In the first of these essays, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, she says, „Direct action, having proven effective along economic lines, is equally potent in the environment of the individual.” In Minorities Versus Majorities she holds that social and economic well-being will result only through „the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.” Other pieces deal with The Hypocrisy of Puritanism Prisons: A Social Crim and Failure The Psychology of Political Violence-note the relevence of these themes to our own time The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty and The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation. This book is a collection of her remarkably penetrating essays, far in advance of their time, originally published by the Mother Earth press which she founded. A Russian Jewish immigrant at the age of 17, she moved by her own efforts from seamstress in a clothing factory to internationally known radical lecturer, writer, editor and friend of the oppressed. In the eighteen-nineties and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the „notorious Anarchist,” feminist, revolutionist and agitator, Emma Goldman.
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