Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays

by Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays

by Emma Goldman

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Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781891396540
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Publication date: 01/05/2011
Pages: 280
Sales rank: 249,552
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Emma Goldman (1869–1940) immigrated to the United States from Russia as a teenager before being deported in 1919 for her revolutionary activities. She spent her adult life writing, lecturing, and struggling on behalf of the anarchist ideal. She edited Mother Earth and wrote numerous essays and books, including Living My Life and My Disillusionment in Russia

Jessica Moran was assistant editor of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History, and co-editor of Alexander Berkman’s Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. She is a member of the Kate Sharpley Library collective and is a librarian and archivist currently living and working in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Barry Pateman was associate editor of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History, editor of Chomsky on Anarchism, and co-editor of Alexander Berkman’s Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. He is a historian and member of the Kate Sharpley Library collective.

Hippolyte Havel (1871–1950) was a Czech anarchist at the center of New York’s political and artistic circles at the turn of the twentieth century. He was an editor of numerous publications, including Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth and his influence on several writers, artists, and intellectuals helped shape American modernism.

Table of Contents

BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH
PREFACE
ANARCHISM: WHAT IT REALLY STANDS FOR
MINORITIES VERSUS MAJORITIES
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITCAL 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
THE DRAMA: A POWERFUL DISSEMINATOR OF RADICAL THOUGHT
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