Editorial Note and Acknowledgements
Editorial Note
All footnotes outside the introduction, besides simple citations, are by Dunayevskaya unless otherwise noted. Within the text of some documents the following abbreviations are used for works by Marx and Dunayevskaya:
MCIK = Capital, Vol. I, Kerr edition
MCIIK = Capital, Vol. II, Kerr edition
MCIIIK = Capital, Vol. III, Kerr edition
MCIP = Capital, Vol. I, Penguin edition
MCIIP = Capital, Vol. II, Penguin edition
MCIIIP = Capital, Vol. III, Penguin edition
MECW x, p. y = Marx and Engels, Collected Works, Vol. x, p. y
RDC, p. x = The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection and Supplement to the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, microfilm page number x.
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank the Raya Dunayevskaya Memorial Fund for giving permission to publish documents from the Raya Dunayevskaya CollectionâMarxist-Humanism: A Half Century of Its World Development and its Supplement, the most complete collection of Dunayevskayaâs writings. The entire Collection (except for audiotapes, videotapes, and books with marginalia), the Supplement, and Guides to the Collection and Supplement are on the Internet at www.rayadunayevskaya.org. Originals are on deposit at Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Detroit, Michigan.
We thank Eugene Gogol, Terry Moon, Bob McGuire, Fred Mecklenburg, Olga Domanski, Nigel Gibson, Mary Jo Grey, Malcolm Campbell, Ron Kelch, Susan van Gelder Stellar, Daniel Bremer, and Russell Rockwell for editorial assistance and comments on drafts. Kevin OâBrien digitized Dunayevskayaâs translations of âPrivate Property and Communismâ and âCritique of the Hegelian Dialecticâ from Marxâs Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 as published in the first edition of Marxism and Freedom. Chris Clayton and Damon Maxwell transcribed for the Marxists Internet Archive Chapter 3, originally titled âMarxâs Humanism Today,â and Chapter 26, originally titled âNegro Intellectuals in Dilemma,â respectively.
We wish to thank News and Letters Committees, the Marxist-Humanist organization co-founded by Dunayevskaya and the publisher of News & Letters, without which this book would not have been possible. Some chapters were originally published in whole or in part in News & Letters (www.newsandletters.org), under Dunayevskayaâs guidance. Some were excerpted in News & Letters after her death.