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Il nous faut être prêts à chaque instant: Sur la violence politique
Comment changer la société si les discours se révèlent impuissants face à la violence d'État ? Émeutes à répétition, chômage élevé, marches de la faim, précarité extrême : la fin du XIXe siècle, aux États-Unis, est marquée par un désarroi brutal. À New York, Emma Goldman, 24 ans, harangue les foules de chômeurs. Le 21 août 1893, à Union Square, devant plus de trois mille personnes, elle prononce un discours d'une grande virulence, prônant l'expropriation des riches, qui lui vaut d'être condamnée à un an de prison pour incitation à l'émeute. On trouvera ici ce célèbre discours, ainsi que la conférence que Voltairine de Cleyre, elle aussi tenante de l'action directe, donnera alors pour défendre son amie. Quatre autres textes viennent compléter ce recueil sur la violence politique : « Une vision anarchiste de la vie » (1933), « La psychologie de la violence politique » (1917), « En route vers le massacre universel » (1915), et « La puissance de l'idéal » (1912).
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Published September 13, 2023
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Emma Goldman
363 books1,047 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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March 19, 2024
Les textes d'Emma Goldman sont une véritable trace de l'histoire du 19 e siècle
Nous comprenons et avons des traces des travailleurs et travailleuses
De ce qu'ils accomplissent
Le texte de Voltairine de Clayre illustre les différences entre elle mais pourquoi elles sont liées
Je recommande
Nous comprenons et avons des traces des travailleurs et travailleuses
De ce qu'ils accomplissent
Le texte de Voltairine de Clayre illustre les différences entre elle mais pourquoi elles sont liées
Je recommande
June 25, 2025
superrr hyper inspirant et texte sur la guerre d'actualité...
pas fan des textes "puissance de l'idéal" et aussi "une vision anarchiste de la vie"
pas fan des textes "puissance de l'idéal" et aussi "une vision anarchiste de la vie"
December 23, 2025
Certains textes très intéressants et actuels qui parlent de la guerre et de la militarisation de la société. D'autres un peu mid, intéressants d'un pdv historique mais sans plus
January 9, 2025
retranscription d’un des discours les plus marquants du 19ème siècle, un des plus fondateurs de l’anarchisme américain. A lire.
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