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Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman

Anarchism and Other Essays is a 1910 essay collection by Emma Goldman, first published by Mother Earth Publishing. The essays outline Goldman's anarchist views on a number of subjects, most notably the oppression of women and perceived shortcomings of first wave feminism, but also prisons, political violence, sexuality, religion, nationalism and art theory. Hippolyte Havel contributed a short biography of Goldman to the anthology.

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“Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…”

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Variant: Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.
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“Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”

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“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”

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“Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fullfilled only through man's subordination.”

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Anarchism: What it Really Stands For http://books.google.com/books?id=U5ZYAAAAMAAJ&q="Anarchism+is+the+only+philosophy+which+brings+to+man+the+consciousness+of+himself+which+maintains+that+God+the+State+and+society+are+non-existent+that+their+promises+are+null+and+void+since+they+can+be+fullfilled+only+through+man's+subordination"&pg=PA58#v=onepage (1910)

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“Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Marriage and Love

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“Free love? As if love is anything but free!”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Marriage and Love

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“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation

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“There is no reason whatever to assume that woman, in her climb to emancipation, has been, or will be, helped by the ballot.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Woman Suffrage

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“I do not believe that woman will make politics worse; nor can I believe that she could make it better. If, then, she cannot improve on man’s mistakes, why perpetrate the latter?”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Woman Suffrage

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“What would become of the rich, if not for the poor? What would become of these idle, parasitic ladies, who squander more in a week than their victims earn in a year, if not for the eighty million wage-workers? Equality, who ever heard of such a thing?”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Woman Suffrage

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“Society creates the victims that it afterwards vainly attempts to get rid of.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Traffic in Women

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“Human nature asserts itself regardless of all laws, nor is there any plausible reason why nature should adapt itself to a perverted conception of morality.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Traffic in Women

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“It is a conceded fact that woman is being reared as a sex commodity, and yet she is kept in absolute ignorance of the meaning and importance of sex.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Traffic in Women

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“So long as one can use scented candy to abate the foul breath of hypocrisy, Puritanism is triumphant.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Hypocrisy of Puritanism

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“It repudiates, as something vile and sinful, our deepest feelings; but being absolutely ignorant as to the real functions of human emotions, Puritanism is itself the creator of the most unspeakable vices.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Hypocrisy of Puritanism

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“With Puritanism as the constant check upon American life, neither truth nor sincerity is possible. Nothing but gloom and mediocrity to dictate human conduct, curtail natural expression, and stifle our best impulses.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Hypocrisy of Puritanism

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“Has not authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as treasonable?”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty

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“The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice, society has retained the primitive motive in dealing with the offender; that is, revenge.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure

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“Those who have a spark of self-respect left, prefer open defiance, prefer crime to the emaciated, degraded position of poverty.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure

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“I do not mean to deny the biologic, physiologic, or psychologic factors in creating crime; but there is hardly an advanced criminologist who will not concede that the social and economic influences are the most relentless, the most poisonous germs of crime.”

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Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure

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