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ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS
Emma Goldman

With Biographic Sketch by Hippolyte Havel

CONTENTS
Biographic Sketch
Preface
Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
Minorities Versus Majorities
The Psychology of Political Violence
Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty

Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School
The Hypocrisy of Puritanism
The Traffic in Women
Woman Suffrage
The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation
Marriage and Love
The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought

EMMA GOLDMAN

Propagandism is not, as some suppose, a "trade," because nobody will
follow a "trade" at which you may work with the industry of a slave
and die with the reputation of a mendicant. The motives of any persons
to pursue such a profession must be different from those of trade,
deeper than pride, and stronger than interest. GEORGE JACOB
HOLYOAKE.
Among the men and women prominent in the public life of America
there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma
Goldman. Yet the real Emma Goldman is almost quite unknown. The
sensational press has surrounded her name with so much
misrepresentation and slander, it would seem almost a miracle that, in
spite of this web of calumny, the truth breaks through and a better
appreciation of this much maligned idealist begins to manifest itself.
There is but little consolation in the fact that almost every
representative of a new idea has had to struggle and suffer under
similar difficulties. Is it of any avail that a former president of a
republic pays homage at Osawatomie to the memory of John Brown?
Or that the president of another republic participates in the unveiling of

a statue in honor of Pierre Proudhon, and holds up his life to the French
nation as a model worthy of enthusiastic emulation? Of what avail is all
this when, at the same time, the LIVING John Browns and Proudhons
are being crucified? The honor and glory of a Mary Wollstonecraft or
of a Louise Michel are not enhanced by the City Fathers of London or
Paris naming a street after them--the living generation should be
concerned with doing justice to the LIVING Mary Wollstonecrafts and
Louise Michels. Posterity assigns to men like Wendel Phillips and
Lloyd Garrison the proper niche of honor in the temple of human
emancipation; but it is the duty of their contemporaries to bring them
due recognition and appreciation while they live.
The path of the propagandist of social justice is strewn with thorns. The
powers of darkness and injustice exert all their might lest a ray of
sunshine enter his cheerless life. Nay, even his comrades in the
struggle--indeed, too often his most intimate friends--show but little
understanding for the personality of the pioneer. Envy, sometimes
growing to hatred,