Emma Goldman - An exceedingly dangerous woman Part 8

movie by Mel Bucklin

Emma Goldman (1869 -1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.

For more information see:

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• anarchy
• anarchism
• female
• anarchist
• emma
• goldman

[jmatrim]

3:00- "She intellectualized a (Bolshevik) revolution she didn't really understand..."

The historians should not necessarily inherit Goldman's own analysis of having made a mistake- she did what she had to do when she had to do it everytime. Is it just me or do they sound a bit arrogant...?

[jystyle]

It was not her fault the bolsheviks were tyrannical dictatorial socialists. They betrayed her seeing that Anarchists represented freedom and a real threat to their tyrannical reign. Freedom and justice without strengh and organization are folly. What is the point of freedom if you cannot guarrantee Security.

[agnostoatomo]

@jmatrim Not "they" but this popper yuppie looking Greenhorn who doesn't even seem to understand the difference between Bolshevik Socialism and an Anarchosyndicalistic attitude has nothing but his fullscale arrogance left to make a statement...poor!

Bateman on the other side is something completely different.

[Marenqo]

that is not true, you [Bergman] have accomplished a lot, hope and love

[jaminunit]

Anarcho-capitalism is the only way to truly be free

[oliviamatthews]

completely agree