New Anarchist Library: No. 8 in a Series

EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) was a Lithuanian-born American political activist and renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands.  During her life, she was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers and derided by critics as "the most dangerous woman in America" and an advocate of violent revolution.  She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.  After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s when popular culture rekindled interest in her life and thought.

Goldman had little formal education, but she read widely and in St. Petersburg associated with a group of radical students.  She emigrated to the United States in 1885 where she worked in clothing factories and became acquainted with socialist and anarchist fellow workers.  She and fellow anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick as an act of "propaganda of the deed", but 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" that she edited until its suppression in 1917.

Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality; she even developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into feminism and anarchism.  She also lectured frequently on the contemporary dramatic works of such European playwrights as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and George Bernard Shaw.  Her talks on their work were published as THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MODERN DRAMA (1914).  The essays in ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS (1910) outline Goldman's views on a number of subjects, most notably the oppression of women and perceived shortcomings of first wave feminism, but also prisons, political violence, sexuality, religion, nationalism and art theory.

In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft.  After their release, they were arrested — along with hundreds of others — and deported to Russia.  Initially supportive of that country's October Revolution that brought the Bolsheviks to power, Goldman changed her opinion in the wake of the Kronstadt rebellion, and denounced the Soviet Union for its violent repression of independent voices.  She left the Soviet Union and published a book about her experiences, MY DISILLUSIONMENT IN RUSSIA (1923).

Her autobiography, LIVING MY LIFE, was published in two volumes in 1931 and 1934, and thoroughly covers her personal and political life from early childhood through to 1927


The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as indicated:

* Anarchism and Other Essays (Dover, 1969 / Duke Classics, 2012) — PDF + ePUB
* Anarchy! An Anthology (Counterpoint, 2012). P. Glassgold, ed. — PDF + ePUB
* Anarchy and the Sex Question (PM, 2016). S. Wilbur, ed. — PDF
* Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace (1919) [with Alexander Berkman]
* Emma Goldman: Documentary History of the American Years — PDF
    — Vol. 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 (California, 2003).  C. Falk, ed.
    — Vol. 2: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909 (Illinois, 2008).  C. Falk, ed.
* Fragment of the Prison Experiences (Stella Comyn, 1919)
* Living My Life (Dover, 1970).  2 vols. — ePUB
* Living My Life (abridged) (Penguin Classics, 2006).  Miriam Brody, intro. — ePUB
* Marriage and Love (Mother Earth, 1911 / Duke Classics, 2012) — PDF + ePUB
* My Disillusionment in Russia (Doubleday, 1923) — PDF
* My Further Disillusionment in Russia (Doubleday, 1924) — PDF + ePUB
* Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings & Speeches (Prometheus, 1998) — PDF + ePUB
* Social Significance of the Modern Drama (Badger, 1914) — PDF
* Traffic in Women & Other Essays on Feminism (Times Change, 1970) — PDF
* Vision on Fire: Goldman on the Spanish Revolution (AK, 2006). D. Porter, ed. — PDF


These reprints from the Anarchist Library are also included (all PDF):

* A Beautiful Ideal [1908] (AL, 2020)
* A New Declaration of Independence [1909] (AL, 2009)
* A Sketch of Alexander Berkman [1922] (AL, 2018)
* Address To the IWMA Congress (AL, 2020)
* Address To the Jury [1917] (AL, 2020)
* Alexander Berkman's Last Days [1936] (AL, 2009)
* An Unexpected Dash Through Spain [1929] (AL, 2009)
* Anarchy and the Sex Question [1896] (AL, 2009)
* Anarchy Defended By Anarchists [1896] (AL, 2009)
* Articles in the New York Times [1917] (AL, 2020)
* Bolsheviks Shooting Anarchists [1922] (AL, 2011)
* Child and Its Enemies [1906] (AL, 2011)
* Deportation [1919] (AL, 2020)
* Donald Vose the Accursed [1916] (AL, 2020)
* Down With the Anarchists [1910s] (AL, 2020)
* Durruti Is Dead Yet Living [1936] (AL, 2020)
* Failure of Christianity [1913] (AL, 2020)
* Individual Society and the State [1940] (AL, 2020)
* Intellectual Proletarians [1914] (AL, 2020)
* Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure (AL, 2020)
* Light and Shadows [1910] (AL, 2020)
* Living My Life [1931] (AL, 2009)
* Marriage [1897] (AL, 2020)
* Marriage and Love [1914] (AL, 2020)
* Mary Wollstonecraft [1911] (AL, 2020)
* Mother Earth [1906] (AL, 2020)
* My Disillusionment in Russia [1923] (AL, 2009)
* My Further Disillusionment in Russia [1924] (AL, 2009)
* On Zionism [1938] (AL, 2012)
* Patriotism a Menace To Liberty [1917] (AL, 2020)
* Philosophy of Atheism [1916] (AL, 2020)
* Political Persecution in Republican Spain [1937] (AL, 2020)
* Preparedness, the Road To Universal Slaughter [1915] (AL, 2009)
* Ross Winn's Obituary [1912] (AL, 2020)
* Sacco and Vanzetti [1929] (AL, 2009)
* Samuel Gompers [1925] (AL, 2009)
* Social Aspects of Birth Control [1916] (AL, 2020)
* Social Importance of the Modern School (AL, 2009)
* Social Significance of the Modern Drama [1914] (AL, 2009)
* Socialism: Caught in the Political Trap (AL, 2020)
* Speeches Against Conscription [1917] (AL, 2020)
* Suggestions for Discussion [1928] (AL, 2020)
* Syndicalism: Its Theory and Practice [1913] (AL, 2020)
* Syndicalism: The Modern Menace To Capitalism [1913] (AL, 2009)
* There Is No Communism in Russia [1935] (AL, 2020)
* Traffic in Women [1910] (AL, 2020)
* Tragedy at Buffalo [1901] (AL, 2012)
* Tragedy of the Political Exiles [1934] (AL, 2020)
* Trotsky Protests Too Much [1938] (AL, 2020)
* Voltairine De Cleyre [1932] (AL, 2020)
* Was My Life Worth Living [1934] (AL, 2020)
* What I Believe [1908] (AL, 2020)
* Woman Suffrage Chameleon [1917] (AL, 2018)

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