meet Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

[OneBlueSky]

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

"We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open." (Emma Goldman, "Free Speech in Chicago," Lucifer the Lightbearer 30 November 1902)

"In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them." (Emma Goldman, "Preparedness, The Road to Universal Slaughter," Mother Earth December 1915)

if she were around today, think she's be posting on DU? . . .

[Terwilliger]

1. probably not

she'd be too busy organizing daily protests :bounce:

[JanMichael]

2. No, she'd be preparing for the Revolution.

BushCo would have her apofreakingplectic.

[IrateCitizen]

4. Just so long as she could still dance!

"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." -- Emma Goldman

One of my favorite quotes of her's -- kind of reveals the pure zest for life that she had!

[IrateCitizen]

3. I read her autobiography this past year... a great read!

She was an amazing woman, someone who I have a great deal of admiration for. She was uncompromising about one idea -- that people should be free to live their lives unhindered by the exploitation by or condemnation of others. She was an original "libertarian" -- before the word became soiled with the fairy tale of free market fundamentalism.

One interesting thing about her book is her disenchantment of the Bolsheviks in Russia -- she thought they were more despicable than the capitalists who had persecuted her in the US!

[el_gato]

5. the bolsheviks hijacked the revolution

anarchists started the revolution by killing the czar and then it
was hijacked by the bolsheviks who then proceeded to kill the original revolutionaries.


She had good reason to hate them.

[IrateCitizen]

6. actually, it was the bolsheviks who killed the czar

The Mensheviks had only placed the Czar and his family under house arrest.

The Bolsheviks were all about the accumulation of power for power's sake -- nothing else. That much comes through loud and clear from Emma's telling of her experiences in the Soviet Union.

[el_gato]

7. I would like to read this book

thanks

[rogerashton]

8. The anarchists supported the Russian Revolution at first, but

were soon "put in their place" -- by the Red Army in the Ukraine, especially. Read Voline's account, too.