This edition includes a biographical afterword. In these twelve essays we find a representative collection of Goldman’s political philosophy, including her view of what anarchism stands for, the psychology of political violence, feminism and women’s rights, the injustice of the prison system, and other opinions on art, education, sexuality, religion, and patriotism. “Anarchism and Other Essays” is a collection of essays first published in that journal and later published together as a book in 1911. In 1906 Goldman founded the anarchist journal “Mother Earth”. In the early part of the 20th century Emma Goldman would become one the most ardent supporters of the anarchist philosophy, advocating it through lectures and writings, and even in helping to plan, with her lover Alexander Berkman, a failed assassination of wealthy financier Henry Clay Frick. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. Buy Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over. |a Reprint of the 1917 ed., with a new introd. In these twelve essays we find a representative collection of Goldman's political philosophy, including her view of what anarchism stands for, the psychology of political violence, feminism and women's rights, the injustice of the prison system, and other opinions on art, education, sexuality, religion, and patriotism. 'Anarchism and Other Essays' is a collection of essays first published in that journal and later published together as a book in 1911.

In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal 'Mother Earth'. In the early part of the 20th century Emma Goldman would become one the most ardent supporters of the anarchist philosophy, advocating it through lectures and writings and even in helping to plan, with her lover Alexander Berkman, a failed assassination of wealthy financier Henry Clay Frick.

Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman immigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen.

Goldman anarchism and other essays