;·_-.rn.ids.t and ~t the he.iiht ·of_ anti~

__ waf~·, ~~ti ~-i ty ~and: ~~·v_Q +U.ti9~-~y _-;~~sPe~-ti ',e._: :--s~4~~~iY __ ~a.'iled~. upon :-_ .

__ Pent~~~~le_a_, ~-ir:st 1 ~o_ qe.fe~~ _the, Acp~~~es: ... i_ri_. __ t.~-~ German Social D~~~­cracy; and :then .dec.ided that they really weren't worthy of Acl).illes' fat~• the GSD h~d a damned. sight ~ore vulf!e~·~ble pli'ces than th~ir·. · heels.

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_ Thci ·wrL O:f today that faiiecr to. pay_ att"erltion ·to LuxefiibUrg and in thfiir narrow..;mihdedriess f·Ri.led tO' "see·: h~i .. ··femil1ist ·dimenBiori b~Ca.Use they diaree:arded' he;._ J:.f!volu.ti~n:S:r'y na·ture·, lif'e a·na thoUght)

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actu:.iUy .,~>:-_oved i;h~ ... ()pJ;>o <l.!-j;~, .tn.; ~YP.ry, oppo_si te .. o:L what. they, thtoligl>t .• ,c,.>.;··"~ ;;·-.·c:···:;:. Were·:.brl.rig'lng- oUt··aa new -- woman, ·wCman~ · \'iOI'IIAN. .And the

·-- ', --... - . . pr~o.t' need.· not·. lie' in Rosa Luxembui-p bUt. is aS •Jun'erican as apple

pie _(or-- __ whate __ Ver y~U think i~- illdi~-enous) :-:- ·namelY, M~garet F~l~er:~ , :As for_ t_}l_9--.Bi·~~-~::-dihiti~~;ion, -_~c-ademia- aild· __ NQI~t; :_have yet·~- to -_have:- th8 . ~l·ighte_S·t··_Pe:rc;;ptiC?n .··of:--;;~~1_·-_th~orY -is, an_d·' wh:v 'soioUZ.ner-_ Truth '-s _

~c.~~iing·:-,'~o-ugia-s.~-. -i~ ~h.~~t~_!flinae:d ~i,·_ .. -~n-d ·-n_~rni!Jg~- .h~~sel!'~~nc t -:~-'-_ . .,rc_i:Ci--::>-: ... ·• ..•.• ., •. ·c··.,•.:·;; ::•···"•:•••·•·· -: .. ··. h~~---but·'~-~ --~hi-lo'~ophy :~nti tleS.-her- to·_ b_eing _studied a:s-_a ·ihe_6r_et~-

·. ' . ' . . •'• - - . --· ,. ' . . -~-~~al,l~_:·-~- -·::A~o-~~-:-ali~ ·-'seSi_n~--~,_hOw, ft __ i_s_. thQt:~~;_-~a_sses··:_in -m6.~ioni1 :_:d_o-:_make·

-:- r_~yo_iUtiaJis: :that ··a:··_.i,rea t :_- -~p~rs_o:O~lrt-y __ "--.:~imply- ·canz1ci_t _:ha!3 ·--: ~--~Caiu3d_~ ~hein~ --.... J~st ~co~_Sfd·e~_:·T~t:Y.ana r\:~~·riova ~d- col:':trast her_.~i.~her-:t~ the IWD_.: ~n 191? that:·topPl:ed the·· ~e-~_t_urie·s~old Tsarism, or_._to -the -'faCt :that Pre:Se·_~tl;Y- she -t3.l.ks o:f rlarXism bttt sticks to r'ID.w. ·aru1: .·other_ s~ch organi:i8.tions. ~- -to·· helP her'OVerthrow- Russian sta~e-cS:pi talism? ReallY???! ! !

Please 1 .pleaSe r please -- call a :meeting--- nOt for .-f?:he "masses .. ·but st~ictly .. and. only :for the few o:( you to t'ake a- Second;

·---l~Ok 8.t._-.the.-·new:·book,". limited t-o _the_ sinele question ·of. what. it is

th3.t you. -s~6uld-:wan't _"!=o do·; ~irst, tO_ ·p~epare ~~~ f'Oi-_ ·_th'e toUr~ an~ se'cOnd,,--·to i'oilciw-thi:-oueh righ~ up_ -~9- the' '-.CollftittitiOna~- cO!J,­

--. -Vi:lntio.~· •.

Yours,

RAYA

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·-If :i · 8.t· yeoterdaY' s~.mee~riu:;:~-~r_: surnris-€-d. Yoil<by ·showi!lf";: . ·_·._(::-:

such -int~r·est- in,_: __ th_~ .. _.qu!3ati·ori',~th.~t-~--had_: -be~n_: .put:>-:t;o_<·~~-e_';:~·~Yo~~-~-· s_:_~i~--~\-)\:::;, ·.···::·:" -· ~-~::c:_~l~~-;,-~'!-.~~~-~-~~7- __ .f.{~m_b~-:rs- :.by --~_ 1 .. ba~1~-=~~m-~-~-~,;-~)'R.u~:::.;~ll_i9h./,~~~-~-~:--;,:~?~:Z.:e,_~~-;;~~:~:~;-­

·:the"trU:th iS -that~---·far from cOrlsideri~]F s~~h--q;;e~t-iOn·s.ro'ino;,-~·r·;~;;n-~· .. s._i_de~_--.th_~m~"·s.~--~ e_-~·sen~_iai:'that~ I; ~~---a~tlialiy_ ·-f;_Oi.f)p:~ tO.-_-.serld;·a:~-c_~·py _.of: ___ _

th~s~- ~e.tter' t~·.:. the . .-loC~ls.·.:: :The r~ason, i-<?~·;:mY~ Y;e.f:.y Oea~iy~>n~:K_in·p. a:=;·. __ . . ul-iive·rsai-__ c~rt lot· .. ~his .. is that li t-tl_e word- I n-eVer :st0p?·r~p-t1a~inp:s:.: dialeCti'C.

· ----1'-,ethodo·lop-:Ji; . fOe_thOdoloF;'; methodolon-'. BecauSe B.s-- f·~arx.:. ..

_ist-liumaniBts· we- are S.l.wnys -stressin.a- the· qui.ntessen·tiB.l;':' so_ that·· .. i'~i'a~·e.ct.ics 11:· is :.aiWa~;s<follc{·tCd~··by '.".of.~ liberittiotJ, u (or·_·".of, ;cVolu-:: ·

tion" _o·r_· ... unat:i..onal: -self~d~te:dTlina.tion", · ai1d- sO- forth· and:. se; fo%-'~hJ ;·· we maY:··-farp-et · tl1a·t: dial-ecti.c metho-dol6-F-"y ~nplieS·. to- ·all ·:_thing-s, ·and: not jus·t· .. _-·~hat \Ue' 'cOnsider- qu.intccsanti~l.·o-- - 1·,'i thou"t-_.it,· .. th.crc .:is nO>.:.;:,

wa.v~ · -tn ah · arralyais ·of any topic,- slriall- ·or·; ·i~rFe-,.• that. we->·.c~ .trac_~:--,_, · B- -proc·ess o·f deVeicnrrient-'seri-ouslv ·enouP."h->tO know .the._:movement.; · __ ·.No:t·· kn_owi"nf':'-th-e~ ni'av·o~en~~;.: whethe:r··-in .,~h~_::sU~ jec.ti ve. oi- ·.object.i:ve·. sphep~·, -~·. tn~·re;_i:s·.:'na·· Way· to':Pe;i'cei-\~~: the--direction~- Al~o -lackinf', theJ1';; ._i_B_''

i ts~-~t_ru:e ·Orir-inr-· _ _. :foi-t ·even' tt· one --knows .-.the- u·facts, ''-'one. Wotild st~ll ·need :to"'··-kndw·-'the diS.lcc-tic--of its'·evolutien ·.tha."t i-s to ·say,· its .

. ·.·· .. · ... -c. . .. .... ., .

-~fake auch; ._simpl_e __ quest~o.n~,!~S}"What b,o_oks q~n.I ~~a~ o~ _ _ wa~en~ s_ -~~b~rat$.0~:? -~here .. are a lcr~. anq .. _;r_ don.~ t· w!'l~t. to waste --~Y­t~me • '!'{here can I. obtain the type of book thPt would show me the o~ pO-~ite ··p~int ~f·.-vi.ew? \~·hen .. shouid :I read ~these? Toyether ~ith those . _, ~ . ' .

assir-ned -~~~---· t~e.o·~_lriss, o;- befOre, a·r- after? ·.And Who' is the ·mast' ~xc~ ti;;P. _writer· on _\-.'!~?"

·That no one .thou{"ht about so simple a matter .. as lookinff

at the footnotes in _noea,_~-u:x_!"!mJrl-\~?: 1 .. W_oJ!len~-~.·:J"~}:l~e~?,t.~o.n _~nd, __ M.ax.:_~ FhiJ..9·s·o·P.hY~_..QJ ... J!~X9.1.4.1:.~91J.• which ~re a.imost a.~ er;sential as the text--­itself, ·and that no one thoupht of. lookinp at· the bibliography -­which· is ···d-ivided in Such~ a wa~ as to relate various 'Joolta to_ di:ffer­ent :thBor·t=-'"'icii'ana·,:- :-t;o -dif f e:rent- _-topics. (from Black::d.imension to

li.arx '.s philosophy), and to different historic periods ( separatinp.

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~he bO~·ks ort ·the· ·e~;_l~ ':·~ ~~d" those- on tpday_•_s m·ovem~~tf< . .;."· l-eveiiia

a·--s~1f-Cpnsciousne_ss .2bout what _the :I19Vi book· tx-ul~'-c··is •... - (I'm .u~in,ct .. r­n·s.elf-consciousl1ess11 not in the d-i~le·c-tic;l ~~,;~e. but··-in·· the oi:-din-·.- . ary sense ·of_ ~ ·blush,')': If 0'. instead·;' there 'h~.d·' been··such ;self~conC-

. -·.:·_.<f_id~nce_,- e.?~Ut :_ ~0_ .. ...,; ?.~~rat_! :~he>~o~k >thri~_,_ ... wer_e-;~Dr'?~C?-~?-~_~!;:-to:. _s~~Y~- ~~~~ ._-/ ·;_ ':~·.<>>•>'''' ""''d"'"'h'''';t··. relB.t9d ~- :::vei"~- . C"on.cr-e t~l ,/:_:.rei f.. ~t~ d -~ ::-:-tG·<:" .thE> -·preC-iSe :~-sUb j f'C:t ~~-­

thatc·inte~ested"theiindi:Vidual. who .had•bothere.d, to~attend.-a'.meeting,,_•-· ~r:-~_'ri_Lt no·:'_~att~r:j~ovl.~inf·o~:ma·L ~..; ;:therr---~h~ -c·o~Vene·rs· of-: the-._~e-e:tifl~,. ~ -.Wouid ha.Ve~:--t'aken:-··at le-ast ·lo mi1'1ute·S_· tO_-_ answer: ·the7 queS~i-~ri--: -:ibOu-t,_~_;_(·~· which .. b6-0lts:_--to_,·r~8..<!;;_ <--:.--··. -:.:_·-.. ·--::-_ ::;~t--, --:~~:·<·.:.

Allow ·me -to suf-f:'ect the kind :Of intr.oductor:v talk_:-~h~t-"'.~::·,-_ ·" wou~d:·apply. to·~·· any claeo:_on· .the new--book-,---~r-;·_ indeed, ,~y::_qne·_ of the

~ri~o~----of --re-~.o~utione __ :, Let's· assume. that :th~· cl~ss J .. S.- tO ,--b.~ ._9P-' -:. Part .J:r. ·of RLV.T,Ki'r.' rt· should. nat· be 'called" UJ?art -,II, ·•. which .would··.

give· ,th~ .. - ?-mpre:saion ·that p·a:rticiPants. _Will·· have :.misse:.;:(·,·sqn_lethi·n~_---· ·: bY :no't star"ting·w~th' Part· I, or eil-dinP. before the·_book-·ends. ·._,';!:'he,

diaJ..ectiC o:f -t~e..r-t -.II _.would-· e~si-ly.-:enouvh soon rev:eS:l_ ihit, __ :in fa_ct, £:art·- II ·pro-je_Cts · al]. three·' _T)arts· ·of_ the~-_-book.·- , '11herefq;r~-~ _,-.the~_cl~ss wouid:··be:_,Ca~_i_~-!f-,_ n;.,~-men' S -.Liberation ~-:_.Y_esterd~· ,-. -To~ay_ an4 -~.o~Or-:-:_ row";u- A·-santanc_e would ·follow that wculd show th~t it is not"only · a._:qu:eStion•:a{:_time_ aS -past, present:..-and-_.f·utur_e, but time, in.-,:the __ r .. arx-­

iali-: ·sc-n"ke-- of.· "snac-e;--for human self-deveioum~nt._" ~--Oreover.---~_it ,woul:d be a. I)'Ood ·ides. t~· follow' th~:t .with. tli.e ,!o~ quotations ,tha,t- head- . ·

.., Part II. because everyone wOuld- t}_len See the topic as- bO_th·-:comP.r_e:-:: _. -~ ·-he-nsive~ _and yet very personal and excitinp.:. includinF-Luxemburp 3.s .:::~.· gr6S.t-··re.;/Oiutia'nar·y·;···n~1-i_·-. iB.V:T_enC_e· a:s· _a gren.t- ,.;ri ter,- 'LoUiSe ltiichel

. a:s a gre·a:t ·riom~~~-ar·d~ ~tid ·-Kari--- ke.rx· B.s itlt,{ piiil~-Sophcir_-.o£ -re-volti:tion.--

~•heth~r. ·or·_- ~o~t ~.ou··_~o. i-nci;de th-ose qll~:tn~iO_~s, · ~·ou w,oliid_ .. state. tha.t you pro:P~s~- that· the -class Consist of thrCe chapt-ers ·an_d that .. yo~ co~s-idar --t·h~- ::f-OotnciteS: .. i~ ep_ch ch~.p:t~r Bo .. _impoZ:t~~_t:_..t~-~-~ •. ~ you pro:pose having two- reporters at each session' _(or. t~k~ :two week'S,

onB- for< '--the chapter; and ~one for the ·.-footnotes)-, _and "that you are pro­

uosinr-' this because ·~,ou want o-the~ _yiewa air~d. -·. ':·Thu~-1 - -.the -m.ain .re--

porter fo::- ;_the se'ver. _ pap:es of Chapter-- 6- woul.d have ~- chance to speak both on ~the past> includinF a world historic o:vent .like the r~i.rGt Woman is ·-Riffhts· :c-onvention,~ ~:riml :on cur a~e, contre.st,i_nr, -I1tBrC:U~e, and Sim._ori'e -deTieauvoir, n.s well a·s on ·the 'di:ffel·eru;e. betwee.n irldivi~u._,

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alism · (be-.-that seen in a "HoSa~~LuX9mOUt•p--: oi- 'a,~s(rjdur~er'~Trllth) and~ maS~es :lri mO'tion -(be, that·_ ·the~ ~loni~·n·,_~s- -,~~~-[. -in 'A:f.rica. ~19··29·, .. or,:' t'he- -

-_Rus-sian- Re_v·olution~- 19i7~L:··----- ~~t·. th:e-- :_s~rrie ~-t_~me·- •. a_not __ he'r--~ePO_(t_er ' - ·'-' ... ( cir r~porters) ·.would te

0lce'· ;.;p the 21 fobtnotes t;7; th;.'t chapter: Some -~~­

are·• ·.ju~-~c···fi:·:i-eiere_r)C_e-·: to·--~l'ic-th~~: _work -~-h-~. ·s~m:~~-.,~~:d :. -~ -·::Ci~-~~~ta1y-. _::·For--,~~ ·. e~~pfe ~--: Ftil'!.: ·. J / ~:hic_h- 'r·e~·erkt-'t~ ·ch~v"i:E~i'_:~-·w~;-k. ~~ rfJB.re~.e~, !'p?-_1~1~_1_ '1::-

--- - --- .- ·--- -~- ---.- •; - ·.----·-_ .. _-~·_ ....... ,, __ .. ·:~~-- .. -,. ___ .• i. __ .' .--:,;,···' co·nta~ns>.):tlso·-·-a_-;<iUDta>tiOfi_~---i'r:Om·~-Fu:il~r~; S_-_·wo'Iri~n=·-fn·.-_th8-"Ninc·te·e·n.th 'ce_n-:_,,_·_.~ tury ,_:· ... ~·L_9t_ :.-it~~_. nl1·t~ 'he _88.1~:-: Wh~:;:,~vei;. .. _·th'e_~e -i;; __ -:-~ri~er_p.y"' a:r:·'i:r~-e-~tve-1.-'~etiiUS:~,: f ~h~·t;- -~-B.S-~ a:: ma~'cUifn<e'-: lriind·~ J _;._::-:~_-·._I ?"beJlieVe 3-sotri~ bodj~_ w6_uid". _b'e· :',~uir.ici~nt~ .

.-_i-y inte·re;Si:ed·: i~~ fi.i1ding: out B. boUt the··. wo~B.n.--·\vh'O ·s~id ~thiS .i~--_._the: "· ·~· ". 19th 6emtury { specifi6auy as eeriy .;., i845J to v6limt~er" to' ~epdrt on~ he_r:· bibgr8.ph~·. ··or take'' Such. _siinplf!_,-: f60t~ot~:~- as Ft'iiS~ 1-··. and' 2~ ;::,_ .. w.l}er.e:: ;the. one on--:t-:8.-t· Turner·· iS :f0110W~d -~by . the ·-on·e--an·, Bi~Ck ~~~~;~ -' Someone· would surely_ wiir.t tO· report on the ·BlaCk:--dittiebsiOn~--d~ti-1 t · :you think?

r•ow take_ the next chapter (Gh, 7), which, is ._also a brief one of .eit:ht. pae:es~ Yet you have ·:there the very --topic -:-- .t!t~ 9~~ak-up --of. L\~xerr!b~;_ ~~d. J_~·P._iche_~ -~- whi~h- Only ·b;arxist.:.H~aniS~s_,hav~·-_., -·. explai;,.~·d i.n a '-'~a·u. th~~ --ha~- ~~-- ·inter-relat~d th~ Man/W~~~. rel~tion-. " ' ..... . - ' ' ~ . - . ship (even wheTe both ·of them .t!-e revolutionarie_s __ ~d ~v.ery muc}l in, ~·-·­love -~i'th ~~-aCh -~:the:;·j ·tO" ·th~ ·histOi-io --perio'd_.:that·-~J.i:.~an ·:~ee·,.:.any

•-;>.·"-:· ---:· _,;-- "~. ---=->-"·_·: .. -..:- .... -_ " _. ........ _.- -·-~-· '.

eE!:SY al?:~wer __ i_s ---~ll).po ssible. _And __ i_t __ i_s -~beca~~e n~body __ can .. h~_ve .. a_.: quick _an~~~e-~ ·_th:at-,y_cu. ~~e ~~in __ erl ; __ :;;.'8 _ w_~-~~n·t- · i~--~~ --sh"a;p_~:co~~~onta't?i~~ ~ · with the :r"iiht_~inF. s·~ci-~i-n·~·mo~-~"ats __ Wh~ ~re_~b~traYir;r •. · At·---the 's.~e.

· time,. th~-: f ~~_tr;,~·te s- ~i v~ _us · ·r~~dirif:S ·that i·n-~l-ude e,;-~ry on~. :from K~l--:-. · lo1:_~a~ --_to· !~e-ttl, who, _ ·thouih- ~~~- ha~-- wri.'tten'· .~he ~o~t :-c6~p_rehensi ve:. _~ ..

work :o-~ .LuXe:ffib:urg_.·. i-s so- sharply ~~itiC.i_~ed t?"I?.t .one _sees tha~._: far . frcim· being an e~s:' chara9teristip to_ eXpose, male chauv:l-nism }.ie_e. very -~eep, indeed,. -~i-thii, 'ev~n th_ose who. co·n~~i~uSly .try to be "fair·, .. _

l''inally,. the ~hird and·:·;:,~st demandinr.- chapter2 (Ch,8) is On tho Unfinished tasks O:f toda_V, 'y dare Say that nobody 'can read· pa5es 100-101 on the new_yoices and not be moved by the newness that

- toda.v ··,s . ..\.Yll't. has ·broue-htl and- yet be very conscious-_ th8.t eve:n: thouc.h

Women• s Liberation-has moved from beinr- an Idea to heine a, r.-:.Jveinent, we are just -at· the very , beP.inninl's of. any.thinl'' that· could be· called

success. Indeed, I believe that whether we are talking about China,· or --sheila Rowbotha.rn, or curr~nt movement-s from· Ir~n 'to -.Portuf.al

1 the

desir_e would be tO spend~ three. meet_inf'R on just that cne cho.ptcr;. .. .

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-full .. of- anxiet:v .·to move into a study of l·.:arx himself •:-:--. Indeed, .i,t .. _ ..

:i:s ._thiS. ~hElP'ter_ thA.t:·m~kCS us···consCi~\;s .-Of· the. need to study philoso""':"'_-,. '- 'o·,'•; •.· .• ,-<·"'(• .... _ ,• • '.·',\ ,·.~ .··,· .-.. ·:· ;'. · ·_:1, .·.. , ···: ' ·•· _ ·

phy as action, __ · and, s __ 9eine; _:the S~bj_ilc_t .. as revo,luti.Onary_ :to~ce and_._.:_::_.~-'

ReB. sO_~; . 1£~:--St~d~ :t~~~1:."~~~gin8.l -~;;~·at -~-~vo.luti~n~Y- t~ _which. :~he_ ti~s:t.­._ ---par;t·::·Pi ·; th~---~:-~i6-~~:--i~=:'d~~~~e:d~>_-~:-~~:/_· __ :_.~·!.- --~.--- -~-~--~----·- -•• • ·- ·-·" __ :· _;· -~ ·.::_:·' __ '_'.: ---"--~:.-·:-_-. -- · ~~----:~---~- ·-

·-_ · · - -:.·~- ·.' :·· -~-- '.:~---~ .' -_:·.;: ___ .: -:·:····: -~- ·.~. ",~. ~; r-.:~_-:,· ,~~ •• :_f~f, .. ~h~, ~-~:~.:~ri~:te s·~:~_ .~lhich. ~egi?. \~~ t!l_;: :~' . : __ ~t~-~- fl1:~11~-:~,t_:_.,~:: Se-~al :20li-tfCs·; 8.n9- :;cotltinUe, t_hr.ough._.~a~i~a.:-~·~~n;~_s_B:~~f?:_:_~­

··veii;;;-d-·St~t~Fti/···nai':i5~--rn~·ntron:.·the. T u-~ Se---_it-~~if. ~d-- -_;ii~: ~ork~ng _ _wo-: ,,--· .. ~-"i. ·rmk\1 ~; :-fu.ld:-::·~:h~-~~WQ~_id · ~an,·t" _to_·-_mi·~-~-.._E.ciith-~·ThOn;as.~ ~ w~m~~,.-·I~~endia~i~~~~::~--~;~·­-~:~·_yo_~:~-~:Oiti~---'Pe~'tai~iy_: OOt -~-~ly ··,:_.~nt·~-~to ~ coVer,~--~~ch _. cne ~·-but_._ b.~·.-. sur~ to_ P9ih':t/-:tc;-_ _9~.: ow1:/' b'Ook~- .arid. p~;hle'-tl:i ~~t:· Onl; -i.~_j;nglish_- but_· in F·arsi,·_~).n~t1~:Pan~s_~-.- .ilJ ;5p~ish-~ _in:-F;e~~h,·· iri- Iial~~-, _ill.G~~man, .in order :_-_.to_- ShO-~' "'the. Wo~l~- .cih~cter:. ~-f', Mcirxi~t~Humrinisffi,. ·and espe':'"'··

cially appeal j;~ th';' 'fhir(j_ World i~. ~heir :a1vn l~guap:es. . .

'J~he ,;,ho~e pOint o~ · thi~ i~·t·t~r·· and the rea:~on f-Or send~ng it to 'the locals is 'that -i''teel that' once. we fet the 'method ofwhat a_·I,JCtrJ:C:i~t~HiutiariiSt~-~las~-~·:i.s·. -.:.::..:-ft. iS" 8iw~;s~:_a---p~~Parati~r(f~~ -~.n~ _ type·:of--- r~vo·~titiOli-; Or ariOih~r_· ...:..: :ft .. WC':iiidi1• t_,-.m-~t-te~ --'wh~·ther ~OU :·t~y-. to take .uP--the'.book··.-as·-a :Whoi~;-_ or--6-nl:~/'·:~· p-~t. ti:f th~ b~Ok,· o;; -~}ie ' wholE! t~ilo·g:y ~f- ·r~v~1~-ti:Onl-3-: ~lhla·t -:.fs ··n-~'C'e:iS'ary··:·iS ··-th~t W~ -~h,;Uid

~ . '.. • ... , ~-- • ·:- .·· •. ·.- ·. • . " ,,· - ;. • . •- , • I - : . , . > -- .. '-' ·.· . • ... ,-- ·. . . know where. we're --g:oiitf' in ci'rder to "·create. the "kind of attitude __ to objeCtiVJ.i~t;_;·arid -.·Sub' f~C'ti Vifi' Whl·C·h ._rn·e~ns·-··grasp_~ri-g ·_:o_Ur O_;{g.in~i,_· -_-. _. :._ .. fundamen-tal·~· h.istor.:tc' ·cc;n·t~ibU-tfOri's .··to'·r.~a~~;·s· -~ .. -ar~i·sd/.~o-t · -~~ :dogma,

much :-less·· "Orde·rs-~irom :8:bo~e ~" 'bu·t· B:s .-b~:irli· ~ble. ·tc;· s~~e. the:,- j:~_~; _;,,f·. finding· ~th'e'··lirik' 'to 'SO sweepil1i :a-·cantinen"t a£· thouf.-ht and of revolu~.- .. tion that, thoue-h 'it is :loo' yeru's ·old;- thet i-s where we will- find the' trail to· the 198oS; It. tS ihe-·ti:-D.ii to'- -tod·a~./ Wh~ther. th8:t be ori··

' ' ' - • • ... ·- ·' - ' ~ ,• : • _.,_ '" ' _- • ' t -.-

iiL; ·On· labor, ·on the···Ulack· dimensiOn; ·an tne· peasantry, or ~:m Y.outh a~ that ne_V1· p.enera.t·ion O:f_.revolutionnries that~·was :lucky. enoueh to

be born when o. ~ho_le new Third \.·orld erne~('ed, :full: blowri not· -from the _.head of :3eus but from -their-·ov-m mass self-co.ctivit"Y. This kind

o_f inter-_communication between· the- ages is ·able to. create such·new human relation~ that. tho_up,-h we live in the capitRlist-irnperialist

nucle~ -w~rldl we have a· viow not of· extinction but of ·the future that. is ··in ~he present.·;

Yours, 'RAYA '7817

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FOOTNOTESc

1. _unfortunatelY; :·.th~·· title- Of:. Chevieny • s:-book in this f·ootnote -.do_es~n~tc_, includ.a-:::-thc,_llitllie .:_of._.I~4arp.aret Fuller, since we followed .the idiocies_ oL· the publfSh9'r 1 s i-ules which. aO_ no-c_require sub­'ti tle·s- -in ~oOtriotes, and·..:-because,·-·again.·unf6rtunatelyJ .Chevigny -included-7F·uller' s·:·name:· as·-:a· ·sUbti tlE!e· It-·- is· c&rrectly<l.isted~.in the -!libliography; · -, >: · ·

2. ~--'Wis-h· . .-1- couid. -transmit· to ·-_:every· r~a:i·e;--:-.· ~~~ther/ membe'i·"or.--not, j1l:s~: how __ ·. demA.nditli!;:'that-: chap:t_er i·s, .- arid:·:tha;t ':by ---'~_d"emand~ng~:ol:. m_e~ the· 1ndividua1 responsibilitY><:for working •outci\':arx' s: ph;J:losophy. of :r:-evolution,; in_- such. comprehensive- and concrete ·-terms ·on .th~ .. ·hi~tory_ · and devel.opment of Women'-s .Liberation that future generaiaons could· 'say, .. _uQh 1 that • s 'where thev--· should -have·- started·." · ·

. ' ·' :· ' - ' - .. _ ' ·;' -·-' .. J • i ·-dOh =_t me-an that· the 110verview" --~f. p~t .,:II ·i·s- wha:t :llolds ·fo_F.

:all< three b_ooks. ·I:. do mean·- that- the· metho_dology, ·which'; allowed ~e to ·present·all_ of Part·I-:in Ma.rxism,a.nd-;--Freedom as·, the nr,;ovement from.·¥'7'ra:ctice; .. was· due _f'irst~,to the -new .un~ versal--:-that .I-., ab-,-; · :::tracted ----fi'oin .-the'-~-a:c--eUai ':m6vement-~f'fom·'practice -which· made ._me·'see that ,that \'las exactly what !;iarx did regarding_ such simple matters as the- weavers' strike, and· that theref·ore it also applied to periods .long- be:fore -~844 .. :For- -example, :.this-,being -an .American book,'·..:it.-was-·impor.tant.to 'not;e--that the ;ene-ines- oi'. reYolution wa~e the'· -Commi ttaes- -o:f COrrespondence.·-.·· _siilce;~I coul.dn-•.t:,,PrC?Ve,­that--·poiht :wi thout._wri ting. very nearly· a- who·le new bool~; .:I-. "simply noted it·-~only-:.as:.a --footnote,;··· (That ·is·. a ~most .. si~ni-ficant: asp~ct of' .:footnote_s,;-;_.· I:f you·_ study;'them--cB.re::fully, .. you ·-:.~an. getra wh~ff . .; ot the-=rnext:-::book. in- the writer~ s rriind.'' _._That holds_ trtJe _also;.for RL~/LJ([fr, ) :, It 'took, many years .. be:fora Frank virote the • pamphlet, · .America: s l''irst Unfinished RevoJ.utiOn·t ,. which developed-.~ the ques­tion __ of· the Gommi ttees of Correspondence ..

As ·to~~--Phii6.S6'T.,h\,. anfi· .ReV:~l'titi<)n:; -_it'S deVe'lbp_~eilt · b~g~-- with the Hee;elian dialectic '"in and l:~or itself·~~"_ (Ch. J.} and then _.traced its. recreation· in Uarx (Ch. 2), followed. by :what· it became: i~' Lenir1t _as_--the Great.Divide<_in Marxism (Ch.J). PhilosophY and Revolu-tion'·. 'tlY the·_ ·end~_ c.Ould Sh'ow the 'dialectic's _continu_ing, Jj~votal_, 11 11at"ure~~. by· .. -poin:~ing ':to. -,.Fciilon• s_ recx:eation 'of i ~'.for ill';UT!~natine,_, the. revo lutioriarY . oppoS~ tiori to· co'lonialism";.: :It) __ add::. t~on.<_to s;tudy ing _the footnotes_ in .?&R 1 please read _car.~_fu_lly the ne\'1 Introduction-to the 1982 edition,. and iiee. how .I answered. the academic Hegelian who accused me of ncreating':; an .. u~cha~_ned· dialectic_. Then see how I used the phrase for the organ~zat~on in my Summation at the Expand.;d REB on Jan. 1, 198),.

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