Raya Dunayevskaya, later known as Rae Spiegel and also by the pseudonym Freddie Forest, was an American political writer and philosopher who founded the philosophy of Marxist humanism in the United States. Once a secretary to Leon Trotsky, she later split with him and founded the organization News and Letters Committees, leading it until her death. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Raya Dunayevskaya (born Raya Shpigel, Рая Шпигель; May 1, 1910, June 9, 1987), later Rae Spiegel, also known by the pseudonym Freddie Forest, was an American political writer and philosopher who founded the philosophy of Marxist humanism in the United States.
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Her simultaneous study of the Russian economy and of Marx's early writings (later known as the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844), led to her theory that not only was the USSR a "state capitalist" society, but that "state capitalism" was a new world stage.
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