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Definition of ANARCHIST
1: a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power
2: a person who believes in, advocates, or promotes anarchism or anarchy; especially : one who uses violent means to overthrow the established order
— anarchist or an·ar·chis·tic adjective
Emma Goldman (also known Red Emma) was an anarchist, feminist, rebel and free speech activist. She became one of the most outspoken and well-known of American radicals, lecturing and writing on anarchism, women’s rights and other political topics. Here are sixteen of her most controversial essays.
Emma Goldman served prison and jail terms for such activities as advising the unemployed to take bread if their pleas for food were not answered, for giving information in a lecture on birth control, for opposing military conscription, and in 1908 she was deprived of her citizenship.
In 1917, with Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman was convicted of conspiracy against the draft laws, and sentenced to to years in prison and fined $10,000.
In 1919 Emma Goldman, along with her long-time associate Alexander Berkman and 247 others who had been targeted in the Red Scare after World War I, emigrated to Russia on the Buford. But Emma Goldman’s libertarian socialism led to her Disillusionment in Russia, as the title of her 1923 work says it.
Obviously, an anthology of this nature will not please everybody perfectly because there is a wide variety of themes and stylistic approaches represented in this book. Nevertheless, this is an excellent collection of stories from a wide variety of different themes, styles, viewpoints, subjects, tones and genres.
In this collection of essays:
Essay 1: Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
Essay 2: Minorities Versus Majorities
Essay 3: The Psychology of Political Violence
Essay 4: Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
Essay 5: Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty
Essay 6: Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School
Essay 7: The Hypocrisy of Puritanism
Essay 8: The Traffic in Women
Essay 9: Woman Suffrage
Essay 10: The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation
Essay 11: Marriage and Love
Essay 12: The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought
Essay 13: The Founding of Mother Earth, The Only Anarchist Monthly in America
Essay 14: A Letter to the Editor
Essay 15: The Child and Its Enemies
Essay 16: The Failure of Christianity
A must-have for fans of political anarchy texts!
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