Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Description

Emma Goldman spent a decade on the lecture platform before she wrote a word of this book, and the essays carry her speaking voice: direct, fierce, and built on the conviction that any listener could be reasoned with. Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) opens with her famous definition of anarchism — the philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law — and moves through the machinery of the age: minorities and majorities, the psychology of political violence, the prison as a social crime and failure, patriotism as a menace to liberty, the execution of Francisco Ferrer, and the hypocrisy of puritanism.

Her essays on women — the traffic in them, the fraud of suffrage without freedom, the tragedy of their emancipation, and the honest heart of love outside marriage — cut against conventional society and mainstream feminism alike, and The Traffic in Women remains a founding text of feminist thought.

Why readers still come back to it

• Emma Goldman’s first book and her clearest statement of what she believed.
• Twelve essays that still ignite argument about state, sex, and freedom.
• A first-hand voice of American radicalism in its golden age.

About this DodaBooks edition

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