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Title: Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman ISBN: 0-486-22484-8 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1969 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Red Emma
Comment: This is, as someone already pointed out, not THE best collection of Emma Goldman's essays; however, it is a great starting point for anyone who wants to learn more about Emma Goldman, her life, her views and about Anarchism in general. It's a great read, completely relevant to today's world in light of Sept. 11 and the anti-globalization riots in Genoa a few months ago. I highly recommend this book to new readers of Emma's work and for those already aquainted with "Red" Emma.
Rating: 5
Summary: Emma Goldman's essays collected
Comment: I've heard from many people who are interested in reading books about anarchism (allthough i think the term "anarchism" is incorrect) that most books about anarchy are "heavy" and difficult to get through much less understand because they aim their content to readers that have a good backround of political understanding (its terminologies, its "schools" of thought, its currents and so forth..).
If this happens to be your problem then this book will be ideal if you want to discover what this political philosophy stands for and what its issues are and, indeed, have been for a long time.
Emma Goldman, a woman with as fiery a personality as they come, has put together here a number of essays about anarchy that are easy to comprehend and definately thought inspiring.
Despite this book having been first published in 1917 it loses nothing of its importance in the current state affairs as all of the issues Goldman deals with not only remain unsolved but they have -in the meantime- become a social burden or a social disaster much worse than back in her time. Oh, and back in her time things already looked bad enough.
What you get here is, summarily, the following:
-anarchy, what is it and what does it stand for? Beyond the mainstream media cliches anarchy stands for personal and societal freedom of the highest conceivable order. A freedom, anarchists insist, that is not a utopia. It's basically a hard lesson in crushing your illusions and opening unthought of doors of perception of what freedom really means. That would be then something other than being in a cage and having food thrown in. Even if the cage is invisible..
-Hard punching essays about the prison system and the everself-destructing notion of patriotism.. Funny how every line one reads in there could've been written yesterday. Not much has changed. After decades and decades of the imprisonment system has society become more law-abiding? That would be a thundering no. Why is that? As for patriotism, the incredible notion of dying for your country the same one that might be killing you slowly while draining you of all your resources and enslaving you in a wage system and a daily mindless-toil called "work" . here, Emma has to say a lot. There's always a reason to die if someone is going to make money out of it (that would be NOT you) and dress the whole "cause" up as patriotic..
-The hypocrisy of puritanism as well as the seemingly eternal joke of marriage and "love" are also given the treatment they deserve. In a society based on hypocrisy alltogether, you have to start on a personal level. You have to lose your personal chains before you attempt to free others. Your personal chains begin with the things you've been taught to hold most sacred (as is generally the case). The morals that are not yours. Whom do they really serve? The institutions that everyone notices they have fail and yet most continue to serve them. Why? How can this possibly be?
These are just some of the issues dealt with in Emma's essays.
A classic book that will basically reprogram your brain if you honestly think about the issues in it. But reprogrammed into what? Well, it will only reprogram you into thinking for yourself. For once. If you do, you'll find that the illusion you've been living in does indeed serve someone. Your long hard road to becoming an individual will thus commence.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful writer
Comment: Presented are numerous well written, well udnerstood essays. Essays ranging from the topics of anarchism, women's suffrage, prisons, patriotism, and everything else relevant. If you wish to get into Emmas work I suggest you get this, because its not expensive, but yet it contains a number of essays. If you want the whole shebang get the emma goldman reader. Also check out Alexander Berkman and Peter kropotkin, 2 famous anarchists of the era.
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Title: Living My Life, Vol. 1 by Emma Goldman ISBN: 0486225437 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1930 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin ISBN: 048641955X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: God and the State by M. Bakunin ISBN: 048622483X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Anarchism: From Theory to Practice by Daniel Guerin, Mary Klopper ISBN: 0853451753 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Emma by Howard Zinn ISBN: 089608664X Publisher: Consortium Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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