Nationalism, Communism, Marzist Humaniam
and the
Afro-Asian Revolutions
RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA
with Author's New Introduction
to 1984 Edition
A News & Letters Publication $1.25Nationalism, Communism, Marsist Humanism
and the
Afro-Asian Revolutions
RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA
A News & Letters Publication
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—— TES. UZContents
‘Author's New Introduction to 1984 Edition
Foreword by Peter Cadogan
Introduction to 1961 Edition
African Realities and World Politics
A Glance at the 1950s
The Afro Asian Revolutions
Pan-Africanism
At the Opposite End of the World?
‘The New Stage of World Capitalism:
State Capitalism
‘The Intellectual Bureaucrats and
the Labor Bureaucrats
“Socialism Cannot Be Introduced
by a Minority, A Party”
A New Point of Departure in Theory:
Colonial Revolts Under Imperialism
‘Trotsky's Theory of Permanent
the Light of
Present Day China
Marxist Humanism
APPENDIX I
‘The New Humanism: African Socialism
APPENDIX Il
‘The Stream Beneath the Straws
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New Introduction to 1984 Edition
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“The emergence in our age ofa new Third World nt only
‘Afroasian but Latin American and Miele Bask was
sere geographic designation, as massive and sulstandve
5 that was, Rather, Thied World became synonymous both
inne Fevastion and wh how new forest
eason, These new revalutionary forces peasants 25 w
4s prostarians, Women's Lie‘ationists a8 well a8 youth
dndwaractivsts~ saw in that most exciting color, Black
Se deep a revolutionary dimension and so:ntense a inter.
Pationalism imbedded nthe national iberation sugges
{hat Tara tenga "The Word, H eneompassed he
‘The worldot the 1980s, indeed, was aflame with rebellion,
North and South, Bast and West. The depth of the revel
that freedom fighters in East Europe unleashed agaist the
Communist totaltarians characteried as well the new
feneraton of revolutionaries in the Wes, rebeliig agaist
fhe'bureaueratc, miltarstic, capitalist imperialist world
they'd not make
JUST AS THE AFRICAN DIASPORA meant not only
South Affi ut South USA, and Back meant not ony
Africa “" South, West, East and North — bat also Latin
‘America, including the Caribbean, so Black Consciousness,
Plunging into the struggle for freedom from Western in
Beal di not sap atthe economic level anymore then
fd the Bast European freedom fighters strugling seas
Fassan fotalianarism calling itself Communism. By m0
sean i his say a forging of the esnar
erishmeat of the masses" while man does not Ive by
read alone, he mist have bread to ve