Raya Dunayevskaya

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. --Adrienne Rich, ""Raya Dunayevskaya's Marx"

Dunayevskaya's book goes beyond the previous interpretations. It shows not only that Marxian economics and politics are throughout philosophy, but that the latter is from the beginnings economics and politics --Herbert Marcuse, Preface to Marxism and Freedom

[Dunayevskaya] is permeated by the conviction that socialism and freedom are indivisible united, and can only exist together. She is a radical Humanist who deeply believes that the betterment of the welfare of all humanity can be achieved without the loss of individual freedom, through a new Humanism. --Erich Fromm, Foreword to Philosophy and Revolution