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Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2)

by Emma GOLDMAN (1869 - 1940)

Biographic Sketch, pt. 1

Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays. Drawing from a wealth of illustrative material, including the examples of fellow anarchists and radicals of her own acquaintance, modern martyrs, dissident playwrights, poets, and authors, etc., she delineates the main themes of her philosophy with incisiveness and evangelical passion. Included among these themes are: a definition of decentralized anarchism itself; the ambiguous morality of direct action; the curse of modern patriotism; the horrors of early twentieth-century prisons; the need for an entirely new kind of education; the relationship of legal marriage to true love; the insidious danger of Puritanical thought within feminism itself; the deadly spread of sex trafficking; the limitations or even undesirability of woman suffrage; and the extraordinary revolutionary potential of modern theatre. Sadly, none of these themes seem obsolete even to a modern reader; every one of them has direct application to twenty-first century society. - Summary by Expatriate

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Listen next episodes of Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2):
The Psychology of Political Violence, pt. 2 , The Psychology of Political Violence, pt. 3 , Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, pt. 1 , Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, pt. 2 , Biographic Sketch, pt. 2 , Biographic Sketch, pt. 3 , Francisco Ferrer & the Modern School, pt. 1 , Francisco Ferrer & the Modern School, pt. 2 , Marriage & Love , Minorities vs. Majorities , Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty, pt. 1 , Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty, pt. 2 , Preface by Author , Prisons: A Social Crime & Failure, pt. 1 , Prisons: A Social Crime & Failure, pt. 2 , The Hypocrisy of Puritanism , The Modern Drama, pt. 1 , The Modern Drama, pt. 2 , The Psychology of Political Violence, pt. 1 , The Traffic in Women, pt. 1 , The Traffic in Women, pt. 2 , The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation , Woman Suffrage