Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist and political activist who immigrated to America in the late 1800s and became one of the most prominent radical voices of her era, advocating for individual liberty, workers' rights, and social revolution. She matters historically because her ideas and activism shaped American political discourse and helped define modern anarchism, even though her views remained controversial and often put her at odds with the government.
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- 27 June 1869
- Died
- 14 May 1940
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- 136
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- Down with the anarchists!
- Syndicalism
- The place of the individual in society
- Emma Goldman on Anarchism
- Marriage and Love
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Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
Born in Kaunas, Lithuania (then within the Russian Empire), to a Lithuanian Jewish family, Goldman immigrated to the United States in 1885. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair in Chicago, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate industrialist and financier Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Frick survived the attempt on his life in 1892, and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.
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