Dunayevskaya

[Peoples' War]

I'm not too familiar with her, but I understand she is opposed to the idea of a vanguard party. I also have an understanding, somewhat, of her/CLR James' theory of State Capitalism in Russia.

Basically, I want to know more about her without having to scour her archive.

If any comrades have knowledge, critiques, etc. on her I'd like to hear them.

[theblackmask]

News and Letters Committees hands out newspapers and tries to butt into every struggle just like all those other Leninist organizations that support the idea of a vanguard party. If Dunayevskaya was opposed to a vanguard party, the practice of the organization she founded does little to uphold that.

On the plus side, Dunayevskaya pretty much called the emergence of the Black Panthers by about 3 years in an essay "Black Masses as Vanguard".

[SonofRage]

Black Masses as Vanguard is short but excellent. Her work Marxism and Freedom is also very good as is her work on Rosa Luxemberg although she has too much of a soft spot for Lenin for my tastes.

Paul Mattick's critique is the only one I'm familiar with: http://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1958/dunayevskaya.htm

If I recall correctly, Althusser was not a fan but I have not fully studied his critique.

-SoR