Anarchism and other Essays

"The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to stay the advent of the New, in whatever form or period the latter may have asserted itself. Nor need we retrace our steps into the distant past to realize the enormity of opposition, difficulties, and hardships placed in the path of every progressive idea. The rack, the thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us; so are the convict's garb and the social wrath, all conspiring against the spirit that is serenely marching on.Anarchism could not hope to escape the fate of all other ideas of innovation. Indeed, as the most revolutionary and uncompromising innovator, Anarchism must needs meet with the combined ignorance and venom of the world it aims to reconstruct.To deal even remotely with all that is being said and done against Anarchism would necessitate the writing of a whole volume. I shall therefore meet only two of the principal objections. In so doing, I shall attempt to elucidate what Anarchism really stands for." - Emma GoldmanThis new edition comes with an Easy to Read Layout designed to make reading comfortable.Table of Contents :Biographic sketch of E. Goldman by H. HavelANARCHISM: WHAT IT REALLY STANDS FORMINORITIES VERSUS MAJORITIESTHE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCEPRISONS: A SOCIAL CRIME AND FAILUREPATRIOTISM: A MENACE TO LIBERTYFRANCISCO FERRER AND THE MODERN SCHOOLTHE HYPOCRISY OF PURITANISMTHE TRAFFIC IN WOMENWOMAN SUFFRAGETHE TRAGEDY OF WOMAN'S EMANCIPATIONMARRIAGE AND LOVETHE MODERN DRAMA: A POWERFUL DISSEMINATOR OF RADICAL THOUGHT