Talk:Raya Dunayevskaya
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This page seems to need serious work. I am not a News and Letters member but this page is seriously incomplete. I tried to fix it by adding the reference to News & Letters which didn't even exist but there is much much more that someone needs to write about the latter half of Raya's life.
To Rmaholtr, who wrote the above: Agreed. I've begun on it and will over time continue to add to it, if no one else beats me to it. Franklin Dmitryev 02:27, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Note on the intro: another editor felt that the intro should state that Dunayevskaya was a leader of the SWP. I'm not aware of a source for that, if it means the elected leadership. If it means leadership of an opposition faction, then it should be stated that way. In any case, it seems to me that the reason to have an entry on her in any encyclopedia is her original contributions, not her membership in the SWP from 1938-1940 and 1947-1951. I don't see the logic in putting that on a level with her original contributions, and with founding and leading her own organization for 32 years. The "Wikipedia:Notability (people)" article gives the following criterion for inclusion of a biography in Wikipedia: "Has the person made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in the specific field?" This is the case for her founding of the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism. It would be a bit implausible to argue that her association with the SWP meets this criterion. If anyone disagrees, I suggest a bit of discussion on this talk page before putting something like that into the article's intro. Franklin Dmitryev 02:27, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
