Emma Goldman: Anarchist alert! Balkan alert! 1900 period alert!

[Glenn Scheper]

This is a moving text, very P source material, essential ATD background:

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  Emma Goldman - Biographic Sketch - Anarchism and Other Essays

This selection and the essays below are from Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma 
Goldman, originally published as a collection in 1917.

• Table of Contents • Biographic Sketch • Preface • Anarchism: What It Really 
Stands For • Minorities Versus Majorities • The Psychology of Political Violence 
• Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure • Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty • 
Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School • The Hypocrisy of Puritanism • The 
Traffic in Women • Woman Suffrage • The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation • 
Marriage and Love • The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought


Propagandism is not, as some suppose, a "trade," because nobody will follow a 
"trade" at which you may work with the industry of a slave and die with the 
reputation of a mendicant. The motives of any persons to pursue such a 
profession must be different from those of trade, deeper than pride, and 
stronger than interest.


The first years of her childhood Emma Goldman passed in a small, idyllic place 
in the German-Russian province of Kurland, where her father had charge of the 
government stage. At the time Kurland was thoroughly German; even the Russian 
bureaucracy of that Baltic province


She arrived in America, as four years previously in Russia, at a period of great 
social and political unrest. The working people were in revolt against the 
terrible labor conditions; the eight-hour movement of the Knights of Labor was 
at its height, and throughout the country echoed the din of sanguine strife 
between strikers and police.


Since the publication of Governor Altgeld's reason for his liberation of the 
three incarcerated Haymarket Anarchists, no doubt is left that a fivefold legal 
murder had been committed in Chicago, in 1887.

Very few have grasped the significance of the Chicago martyrdom; least of all 
the ruling classes.


Her whole being rebelled against the crime,


Anarchist meetings were an almost daily occurrence.


	SO WHO IN ATD IS EMMA?

	Here's a Tancredi model:

The Homestead fight, the defeat of the Pinkertons, the appearance of the 
militia, the suppression of the strikers, and the complete triumph of the 
reaction are matters of comparatively recent history. Stirred to the very depths 
by the terrible events at the seat of war, Alexander Berkman resolved to 
sacrifice his life to the Cause and thus give an object lesson to the wage 
slaves of America of active Anarchist solidarity with labor. His attack upon 
Frick, the Gessler of Pittsburg, failed, and the twenty-two-year-old youth was 
doomed to a living death of twenty-two years in the penitentiary.

	Also an artist:

The artist comrade is now among the well-known illustrators of New York. The 
suicide candidate


	And this is as P involved Dally?

The police exerted every effort to involve Emma Goldman in the act of Alexander 
Berkman.

	A-and...

Too proud to seek safety in the denial of her identity, she chose to pass the 
nights in the public parks rather than expose her friends to danger or vexation 
by her visits.


"Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give 
you work or bread, then take bread."


It was also during this tour that Emma Goldman met that grand old rebel of 
sexual freedom, Moses Harman.


	I admit a mental flaccidity wrt ATD.
	Who else can you recognize from ATD?


	Blond alert!

Few would have identified the "notorious Anarchist" in the small blonde woman, 
simply attired in the uniform of a nurse.

	Dally:actress::

When Paul Orleneff and Mme. Nazimova arrived in New York to acquaint the 
American public with Russian dramatic art, Emma Goldman became the manager of 
the undertaking.


It is not generally known that it is the Anarchists who are mainly instrumental 
in insuring the success, moral as well as financial, of most of the radical 
undertakings. The Anarchist is indifferent to acknowledged appreciation; the 
needs of the Cause absorb his whole interest, and to these he devotes his energy 
and abilities.


"It is the harmony of organic growth which produces variety of color and form, 
the complete whole we admire in the flower. Analogously will the organized 
activity of free human beings, imbued with the spirit of solidarity, result in 
the perfection of social harmony, which we call Anarchism. In fact, Anarchism 
alone makes non-authoritarian organization of common interests possible, since 
it abolishes the existing antagonism between individuals and classes.


In San Francisco, in 1908, Emma Goldman's lecture attracted a soldier of the 
United States Army, William Buwalda. For daring to attend an Anarchist meeting, 
the free Republic court-martialed Buwalda and imprisoned him for one year. 
Thanks to the regenerating power of the new philosophy, the government lost a 
soldier, but the cause of liberty gained a man.


Respectability could easily forgive the teaching of theoretic Anarchism; but 
Emma Goldman does not merely preach the new philosophy; she also persists in 
living it,--and that is the one supreme, unforgivable crime.


HIPPOLYTE HAVEL.

New York, December, 1910.

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  Emma Goldman - Biographic Sketch - Anarchism and Other Essays



Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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