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Emma Goldman challenges the state, the church, marriage and the ballot in twelve fiery essays.
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- 1910by Emma Goldman
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Anarchism and Other Essays in short
Goldman's argument runs in one line. People have an instinct for self-development and an instinct for mutual aid, and the two belong together. Religion, property and government set them against each other.
What Anarchism and Other Essays is about
A young woman sits in a packed hall, sure that one speaker's voice can change every mind in the room. Emma Goldman felt exactly that, then spent twenty-one years learning how little a speech leaves behind. So she gathered her best thinking into a book for the readers who truly want to learn.
That book is Anarchism and Other Essays, published in 1910. Its twelve pieces attack the pillars of her age, from government and prisons to patriotism, marriage and the stage. She argues that the individual and society are not enemies, and that the cure for their war is liberty. The first idea is the most misunderstood: what anarchism really means.
Для кого. Readers drawn to political philosophy, radical history and impassioned essays will love this collection, especially those curious about labor, women's rights, prisons, war and education.
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Anarchism means freedom from rule, not chaos
Goldman faces two charges against anarchism: that it is a lovely dream that cannot work, and that it means violence. She says both come from hearsay. Anarchism, in her definition, is a social order built on freedom from man-made laws, resting on the belief that every government rests on force.
On the charge of impracticality she borrows from Oscar Wilde. A practical plan is one already in place, yet people object to existing conditions, so a plan that accepts them is foolish. The true test is whether an idea has the life to build something new.
Her deeper claim is that the individual and social instincts are not enemies. One drives personal growth and the other drives mutual aid, like the heart and the lungs. She also refuses to draw a blueprint, because each generation must build what fits its own needs. Judge an idea by what it says, not by the fear attached to its name.
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Religion, property and government hold humans in chains
Goldman names three strongholds of human enslavement.
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Government cannot produce order or cure crime
Goldman tests the common defenses of government one by one.
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Direct action works better than the ballot
Goldman rejects the political road to change.
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The majority cannot be trusted to lead
Goldman says the spirit of her age is quantity.
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Political violence springs from despair, not doctrine
Goldman admits this subject is dangerous, because understanding is so easily mistaken for praise.
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Prisons and patriotism both feed on fear
Goldman opens the prison essay with a story Dostoyevsky wrote on his cell wall.
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Education should respect the child's own will
Goldman tells the story of Francisco Ferrer, a Barcelona teacher shot at Montjuich prison on 13 October 1909.
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Puritan morality breeds the vices it condemns
Goldman argues that Puritanism treats life as a curse and demands penance, rejecting every natural impulse.
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Real freedom for women begins in the soul
Goldman treats the ballot as a fetish.
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Вопросы о книге Anarchism and Other Essays
What is Anarchism and Other Essays about?
It is a collection of twelve essays by Emma Goldman on anarchism, majority rule, political violence, prisons, patriotism, education, Puritanism, prostitution, woman suffrage, marriage and modern drama. Together they argue for individual liberty and against the power of state, church and property.
What does Emma Goldman mean by anarchism?
She defines it as a philosophy of a new social order based on freedom from man-made laws, resting on the view that all government rests on force. She presents it as voluntary cooperation among free individuals, not as disorder.
Does Goldman support political violence?
She says she hates murder, and argues that anarchism values human life above things. In the essay on political violence, she explains such acts as responses to despair and injustice, and she places the blame on the conditions that drive people to them.
Is Anarchism and Other Essays easy to read?
Each essay stands alone, so you can read them in any order. Goldman writes in a lively, direct voice, uses vivid cases such as Ferrer, Vaillant and Nora, and opens with a short preface that explains her purpose.
Why is the book still worth reading?
It gives a first-hand account of the radical ideas of 1910 on labor, women's lives, prisons, war and schooling. Many of its questions about authority, conformity and personal freedom are still debated, so it gives you strong arguments to think against or with.
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Goldman, Emma. Anarchism and Other Essays. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/anarchism-and-other-essays.
Goldman, E. (2026). Anarchism and other essays. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/anarchism-and-other-essays (Original work published 1910)
Goldman, Emma. Anarchism and Other Essays. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/anarchism-and-other-essays.
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