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Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and
free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous - and notorious - woman
in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her
two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist
Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials,
imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the
epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the
Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with
Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard
today, "Living My Life" is a riveting account of political ferment
and ideological turbulence.
There was a general rejoicing when the regime of Tsar Nicholas II
fell in February 1917, a new era of liberty dawned. But what would
come next?This book presents sketches of encounters in the new
Russia.* Emma Goldman relates her experiences of daily life, her
meeting with Peter Kropotkin and tells the story of the life of
Maria Spiridonova, a famous SR activist who escaped from a mental
hospital where she had been locked up.* Gaston Leval and Angel
Pestana were members of a delegation from the Spanish CNT union and
reported back on what they found, especially how trade unions
functioned with policeman keeping order in union meetings. Armando
Borghi tells of a meeting with Victor Serge.* Jack Wilkens wrote a
series of articles for the French journal Le Libertaire. They tell
of how Soviets functioned, of how workers live, of working
conditions for men and women and of rural life
A collection of essays by America's most prominent anarchist,
feminist, and critic of both capitalism and communism, who was
imprisoned and deported for opposing the First World War. Includes
"Anarchy Defended by Anarchists," "The Tragedy of Women's
Emancipation," "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For," "The
Psychology of Political Violence," "Patriotism: A Menace to
Liberty," "Speech Against Conscription And War," "There Is No
Communism In Russia," and "The Individual, Society, And The State."
This anthology draws together essays, interviews and pamphlets
exploring the relationship between anarchism and feminism.
Powerful, penetrating, prophetic essays on direct action, role of minorities, prison reform, puritan hypocrisy, violence, etc.
Emma Goldman is one of the most celebrated activists and
philosophers of the early 20th century, admired and reviled for her
anarchist ideas and vociferous support of free speech and personal
liberation. A polarizing figure in life, Emma Goldman was among the
first advocates of birth control for women. From 1900 to 1920 she
was in and out of jail in the United States on charges of illegally
promoting contraception, inciting riots in favor of her social and
economic causes, and discouraging potential recruits to avoid the
draft for World War I. Although Goldman initially supported the
Bolshevik Revolution, the resulting Soviet Union's repressiveness
caused an abrupt reversal in her opinion. Goldman's narrative is
thorough yet compelling; her childhood in Russia, her emigration to
the USA as a teenager, and her attraction to anarchist and social
causes is told.
One of the towering figures in global radicalism of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries, EMMA GOLDMAN (18691940) was an anarchist,
a feminist, a pacifist, a communist, a unionist, and a proponent of
birth control and free love. Her extreme notions made her as much
an object of outrage as one of reverence in the tumultuous years of
the Gilded Age, World War I, and the Roaring Twenties, and her name
remains, to this day, synonymous with ideas of sweeping cultural
revolution. Here, in her two-volume memories, first published in
1931, she tells her life story. From her arrival in New York as a
20-year-old seamstress, when she immediately launched into a life
of activism and public agitation, she recalls her childhood in
Lithuania, her immigration to the U.S. as a teenager, and her wild
adventures as an independent and intelligent woman: baptizing
babies on a beer barrel, supporting workingmens strikes, traveling
in Europe] An important and influential figure in such far-flung
geopolitical events as the Russian Revolution and the Spanish Civil
War, Goldman is one of the most storied people of the 20th century.
And her story, in her own inimitable words, is one of the great
biographies, and one of the great personal histories of a turbulent
era.
2011 Reprint of 1911 Edition. Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940) was an
anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches.
She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political
philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the
twentieth century. Anarchism was central to Goldman's view of the
world and she is today considered one of the most important figures
in the history of anarchism. First drawn to it during the
persecution of anarchists after the 1886 Haymarket affair, she
wrote and spoke regularly on behalf of anarchism. In the title
essay of her book Anarchism and Other Essays, she wrote:
"Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human
mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human
body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles
and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order
based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of
producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every
human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the
necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and
inclinations."
Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emmigrated to the United
States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to
anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in
which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were
killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists
were subsequently tried for murder. "Anarchism and Other Essays" is
a collection of essays first published in 1911. The volume includes
the following essays: Anarchism: What It Really Stands For,
Minorities Versus Majorities, The Psychology of Political Violence,
Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure, Patriotism: A Menace to
Liberty, Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School, The Hypocrisy of
Puritanism, The Traffic in Women, Woman Suffrage, The Tragedy of
Woman's Emancipation, Marriage and Love, and The Drama: A Powerful
Dissimenator of Radical Thought.
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