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Marxist-Humanist Initiative

January 6, 2020 by MHI

Editorial: Stop Trump’s Self-interested Drive to War Against Iran—and Against the American People

September 27, 2019 by MHI

New Podcast Series—Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast

July 10, 2019 by MHI

Video: MHI Panels at Left Forum Conference—Confronting Right & “Left” Authoritarianism, Confronting Trumpism

June 15, 2019 by MHI

Marxist-Humanist Panels at 2019 Left Forum Conference in NYC

April 19, 2019 by MHI

Video: MHI Panel at Jacobin/Historical Materialism Conference: “Fighting Trumpism and Left Accommodation”

April 12, 2019 by MHI

Video: Resisting Trumpist Reaction (and Left Accommodation), Now a Seven-Part Video Series

December 17, 2018 by MHI

The Baseness of Trump’s Base: a review-essay on Sides, Tesler & Vavreck’s Identity Crisis

November 26, 2018 by MHI

Video: Radical Youth, MHI Discuss Fight against Trumpism and Left Accommodation

October 30, 2018 by MHI

Nov. 14 Public Meeting in NYC: Radical Youth, MHI to Discuss Principles to Fight Trumpism and Left Accommodation

October 12, 2018 by MHI

Audio: London Launch of MHI Perspectives Pamphlet

August 23, 2018 by MHI

MHI Statement: Legal Blows could Hamper Trump’s Rule, but “Checks and Balances” are Not Working

July 11, 2018 by MHI

Special MHI Meeting in London, 17 July: Launch of Resisting Trumpist Reaction (and Left Accommodation) pamphlet

July 2, 2018 by MHI

Video: MHI Public Meeting on “Assisting the Self-Development of #TheResistance”

May 25, 2018 by MHI

MHI to hold public meeting in NYC, June 6

May 10, 2018 by MHI

New MHI Pamphlet: Resisting Trumpist Reaction (and Left Accommodation)

March 24, 2018 by MHI

Trump + Bolton = Even More Danger to Life and Liberty

February 7, 2018 by MHI

A Reply to Harrison Fluss’s Facebook Attack on MHI

January 11, 2018 by MHI

Resisting Trumpist Reaction (and Left Accommodation): Marxist-Humanist Initiative’s Perspectives for 2018

October 2, 2017 by MHI

Audio: Combatting White Nationalism: Lessons from Marx

April 13, 2017 by MHI

Lain Rejects, then Accepts, then Reneges on Terms of MHI’s Podcast Invitation

April 6, 2017 by MHI

MHI Invites Doug Lain to Discuss Disagreements

January 17, 2017 by MHI

Response to Swedish Podcaster’s False and Harmful Accusations Against MHI

November 24, 2016 by MHI

Audio: Interview with MHI on the Extraordinary Dangers of Trump and Trumpism

October 22, 2016 by MHI

Can a McMullin Vote in Utah Help Stop Trump?

June 7, 2016 by MHI

Video: MHI Tackles “The Vanguardist/Spontaneist Binary” & “Overcoming Capitalism” at Left Forum

May 9, 2016 by MHI

May 21-22: Left Forum Panels on Alternative to Vanguardist/ Spontaneist Binary + others

May 5, 2016 by MHI

Video: MHI’s London Meetings on Humanism, Housing Movement

February 25, 2016 by MHI

Audio: MHI discusses state-capitalism & the nature of Soviet Union

June 10, 2015 by MHI

Video: MHI’s Left Forum 2015 Panels

May 17, 2015 by MHI

Come to MHI’s Panels at the Left Forum, May 29-31 in NYC

April 23, 2014 by MHI

Left Forum 2014 is May 30, 31 and June 1; Come to MHI’s panels!

January 29, 2014 by MHI

Phone-in Reading Group on Dunayevskaya’s “Marxism and Freedom”

November 4, 2013 by MHI

Debate on Economic Crisis Erupts in the CWI: start of much-needed rethinking on the left?

October 17, 2013 by MHI

Video: “Can Income Redistribution Rescue Capitalism?”

August 29, 2013 by MHI

Sept. 16 Discussion: New MHI Pamphlet on Monthly Review School

July 7, 2013 by MHI

Misology, “cultism,” and economic crisis: reply to Paul Demarty

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Resisting Trumpist Reaction
(and Left Accommodation)

Now also available as a pamphlet for $5. Order here. Now also available as a video series.

cover of 2018 Perspectives, _Resisting Trumpist Reaction (and Left Accommodation)_
Our Perspectives thesis includes:

• Trumpism in Power, Aided by the Soft-on-Trump Left, Threatens Life and Liberty
• The Resistance: A Permanent State of Revolt Against Trumpism
• Economic Mythology of Left-Populist Alternatives to Neoliberalism
• Combatting “Post-Truth Politics,” in Practice and in Theory
• Combatting White Nationalism: Lessons from Marx
• Individual Responsibility for the Collective Development of Marxist-Humanism

FILM AVAILABLE

“Raya Dunayevskaya: Biography of an Idea”

MHI is happy to distribute this documentary film by Alex Fletcher. It explores many major concepts of the philosopher, activist, and feminist Raya Dunayevskaya, who developed Marxist-Humanism over much of the last century, up until her death in 1987. The 79-minute film contains rare video clips of her speeches and offers glimpses of material in her archives, as well as featuring interviews of 3 MHI members who belonged to Dunayevskaya’s organization during her lifetime.

Film now available here. Review and trailer here.

Contact us if you would like MHI to join a discussion at your screening:
mhi@marxisthumanistinitiative.org

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FILM AVAILABLE

“Raya Dunayevskaya: Biography of an Idea”

MHI is happy to distribute this documentary film by Alex Fletcher. It explores many major concepts of the philosopher, activist, and feminist Raya Dunayevskaya, who developed Marxist-Humanism over much of the last century, up until her death in 1987. The 79-minute film contains rare video clips of her speeches and offers glimpses of material in her archives, as well as featuring interviews of 3 MHI members who belonged to Dunayevskaya’s organization during her lifetime.

Film now available here. Review and trailer here.

Contact us if you would like MHI to join a discussion at your screening:
mhi@marxisthumanistinitiative.org

Kliman-Harvey Marx Debate

“Capitalism’s Crises: A Debate”

Contributions by Andrew Kliman, David Harvey, and Doug Lain. Appendix by Raya Dunayevskaya.

The recent debate between Harvey and Kliman (and Marx!) is collected here in one place. 54-page pamphlet. Price $5 + postage.

Order through Literature page.

About Our Masthead

 

The illustration in the masthead of this publication, With Sober Senses, is an 1843 political cartoon entitled “Prometheus Bound.” It comments on the Prussian government’s suppression of the Rheinische Zeitung, a newspaper Karl Marx edited in 1842 and 1843. Marx is chained to the printing press; the bird gnawing at him is the Royal Prussian eagle.

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Marxist-Humanist Archives

This website’s Archives page contains numerous writings by Raya Dunayevskaya from 1941-1987 and some additional Marxist-Humanist writings. More documents will be added, including some not available elsewhere.

The major archive of Dunayevskaya’s works, The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection––more than 17,000 pages in addition to her books, audios, and videos––is housed in Wayne State University’s Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library in Detroit, MI. The Guide to the Collection is available here, and microfilm of the papers is on sale from Wayne State.

The Collection is now digitized here. Paper copies of the Guide and Supplemental Guide to the Collection are available from MHI upon special request.

Dunayevskaya’s books are not digitized; they are available for purchase through our Literature page, along with some of her pamphlets and other Marxist-Humanist writings.

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