[Marxism] Eugene Gogol

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eugene Gogol was the son of Bessie Gogol, who used to be one of the leaders
of a post-Trotskist grouping called News and Letters, which had been led by a 
woman named Freddie Forest who called herelf Raya Dunavaskaya. They called 
themselves Marxist-Humanists. C.L.R. James was in the group, but they had a
falling out after awhile. They'd been in the SWP at the same time and I think
may have left at the same time or times. Here's a bit more:

Eugene Gogol served as a secretary to Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1980s,
as well as managing editor of the Marxist-Humanist newspaper News &
Letters. His political activity began in the 1950s as a youth member
of News and Letters Committees and within the Civil Rights Movement.

In the 1960s he worked with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in
Los Angeles, and participated in the Mississippi Summer Project in
1964, teaching Black history in Jackson, Mississippi. He co-authored
The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution (1965) with Raya
Dunayevskaya and Mario Savio. In the mid-1960s he edited The
Marxist-Humanist on the UCLA campus. He was a participant-observer in
the events in Paris in May-June 1968, and authored the pamphlet,
France, Spring 1968: Masses in Motion, Ideas in Free Flow. In
addition to working in News and Letters Committees in the 60s, he was
a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which he left
when it degenerated into Maoism.

Gogol participated in the Anti-Vietnam War Movement and in the 1970s,
returned to school in the area of Latin American Studies, and later
completed a study on the ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui in relation
to Karl Marx, which was published by the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México as Mariátegui y Marx: La transformación social en
los países en vías de desarrollo.

Gogol's travels in Latin America include several visits to Chiapas
Mexico several times since the Zapatista rebellion of 1994. He has
written a major study on Latin America, The Concept of Other in Latin
American Liberation: Fusing Emancipatory Philosophic Thought and
Social Revolt (Lexington, 2002). The author welcomes dialogue and
debate on the ideas presented in this study. He can be contacted at
egogol@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Here's an essay he wrote on her:
http://www.thehobgoblin.co.uk/books/books05.htm#Raya

Bessie used to live here in Los Angeles where she belonged
to News and Letters. He had a daughter also named Judy
something-or-other who was a business agent for my union,
SEIU Local 535 many years ago. I haven't seen her in ten or
twenty years. 


Walter Lippmann





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