Emma Goldman - An exceedingly dangerous woman Part 1

movie by Mel Bucklin

Emma Goldman (18691940) 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]

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.

[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.

[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.

[23SHEVEK]

@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.

[ArcaneDemesne]

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

[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.

[TheAmazingamerica]

Threw her out of the country. LOL