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Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman immigrated 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. In the early part of the 20th century Emma Goldman would become one the most ardent supporters...
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Regroupant le plus grand nombre de textes d'Emma Goldman traduits en français, cette anthologie compose un vibrant plaidoyer en faveur du syndicalisme révolutionnaire, de l'athéisme et de l'égalité entre les sexes, ainsi qu'une charge implacable contre le patriotisme et le puritanisme. Emma Goldman y prend entre autres la défense de la pédagogie anti-autoritaire de Francisco Ferrer, elle critique sévèrement le pouvoir bolchevique en Russie...
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Originally published in two volumes in 1931 and 1934, "Living My Life" is the autobiography of Lithuanian anarchist and political activist Emma Goldman. Written while she was living in France, the work covers her life from her poor and unhappy childhood in Lithuania and St. Petersburg, to her move to America in 1885 and settlement in New York as a young woman, and finally to her life as an anarchist and social activist over the next forty years. Famous...
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For Emma Goldman, the "High Priestess of Anarchy," anarchism was "a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions," but "the most elemental force in human life" was something still more basic and vital: sex.
"The Sex Question" emerged for Goldman in multiple contexts, and we find her addressing it in writing on subjects as varied as women's suffrage, "free love," birth control, the "New Woman," homosexuality, marriage,...
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From a writer and anarchist the FBI once called, "the most dangerous woman in America," a leftist critique of the failures of Bolshevik revolutionaries.
The annals of literature tell of books expurgated, of whole chapters eliminated or changed beyond recognition. But I believe it has rarely happened that a work should be published with more than a third of it left out and without the reviewers being aware of the fact. This doubtful distinction...
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