Emma Goldman - An exceedingly dangerous woman Part 1

[brabon1]

if the occupy people had the balls, foresight and goals of this woman...i would stand with them

this was a time of shame in america....and totally glossed over in the movie, j. edgar

[TheCochyn]

A photograph of Red Emma is on my wall above this desk. Apart from all her principles, and her bravery, the fact that she said: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution" says almost as much - so, in Libya, in Egypt, in Syria - WHERE ARE YOUR WOMEN ?

[giangosdrakoulas]

A woman with balls.!!! Respect.

[dubified89]

2:15 this dude always nails it in the comments

[bapyou]

Emma Goldman is my hero. 

[rossharmonics]

My great-uncle had the copyrights to Emma's books. She had no heirs so he inherited them. He had negotiated the contracts for her books, helped raise money to buy her a house in France after she left Russia, and arranged her return to America to lecture, if she promised not to incite any riots or insurrection.

[ArcaneDemesne]

@rossharmonics Aren't copyrights (and any intellectual property rights in general) frowned upon by anarchists? Just sayin'.

[TheAmazingamerica]

Threw her out of the country. LOL

[repacementsfan]

I remember she was portrayed in the Warren Beatty movie Reds.

[wittyusername55]

Since I'm already annoyed, I'll just mention how much I can't stand these morons in documentaries talking about a person that was around a hundred years as if they just saw them five minutes ago. "A plain jewish russian girl... with SOME magnetism" uh... she's only a world wide known anarchist. I love Emma Goldman, but I suggest reading her book. It's way more fun, insightful, and accurate.

[wittyusername55]

*around a hundred years ago*

[Gusty85]

I don't agree, sure Emma's book gives more insight, but i think these documentarys makes her more easy to reach for those not alread infused with anarchism. Anarchism should not try to be secterian, I dont mind it at all. As long as more people get to know about her the easier they will find out more about anarchism.

[wittyusername55]

I agree with you. There should be lots of positive things about her out there in any or all forms of  media- as long as more people learn about her. I only wish that when they DO make things about her they have enough respect and reverence for her that they get the facts right!

[Gusty85]

Agreed. I want to know more about her and the Spanish Revolution her last infusion of hope.

[wittyusername55]

This is just dumb and inaccurate. what they said about Berkman thinking that women only came to anarchist meetings to get a husband was actually said by Johann Most. I've only read the first four chapters of her autobiography and I already see inconsistencies.

[Gusty85]

True!

[LikeGedeon]

ROMANS I, 18~ 32.

[jmatrim]

As brilliant as Emma Goldman is, I am often saddened that her intellect is so often ignored by feminist scholarship- she had 3rd-wave, post-feminism figured out long before ww2 or the 90's. She is known for anarchism, but her arguments match up to the contemporary post-modernist quite decently. The sad music reflects for me not that she is the tragic figure, but that our way of life, and its anti-intellectual moral fabric is tragic. To read her work is to know her much better than this movie.

[p717]

Even sadder that a pseudo intellect like Ayn Rand sucks all of the converts to individualism away from Emma's ideas.

[rolpho]

Ayn rand was a hater of homosexuals..true

[ramberghini]

thus, Rand was a total bitch. How can you believe in 'liberty' in you hate on others because of their sexuality? She was a tyrant acting under the guise of freedom.

[jaminunit]

So if Neil Armstrong "hated homosexuals" would we have to hate space travel? or the fact that he was the first? I personally think there is nothing wrong with being Gay as every one should be free to do as they please as long as they don't initiate violence against others or inhabit the freedoms of others. Ayn Rand had allot of bad ideas but some amazing ones to.

[xxdiogenescynicxx]

@ramberghini Because she thought it wasn't the governments business when it came to marriage rights, etc but thought that homosexuality was morally reprehensible, it didn't mean that she was opposed to homosexual peoples individual rights.

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@xxdiogenescynicxx

[23SHEVEK]

Emma Goldman along with Voltairine de Cleyre and Lucy Parsons were the founders of Anarcha-Feminism. What Anarcha-Feminism does. is piss all over Waves 1-3 of Feminism because: 1st Wave Feminism is tied up with Statism. 2nd Wave Feminism deos not advocate for equality but rather for a gender role reversal where Matriarchy replaces Patriarchy. And Third Wave Feminism has way to much vested interest in the reformation of Capitalism.