Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsChicago, May 4, 1886. In the Haymarket region of the city, a peaceful Labor Day demonstration suddenly turns into a riot. The police intervene to maintain peace, but they soon use violence to quell the mob and a bomb is thrown, resulting in death and injuries to scores of people. In the widely publicized trial that followed, eight anarchists were condemned to death or life imprisonment, convicted of conspiracy, though none of them had actually thrown the bomb.
A young Russian immigrant, Emma Goldman, had arrived just the previous year in the United States. She was deeply affected by what came to be known as the Haymarket Affair. She took on various jobs, including that of a factory worker before becoming a writer and lecturer committed to anarchist philosophy. In the years to follow, she and her lover planned to assassinate a well known financier and industrialist. Though the victim survived, Goldman's lover was sentenced to life imprisonment while she received a lesser sentence.
However, she continued to spend time in and out of jail for various activities including distribution of literature regarding birth control, inducing people not to join the newly introduced military draft etc. She was deported back to Russia but found the regime there highly repressive and lived in Canada, England and France. She wrote passionately about issues that concerned humanity including prisons, religion, marriage, free love, the right of choice, capitalism, homosexuality, gender politics and militarism.
Anarchism and Other Essays was first published by her own publishing house, Mother Earth. It opens with an introduction by Hippolyte Havel, a Czech anarchist who lived in Greenwich Village in New York. He was a great friend of the playwright, Eugene O'Neill, who based some of the characters in his plays on Havel. Havel provides a detailed biography of Emma Goldman and ends with a stirring call to emancipate humanity. Emma Goldman's preface describes her own journey and motives.
Twelve chapters delineate Goldman's philosophy and ideas. They include thoughts on Minorities versus Majorities, Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure, The Hypocrisy of Puritanism, Marriage and Love, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation and several more. Living in an age marked by the rise of unbridled capitalism, self righteousness, imperialism and greed, in these essays she writes simply, passionately, earnestly and penetratingly about ideas and ideals and how individuals are constantly in conflict with society.
Goldman wrote ceaselessly; her works include pamphlets, essays, books and tracts. As an interesting and radical viewpoint, Anarchism and Other Essays is a thought provoking read which was also strangely prophetic about the future of politics to come.
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02 – Minorities Versus Majorities
December 31, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
03 – Psychology of Political Violence
December 30, 2023 00:00 - 51 minutes - 22.9 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
04 – Prisons, A Social Crime & Failure
December 29, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
05 – Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 16.2 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
06 – Francisco Ferrer
December 27, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 17.2 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
07 – The Hypocrisy of Puritanism
December 26, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes - 8.58 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
08 – The Traffic in Women
December 25, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
09 – Woman Suffrage
December 24, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
10 – The Tragedy of Womans Emancipation
December 23, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 10.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
11 – Marriage and Love
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 10.5 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
12 – The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought – Part 1
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes - 18.1 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
13 – The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought – Part 2
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 5.72 MBMore great books at LoyalBooks.com