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L'anarchisme : ce dont il s'agit vraiment: Et autres textes anarcha-féministes
Importance des minorités pour faire société, émancipation des femmes, critique de la propriété privée et de la domination sous toutes ses formes - Emma Goldman, grande figure du féminisme mondial et de l'anarchisme international, nous rappelle qu'on ne doit pas transiger, jamais, avec l'égalité et la liberté.
Avec elle, l'anarchisme est une éthique de vie énergique, incarnée, traversée de sentiments et d'émotions, qui épouse les contours de l'histoire au tournant du XIXe et du XXe siècle. Bien sûr, il s'agit d'un engagement politique contre la violence d'État, contre l'industrialisme esclavagiste, contre les majorités serviles, contre toutes les formes de coercition, mais l'art et la culture y sont aussi nécessaires à l'émancipation d'individu·e·s qui doivent pouvoir être libres de leurs corps, de leurs gestes et de leur parole, choisir leur travail au lieu de le subir, et être considéré·e·s non pas selon leur sexe, mais selon leur mérite.
Les cinq textes publiés ici témoignent tous de la pensée vigoureuse, directe et claire de cette femme hors norme qui fut aussi une oratrice exceptionnelle, haranguant sans relâche des foules où les hommes n'étaient pas les moins nombreux.
Avec elle, l'anarchisme est une éthique de vie énergique, incarnée, traversée de sentiments et d'émotions, qui épouse les contours de l'histoire au tournant du XIXe et du XXe siècle. Bien sûr, il s'agit d'un engagement politique contre la violence d'État, contre l'industrialisme esclavagiste, contre les majorités serviles, contre toutes les formes de coercition, mais l'art et la culture y sont aussi nécessaires à l'émancipation d'individu·e·s qui doivent pouvoir être libres de leurs corps, de leurs gestes et de leur parole, choisir leur travail au lieu de le subir, et être considéré·e·s non pas selon leur sexe, mais selon leur mérite.
Les cinq textes publiés ici témoignent tous de la pensée vigoureuse, directe et claire de cette femme hors norme qui fut aussi une oratrice exceptionnelle, haranguant sans relâche des foules où les hommes n'étaient pas les moins nombreux.
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Emma Goldman
362 books1,040 followersEmma Goldman was a feminist anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands.
She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Although Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.
In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported to Russia.
Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940, aged 70.
During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution.Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.
Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands.
She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Although Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.
In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported to Russia.
Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940, aged 70.
During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution.Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.
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July 19, 2025
Parfait pour débuter dans l’anarchisme 💪
Donne plein d’arguments contre le capitalisme, les normes sociales et en faveur du féminisme
Donne plein d’arguments contre le capitalisme, les normes sociales et en faveur du féminisme
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December 7, 2024A lire absolument ! Pour se donner de la force dans les luttes, pour abolir quelques préjugés à propos de l'anarchisme et pour découvrir une femme à la pensée limpide, une incroyable oratrice, pionnière à bien des égards !
August 2, 2025
"Le proxénète compte sans nul doute parmi les plus misérables spécimens de la famille humaine, mais en quoi est-il plus abject que le policier qui prend le dernier sous de celle qui racole la rue avant de la jeter en cellule ?"
she ate i fear.
she ate i fear.
May 7, 2025
J'adore merci Mme Goldman
September 26, 2023
Malgré quelques perspectives un peu vieillissantes, Goldman offre une vue personnelle et contemporaine de l'anarchie, des idées qui portent son mouvement et ses convictions intimes et de la façon dont fonctionnait la société aussi bien au début du XXe siècle, ainsi qu'aujourd'hui, sur des sujets peut être différents mais toujours analogues.
October 13, 2024
Banger, je suis anarchiste en fait !
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January 19, 2025Très intéressant mais difficile à comprendre sur certains points
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