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Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman

Paperback | Pages: 271 pages

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Original Title:	Anarchism and Other Essays
ISBN:	0486224848 (ISBN13: 9780486224848)
Edition Language:	English

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In the eighteen-nineties and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the "notorious Anarchist," feminist, revolutionist and agitator, Emma Goldman. A Russian Jewish immigrant at the age of 17, she moved by her own efforts from seamstress in a clothing factory to internationally known radical lecturer, writer, editor and friend of the oppressed. This book is a collection of her remarkably penetrating essays, far in advance of their time, originally published by the Mother Earth press which she founded.

In the first of these essays, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, she says, "Direct action, having proven effective along economic lines, is equally potent in the environment of the individual." In Minorities Versus Majorities she holds that social and economic well-being will result only through "the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass." Other pieces deal with The Hypocrisy of Puritanism; Prisons: A Social Crim and Failure; The Psychology of Political Violence—note the relevence of these themes to our own time; The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought; Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty; and The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation. A biographical sketch by Hippolyte Havel precedes the essays.

Anarchism and Other Essays provides a fascinating look into revolutionary issues at the turn of the century, a prophetic view of the social and economic future, much of which we have seen take place, and above all, a glimpse into the mind of an extraordinary woman: brilliant, provocative, dedicated, passionate, and what used to be called "high-minded."

Unabridged republication of the 3rd (1917) edition, with a new Introduction by Richard Drinnon. Frontispiece. xv + 271 pp. 5-3/8 x 8-1/2. Paperbound.

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Title	:	Anarchism and Other Essays
Author	:	Emma Goldman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 271 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1969 by Dover Publications (first published 1910)
Categories	:	Politics. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Feminism. Writing. Essays. History. Sociology

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Emma Goldman (1869-1940) expressed it all with the following:Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soilless army of human prey.And to think these words were written by a woman, and a young woman at that in the latter part of the nineteenth century.What do you think you would do, if as an individual in the 21st century, you found yourself in a

It was surprising that in this book towards the end Emma put such a pointed focus on Love. Not just in Love vs. Marriage in many of the essays towards the end of the book she speaks of love of humanity and romantic love as essential elements of the revolutionary mind. I've always thought that any true revolutionary is a romantic at heart. Towards the start of the more revealing and less shared elements of her discussion of Anarchism is her note about its fluidity, the inclusion of anarchist

A true iconoclast visionary. It's hard to believe that this was published in 1910 as many of her ideas have stood the test of time and stood well. Especially her essays on the dangers of nationalism.

Late 19th/early 20th-century radical, Emma Goldman was an early advocate of birth control, workers' unions and women's rights. Horrified by the outcome of the Haymarket Riots in Chicago, Emma helped a group of radicals change the way workers were treated, subsequently putting her on a political blacklist and treated as a criminal in any anarchist movement that occurred throughout the country. Outspoken and confident in her beliefs regarding birth control and free love, she was the target for

"If I can't dance it's not my revolution" Emma Goldman.

Another one who would supplant one utopian monopoly with one of her choosing. "Anarchy" as a means to a glorious atheistic communism rather than as a philosophical underpinning of a life lived free. Infantile and selective reading of history to support her own cult of personality around herself. Short on any tangible answers except for the rote and populist communist dream of guiding the revolution to a vague paradise in the distant future. Some may find her treatments of marriage, love,

"Anarchism urges man to think, to investigate, to analyze every proposition; but that the brain capacity of the average reader be not taxed too much, I also shall begin with a definition, and then elaborate on the latter...." ~E.G.A fabulous introduction to Anarchism, especially for those of us who find reading and understanding political theory a bit daunting.