KEY RE-RELEASE OF A BOOK OF EMMA GOLDMAN anarchistic: “LIVING MY LIFE”

She was the daughter of a Lithuanian Jewish family when this nation was part of the Russian Empire. When I had 13 years moved with his family to St. Petersburg. At twenty he immigrated with his sister Helena United States, He settled first in New York where he became a cooperative of seamstresses assemble and married an immigrant naturalized in the United States. Although the marriage lasted ten months served to retain US citizenship.

Emma soon became involved in the anarchist movement and became a propagator of the ideas of Bakunin. His memoirs are just a hymn to life and hope and a generous activism propaganda of anarchy.
“Living my life” Emma Goldman has been published by Captain Swing and FAL (Madrid, 2014 ). This first volume marks the spirit of Emma's life to 1911. Emma Goldman would make his own life a true taste of art and activism in the service of the cause.

His arrival in the United States coincided with the protest movement of so-called martyrs of Haymarket (Chicago), which he had led to the gallows four anarchists. Emma met Alexander Berkman, Lithuanian anarchist living in United States, which he was decisive in his anarchist training and became his companion. Also around this time he befriends American anarchist writer Voltairine of Cleyre. Active anarchist feminists created the club Mother Eart (Mother Earth), He is offering weekly lectures on various topics and musical evenings.

Great reader and lover of the theater made speeches talking about anarchism through thought of Tolstoi, Ibsen and Hauptman. His non-dogmatic anarchist ideas made him become an advocate of both individualism and collectivism Stirner Kropotkin.

The young anarchist was devoted to travel from one end to the United States becoming an insightful and intelligent speaker who defended both the exploited workers and women for their unequal status relative to men. Goldman attracted large audience who came to his lectures and rallies, This aroused suspicion of the police and secret services Yankees who devoted themselves to pursue, stop and close it in prison many times.

Solidarity with workers constantly denounced the persecution and brutal repression suffered by anarchists who fought for social improvements. Goldman met Pere Esteve anarchist who had fled to America to denounce the torture against the workers of Barcelona arrested after Corpus pump. Goldman and anarchists in the world railed against the new Spanish inquisition.

Goldman jumped fame borders being invited to tour propaganda for Europe, especially, England, France, Austria and Switzerland. Europe had the opportunity to meet the great theorists of anarchism as Kropotkin and Malatesta and writers such as Oscar Wilde.

In 1909 actively participated in events in the United States to denounce the arrest and subsequent execution of Ferrer Guardia. Goldman spread the idea of ​​the Modern School and one of his trip to France visited “The Beehive” free school created by Sebastien Faure. He collaborated shortly after the launch of the Modern School in New York.

Goldman's vitality was not only present in his speeches but also in their way of life without prejudice or false moral, he did say sentences like the following: “If I can not dance, their revolution does not interest me”.

* Fernando Aisa review published in No.. 165 magazine Catalonia

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