Famous Lithuanian-born anarchist known for his writings and manifestos radical libertarian and feminist, was a pioneer in the struggle for the emancipation of women. He emigrated to the United States when he was 16 years where he worked as textile worker and joined the libertarian socialist movement. In 1919 he was expelled from U.S. and deported to Russia. He lived for some years in Europe, where he wrote his autobiography and other works. was born into a Jewish family in Kaunas in Lithuania, who ran a small hotel during the period of political repression that followed the assassination of Alexander II and when he was 13, he moved with his family to St. Petersburg. He emigrated to the United States with a sister after the confrontation with his father who sought to marry at age 15.
The hanging of four anarchists as a result of the Haymarket riot, encouraged the young Emma Goldman to join the anarchist movement and becoming, in his 20 years a true revolutionary. In New York happens to be the main leader of the anarchist movement in the United States. His support for Alexander Berkman's attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick made it even more unpopular compared to the American authorities. Emma was jailed in 1893 at the Blackwell Island Penitentiary. Publicly incited the workers to stop work ask, if you do not give it, ask for bread, and if you do not give bread or work, pick bread. This quote is a summary of the principle of expropriation advocated by anarcho-communists. While in prison, Goldman developed a deep interest in education of children, efforts that are involved years later. Along with nine others was again arrested on September 10, 1901 for participating in the assassination plot against President William McKinley. One of them, Leon Czolgosz shot him a few days earlier. Emma, \u200b\u200bI knew weeks later and was with him once, when arrested said Do I have to blame a madman to make a misinterpretation of my words? . On February 11, 1916 is arrested and jailed again by the distribution of a manifesto in favor of contraception. For several years, and every time I went for a conference, expected to be arrested, so he was always armed with a good book. In 1917, for the third time, was jailed again along with Alexander Berkman for conspiring against the law requiring military service in the United States. Issued its deep pacifist convictions during the First World War and criticized the conflict as an act of imperialism. Two years later he was deported to Russia. During the hearing at which it was his expulsion, J. Edgar Hoover, who was the president of the company, called Emma as one of the most dangerous women in America . He lived in the USSR and participated in the anarchist uprising Kornshtdadt. Supported the blocheviques against the division between anarchists and communists, a fact that occurred during the First International. Political repression, bureaucracy and forced labor that followed the Russian Revolution contributed greatly to changing ideas of Goldman on how to use violence, except for self-defense.
from this time his writings: Mon désenchatment in Russie (My disappointment with Russia) and Mon autre Russie désenchantement in (My eventual disillusionment with Russia).
not agree with the Soviet authoritarianism, he settled in Canada. In 1936, Goldman worked with the English Republican government in London and Madrid during the English Civil War. It highlight the vehement article he wrote about the famous English anarchist Buenaventura Durruti Durruti entitled is Dead, Yet Living (Durruti is dead, still living). Emma Goldman died in Toronto in 1940 and is buried in Chicago.
is the author of Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) and autobiography Living my life (1931). It was the first person to introduce and disseminate the works of Henrik Ibsen in the United States. 1906 to 1917 edited and published in the U.S. Mother Earth (Mother Earth) a monthly anarchist magazine.
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