Raya dunayevskaya biography of albert

Raya Dunayevskaya founded Marxist-Humanism in the United States. During a lifetime in the Marxist movement, she developed a revolutionary body of ideas: the theory of state-capitalism; the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism as rooted in the U.S.

in labor, the Black dimension and women&#;s liberation; the global concept of the inseparability of philosophy and revolution as the dialectics of liberation. These concepts have been developed in three major works: Marxism and Freedom (published in ); Philosophy and Revolution (published in ); and Rosa Luxemburg, Women&#;s Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution (published in ).

Born in Russia, she was brought to the U.S.

as a child. She became Russian Secretary to Leon Trotsky in exile in Mexico in , during the period of the Moscow Trials and the Dewey Commission of inquiry into the charges made against Trotsky. At the outbreak of World War II, she broke with Trotsky in opposition to his defense of Russia as