Anarchism and Other Essays / Edition 1

by Emma Goldman

Overview

Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is the very thing Anarchism is combating?
- Emma Goldman, from "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For"

From the turn of the 20th century to the turn of the 21st, the fiery words of "notorious" anarchist Emma Goldman continue to echo with passion, insight, and intelligence. Beyond the title essay, Goldman's impassioned calls for equality, individual freedom, and social justice encompass:

. Minorities versus Majorities
. The Psychology of Political Violence
. Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
. Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty
. The Hypocrisy of Puritanism
. The Traffic in Women
. The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation
. Marriage and Love
. The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought
. and more.

They were prophetic when they were first published in 1910, but these essays demonstrate that even today Goldman, a thinker of profound wisdom, has not yet seen her time come.

Also available from Cosimo Classics: The Social Significance of Modern Drama, by Emma Goldman.

Anarchist and feminist EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) is one of the towering figures in global radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Lithuania, she emigrated to the United States as a teenager, was deported in 1919 for her criticism of the U.S. military draft in World War I, and died in Toronto after a globetrotting life.

An early advocate of birth control, women's rights, and workers unions, she was an important and influential figure in such far-flung geopolitical events as the Russian Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Among her many books are My Disillusionment in Russia (1925) and Living My Life (1931).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596052819
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.64(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