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Mother Earth. La voz del anarquismo en Norteamérica
Una revista dedicada a las ciencias sociales y la literatura
Emma Goldman y Alexander Berkman (eds.)
Con textos de: Emma Goldman, Helene Stöcker, Max Baginski, Lizzie M. Holmes, Voltairine de Cleyre, W. C. Owen, R. Thomas Breckenridge, Hyppolite Havel, Julia May Courtney, Rebecca Edelsohn, R.A.P., W. S. Van Valkenburgh y Michael A. Cohn.
Publicada en Nueva York por Emma Goldman, con Alexander Berkman como editor, Mother Earth —«una revista dedicada a las ciencias sociales y la literatura»— apareció en la calle en marzo de 1906, con una tirada de 3000 ejemplares. En poco tiempo la aumentaría hasta convertirse en el vocero del anarquismo norteamericano, reportando las giras de sus propagandistas, publicando comentarios de actualidad social y artículos extensos sobre diversos temas, como el movimiento obrero, la educación, la literatura y las artes, el control estatal y gubernamental, la represión del anarquismo, la emancipación de las mujeres, la libertad sexual o el control de la natalidad.
A través de ellos puede recorrerse la problemática social que sacudió el comienzo del siglo XX y apreciarse el espíritu de lucha que animó una publicación de propaganda anarquista tan importante como fue Mother Earth, una propaganda destinada a “vitalizar la autoconciencia de las unidades y grupos sociales, para revolucionar la comprensión y estimular la emoción, para inspirar la audacia que traduce ideales en realidad y así sirve para socavar lo aceptado, lo estático y lo osificado. El propósito de la propaganda anarquista es despertar a la humanidad a una autoconciencia continuamente mayor”.
La semilla esparcida por la Madre Tierra permanece aún en gran medida intacta, ahora por vez primera traducida al castellano —por Federico Corriente— en una selección de algunos de sus mejores textos —editada por el Grupo de Afinidad Quico Rivas—. Esperamos que haga brotar nuevamente la rebeldía que sembró durante sus doce años de infatigable existencia.
Emma Goldman y Alexander Berkman (eds.)
Con textos de: Emma Goldman, Helene Stöcker, Max Baginski, Lizzie M. Holmes, Voltairine de Cleyre, W. C. Owen, R. Thomas Breckenridge, Hyppolite Havel, Julia May Courtney, Rebecca Edelsohn, R.A.P., W. S. Van Valkenburgh y Michael A. Cohn.
Publicada en Nueva York por Emma Goldman, con Alexander Berkman como editor, Mother Earth —«una revista dedicada a las ciencias sociales y la literatura»— apareció en la calle en marzo de 1906, con una tirada de 3000 ejemplares. En poco tiempo la aumentaría hasta convertirse en el vocero del anarquismo norteamericano, reportando las giras de sus propagandistas, publicando comentarios de actualidad social y artículos extensos sobre diversos temas, como el movimiento obrero, la educación, la literatura y las artes, el control estatal y gubernamental, la represión del anarquismo, la emancipación de las mujeres, la libertad sexual o el control de la natalidad.
A través de ellos puede recorrerse la problemática social que sacudió el comienzo del siglo XX y apreciarse el espíritu de lucha que animó una publicación de propaganda anarquista tan importante como fue Mother Earth, una propaganda destinada a “vitalizar la autoconciencia de las unidades y grupos sociales, para revolucionar la comprensión y estimular la emoción, para inspirar la audacia que traduce ideales en realidad y así sirve para socavar lo aceptado, lo estático y lo osificado. El propósito de la propaganda anarquista es despertar a la humanidad a una autoconciencia continuamente mayor”.
La semilla esparcida por la Madre Tierra permanece aún en gran medida intacta, ahora por vez primera traducida al castellano —por Federico Corriente— en una selección de algunos de sus mejores textos —editada por el Grupo de Afinidad Quico Rivas—. Esperamos que haga brotar nuevamente la rebeldía que sembró durante sus doce años de infatigable existencia.
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Published January 1, 2021
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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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June 22, 2023
Muy interesante, sobre todo porque da contexto histórico y, al menos en mi caso, presenta a anarquistas menos conocidos.
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