Work · Political Philosophy & Ethics (20th–21st c.)
Anarchism and Other Essays
Lectures on anarchism, prisons, political violence, the “traffic in women”, marriage and love, and why the vote will not free women.
Introduction
Emma Goldman, a Lithuanian-born anarchist in New York and editor of the monthly Mother Earth, published the book in 1910, drawing on lectures she had given across the United States. The essays define anarchism as a social order based on liberty, explain political violence as a response to social injustice rather than individual wickedness, attack patriotism and militarism, and discuss the anarchist educator Francisco Ferrer. The essays on women argue that the vote has not freed women where they already have it, that marriage is an economic arrangement with little to do with love, and that prostitution follows from women’s economic dependence. The book is the main collection of her thought.
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