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Feminismo y Anarquismo vol I y II reunidos
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Published April 5, 2024
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Emma Goldman
371 books1,051 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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November 4, 2025
Leyendo a la bien llamada Mujer más peligrosa de América, uno puede adivinar el profundísimo amor con que difundía las ideas libertarias –el único, auténtico peligro. Desde sus críticas al feminismo sufragista a las de la religión, las cárceles y el gobierno, persiste el afán de la renovación, de la libertad individual que ya entonces tergiversaban las élites económicas, embruteciendola en el dominio. Nietzsche y Stirner, Kropotkin y Bakunin, Wolfstonecraft y los trascendentalistas nutren a la que fue una mujer sensible, inteligente y valiente, que aportó especialmente en los debates feministas (el amor libre, la crítica al matrimonio y a un feminismo alejado de la lucha de clases, el aborto, la prostitución, el control de la natalidad, etc), aunque arrastrara algunos puntos conflictivos (como ciertas aseveraciones acerca de la mujer o nociones simplificadas en exceso).
Flaquezas comprensibles dada su formación autodidacta y no académica, que sin embargo no opaca el trabajo de toda una vida. Es ella además quién habla de sus propias experiencias, de su testimonio de mujer trabajadora, de su contexto histórico y del movimiento anarquista en EEUU, sentando un precedente para el feminismo subsecuente. Sin olvidar que acudió a la revolución española del 36, vio con sus propios ojos la revolución rusa y pasó más de tres veces por la cárcel, todo por dinfundir la idea.
Ante personas así, uno no puede dar menos que todo.
Flaquezas comprensibles dada su formación autodidacta y no académica, que sin embargo no opaca el trabajo de toda una vida. Es ella además quién habla de sus propias experiencias, de su testimonio de mujer trabajadora, de su contexto histórico y del movimiento anarquista en EEUU, sentando un precedente para el feminismo subsecuente. Sin olvidar que acudió a la revolución española del 36, vio con sus propios ojos la revolución rusa y pasó más de tres veces por la cárcel, todo por dinfundir la idea.
Ante personas así, uno no puede dar menos que todo.
August 28, 2025
Si con Kropotkin decía que invitaba a imaginar un mundo mejor, con Emma directamente te hace saber que puede serlo. Que puedes hacer un mundo mejor cada día, con cada acto. Este libro está lleno de frases sencillamente memorables, que lo son porque son tan reales como lo puede ser estar vivo.
Emma te golpea en cada momento con frases de claridad, llenas de rebeldía y de lucha, de una lucha que no tiene que ser necesariamente violenta, de una lucha que va más de ser disidente. Y para eso no hace falta confrontación alguna, basta con amar desde el respeto cuando los demás dicen que ates a tu pareja, basta con ser uno mismo y respetar a los demás cuando los que mandan no quieren que lo hagas. Este libro es una oda a incomodar desde el respeto y el cariño. Por eso aunque la mayoría de textos son de hace más de cien años son perfectamente válidos a día de hoy, porque se nos sigue pidiendo que seamos puritanos, que atemos en corto lo que sentimos, que nos odiemos en vez de comprendernos y que guardemos silencio cuando toca hablar.
Emma te golpea en cada momento con frases de claridad, llenas de rebeldía y de lucha, de una lucha que no tiene que ser necesariamente violenta, de una lucha que va más de ser disidente. Y para eso no hace falta confrontación alguna, basta con amar desde el respeto cuando los demás dicen que ates a tu pareja, basta con ser uno mismo y respetar a los demás cuando los que mandan no quieren que lo hagas. Este libro es una oda a incomodar desde el respeto y el cariño. Por eso aunque la mayoría de textos son de hace más de cien años son perfectamente válidos a día de hoy, porque se nos sigue pidiendo que seamos puritanos, que atemos en corto lo que sentimos, que nos odiemos en vez de comprendernos y que guardemos silencio cuando toca hablar.
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