Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman was Born june 27, 1869 was an anarchist known as a rebel, a feminist, and a writer.
She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchistpolitical philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Goldman immigrated to the US in 1885 when she was fifteen and livedin New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement. Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, free love, birth control, women's equalityand independence, union organization and criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I.
Emma Goldman was supporter offree love, but this was not a promiscuous love. She was saying that the sexuality is the most natural of the human being, therefore any social organization isunnatural, because nature don’t know and don’t need organizations to self reproduce. Trying to control nature spontaneity would be the destruction of this. Sonothing is freer than the love.
Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing informationabout birth control.
In 1917, Goldman and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to"induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported toRussia.
After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she travelled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940.
She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchistpolitical philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Goldman immigrated to the US in 1885 when she was fifteen and livedin New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement. Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, free love, birth control, women's equalityand independence, union organization and criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I.
Emma Goldman was supporter offree love, but this was not a promiscuous love. She was saying that the sexuality is the most natural of the human being, therefore any social organization isunnatural, because nature don’t know and don’t need organizations to self reproduce. Trying to control nature spontaneity would be the destruction of this. Sonothing is freer than the love.
Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing informationabout birth control.
In 1917, Goldman and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to"induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported toRussia.
After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she travelled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940.
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