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Excerpt from Marriage and Love Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind. That marriage is a failure none but the very stupid will deny. One has but to glance over the statistics of divorce to realize how bitter a failure marriage really is. Nor will the stereotyped Philistine argument that the laxity of divorce laws and the growing looseness of woman account for the fact th...

Destruction and Violence! How is the ordinary man/woman to know that the most violent element is 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 pf "notorious" anarchist Emma Goldman continue to echo with passion, insight and intelligence. Beyond the title ess...

Candace Falk is a Guggenheim Fellow and the founding director of the Emma Goldman Papers research project at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of New York Times Notable Biography of the Year Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman. Barry Pateman is the associate editor of the Emma Goldman Papers, curator of the Kate Sharpley Library, and editor of Chomsky on Anarchism. Jessica Moran is a former assistant editor of the Emma Gold...

Nel suo articolo, What I Believe (Ciò che io credo), pubblicato dal New York World il 19 luglio 1908, scritto in risposta alla vasta disinformazione pubblica riguardante l'anarchia e il movimento anarchico, Emma Goldman contrasta sistematicamente le calunnie contro di lei e descrive a grandi linee il suo approccio anarchico alle questioni relative alla proprietà, al governo, al militarismo, alla libertà di opinione e di stampa, alla chiesa, al...

After being deported from the United States to Russia in 1920, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman witnessed first-hand the contradictions of Lenin's so-called "dictatorship of the proletariat, " the murder and imprisonment of Russian anarchists, and Trotsky's lethal suppression of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising. While the two revolutionaries had initially offered critical support to the Bolshevik regime, the tyranny they witnessed in the so-calle...

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, ...

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»Eine starke, unabhängige Frau, die sich vom Korsett aller Konventionen befreite - eine großartige politische Autobiografie.« Ilija TrojanowDie »Rote Emma«, geboren 1869, war zu ihren Lebzeiten eine gleichermaßen verehrte wie gefürchtete Symbolfigur des Anarchismus. Sie wurde bekannt durch ihre Reden für die Rechte der Arbeiter*innen, für Geburtenkontrolle, gegen die Wehrpflicht. 1886 war sie im Alter von 17 Jahren aus Russland in die USA emig...

Donna e anarchica, Emma Goldman rappresenta ancora oggi un'originale chiave di lettura della realtà contemporanea. Trasferendo nella scrittura l'intelligenza e la passione che caratterizzarono il suo attivismo in America, in Russia e nella Spagna repubblicana, "Emma la rossa" si presenta come una delle voci più rappresentative del movimento anarchico e femminista. Il suffragio femminile, il matrimonio, le gabbie morali del puritanesimo e il dr...

Excerpt from My Disillusionment in RussiaI found reality in Russia grotesque, totally unlike the great ideal that had borne me upon the crest of high hope to the land of promise. It te quired fifteen long months before I could get my bearings. Each day, each week, each month added new links to the fatal chain that pulled down my cherished edifice. I fought desper ately against the disillusionment. For a longtime I strove against the still voic...

Excerpt from The Social Significance of the Modern Drama IN order to understand the social and dynamic significance of modern dramatic art it is necessary, I believe, to ascertain the difference between the functions of art for art's sake and art as the mir ror of life. Art for art's sake presupposes an attitude of aloofness on the part of the artist toward the com plex struggle of life: he must rise above the ebb and tide of life. He is to ...

Excerpt from A Fragment of the Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman My present space is limited. I can merely shadow forth here a skeleton outline of this big and very vital subject. In a forthcoming book I shall analyze more thoroughly the sources and the psychology of crime, and write of the unique and interesting prison types and characters I have met. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...

Excerpt from Anarchism and Other EssaysThe mist in which the name of Emma Goldman has so long been enveloped is gradually beginning to dissipate. Her energy in the furtherance Of such an unpopular idea as Anarchism, her deep earnestness, her courage and abilities, find growing understand ing and admiration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book ...

One of the towering figures in global radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) was an anarchist, a feminist, a pacifist, a communist, a unionist, and a proponent of birth control and free love. Her extreme notions made her as much an object of outrage as one of reverence in the tumultuous years of the Gilded Age, World War I, and the Roaring Twenties, and her name remains, to this day, synonymous with idea...

One of the towering figures in global radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) was an anarchist, a feminist, a pacifist, a communist, a unionist, and a proponent of birth control and free love. Her extreme notions made her as much an object of outrage as one of reverence in the tumultuous years of the Gilded Age, World War I, and the Roaring Twenties, and her name remains, to this day, synonymous with idea...

Volume 1 of the candid, no-holds-barred account by American anarchist Goldman relates her philosophical and political journey through life, beginning with her emigration from Russia to the U.S. in 1886.

Volume 2 of the candid, no-holds-barred account by foremost American anarchist Goldman continues with the fascinating story of her life, the anarchist movement, her famous contemporaries, and their influential ideas.

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'...

The Modern Drama, as all modern literature, mirrors the complex struggle of life... -Emma Goldman, in the Foreword With her reputation as a political radical, it is often forgotten that much of Emma Goldman's activism was rooted in the arts. As a member of The Progressive Stage Society, a founding force in the experimental theater movement, and through her work as a theatrical manager herself, she moved in quite artistic circles. And in these ...

The "most dangerous woman alive" in the most inspring revolution of modern history.