EMMA GOLDMAN
Biographical Sketch
By
CHARLES A. MADISON
Author of
CRITICS AND CRUSADERS
Published by
Libertarian Book Club, Inc.
P. O. Box 842
General Post Office New York 1, N. Y.
May 13, 1960
Reprinted from
"CRITICS AND CRUSADERS"
by Charles A. Madison
with the permission of
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.
| In Memoriam |
| The Libertarian Book Club |
| has published this pamphlet as |
| a tribute to the memory |
| of our brave comrade |
| EMMA GOLDMAN |
| died May 13, 1940 |
| to commemorate the twentieth anniversary |
| of her death |
EMMA GOLDMAN
ANARCHIST REBEL
The hanging of several anarchists in 1887 as a consequenceof the Haymarket bombing in Chicago caused many Americansto sympathize with the gibbeted radicals. Youthsswathed in bright idealism, men and women rooted in equalitariandemocracy, workers trusting in the rectitude of their government—alldoubted the guilt of the condemned prisoners and were deeplyperturbed by the egregious miscarriage of justice. Many of them forthe first time became aware of the state's ruthless arrogation ofpower, and scores upon scores remained to the end of their livesinimical to government and apprehensive of all forms of authority.
Emma Goldman was one of these converts. Resentment againstthe restraints of authority was no new experience for this spiritedgirl. As far back as she could remember she had hated and fearedher father, a quick-tempered and deeply harassed Orthodox Jewwho had vented his emotional and financial vexations on his recalcitrantdaughter. Unable to get from him the love and praise shecraved, she had refused to submit to his strict discipline and hadpreferred beatings to blind obedience. Consequently she grew upin an atmosphere of repression and acrimony. "Since my earliestrecollection," she wrote, "home had been stifling, my father'spresence terrifying. My mother, while less violent with her children,never showed much warmth."
At the age of thirteen she began to work in a factory in St. Petersburg,and her life became doubly oppressive. She soon learned ofthe revolutionary movement and sympathized with its agitation< BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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