Understanding
MARXISM & FREEDOM
60 Years Later
A Discussion of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Revolutionary Text
Sunday, September 23
6:30-8:30 PM
Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice Blvd. (free parking in rear)
Suite 101-102, press #22 at door to get into building
Culver City (LA area)
Speakers:
Kieran Durkin, UCSB visiting scholar and author of THE RADICAL HUMANISM OF ERICH FROMM
Anna Maillon, community activist and mental health worker, with focus on gender violence, civil rights, and immigration justice
Kevork Sassouni, Armenian student activist who lived in Lebanon for most of his life and has participated in several grassroots social movements.
Lilia Monzo, Chapman University and author of A REVOLUTIONARY SUBJECT: PEDAGOGY OF WOMEN OF COLOR AND INDIGENEITY
Raya Dunayevskaya’s classic 1958 book speaks to contemporary struggles and debates over automation and precarity, race and class, the exploitation and alienation of labor, the causes of economic crises, and the dialectic in Hegel and Marx. Copies of the book will be on sale at reduced price. Admission and discussion free and open. Especially those who have read MARXISM AND FREEDOM are encouraged to comment after the presentations.
Two recent articles on the MARXISM AND FREEDOM anniversary from the INTERNATIONAL MARXIST-HUMANIST
By David Black: https://www.imhojournal.org/articles/sixty-years-of-raya-dunayevskayas-marxism-and-freedom-then-and-now/
By Kevin B. Anderson https://www.imhojournal.org/articles/marxism-and-freedom-after-sixty-years-for-yesterday-and-today/
Sponsored by the West Coast Chapter, International Marxist-Humanist Organization
More information: <arise@internationalmarxisthumanist.org>
https://www.facebook.com/groups/imhorg/
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