Anarchism and other Essays

"The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to stay the advent of the New, in whatever form or period the latter may have asserted itself. Nor need we retrace our steps into the distant past to realize the enormity of opposition, difficulties, and hardships placed in the path of every progressive idea. The rack, the thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us; so are the convict's garb and the social wrath, all conspiring against the spirit that is serenely marching on.

Anarchism could not hope to escape the fate of all other ideas of innovation. Indeed, as the most revolutionary and uncompromising innovator, Anarchism must needs meet with the combined ignorance and venom of the world it aims to reconstruct.

To deal even remotely with all that is being said and done against Anarchism would necessitate the writing of a whole volume. I shall therefore meet only two of the principal objections. In so doing, I shall attempt to elucidate what Anarchism really stands for." - Emma Goldman

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Table of Contents :

Biographic sketch of E. Goldman by H. Havel

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 MODERN DRAMA: A POWERFUL DISSEMINATOR OF RADICAL THOUGHT