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Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
retro_gent: "Look what you made us do!" is an old trope of the American left. It was Emma Goldman's response the assassination of President McKinley.
agtgibson: Kropotkin mentions Anabaptists in "Mutual Aid". Don't see them in William Godwin or Emma Goldman. Think this is going to be a new wee genealogy for me to trace down. Radical reformation in anarchist thought.
LogarHailCrom: Here's a portrait of Emma Goldman I did over 10 years ago now.
RuffPhilip: Emma Goldman, drumming-up support for the Spanish anarchists, at a May Day rally in Hyde Park, London, 1937.
RuffPhilip: Emma Goldman speaking at a mass meeting of the CNT/FAI in Barcelona, 1936.
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
filipe14bastos: 5 of 5 stars to Viver a Minha Vida by Emma Goldman
RuffPhilip: Ethel Mannin chairing a meeting at the Conway Hall in London in support of the Spanish anarchist CNT, 1937. Captain Jack White, the Irish anarchist from Antrim is on the left, Emma Goldman is standing on the right.
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HNCAestheticBot: those asshole 420 socialism Emma Goldman
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
intercepts1a: Quote of the day.
"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock." -- Emma Goldman
christi__hannah: Would transition have saved them: Emma Goldman edition
nos4nus: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.--Emma Goldman
dafmontenegro: "If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus."
The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation, Emma Goldman.
Homer, W. (1881). Early Evening.
randomcleyre: In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation
The light is pleasant, is it not, my friends?
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
Chican3ry: Dworkin has a lot of haters for her later activism in the 80s but she and radical feminism started out with revolutionary goals.
Tbh her later cooption into anti trafficking pro state stuff when the opening of this book starts with a quote from Emma Goldman should be a warning.
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
161_BKLYN: Emma Goldman: “I’d rather have roses on my table, than diamonds around my neck.” — basically the rejection of materialism. And many in society will find this to be stupid, and ignorant. While they continue consuming to fill some need they think they’re missing.
samuelwr33: “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” –Emma Goldman
BevKnoxFabulous: If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, be a transaction. --Emma Goldman.
wangubaagu: Still true:
“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
― Emma Goldman
omniharmonic: Noam Chomsky
Terence McKenna
Joanna Macy
Vandana Shiva
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Buckminster Fuller
Wendell Berry
Donella Meadows
Nora Bateson
Angela Davis
David Graeber
George Carlin
Adrienne Marie Brown
bell hooks
Emma Goldman
Julian Assange
Jean Gebser
And the Wachowskis
raised me
intercepts1a: Quote of the day.
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village; stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other." -- Emma Goldman
LWVDC: Peace activist and suffragist Kate O’Hare Cunningham (3.26.1877–1948) was sentenced for 5yr for a speech against WW1, 12.14.I917.
Organizer, feminist, Emma Goldman, was in the next cell, imprisoned for obstructing the draft.
JimBeattie18: Good Morning ☀️
"If I cannot
sing and dance
in your revolution,
then I don't want
to be part of it" (Emma Goldman)
Art: Terpsichore (Hans Hofmann)
MIT_CSAIL: Before GPT-4, there was ELIZA: the computer therapist chatbot written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT’s AI Lab in 1966.
Weizenbaum initially intended to capture & demonstrate shallow communications between machines and humans.
v/Emma Goldman on YouTube
AddyNoSurrender: Reading Emma Goldman (and also some Bookchin) in college resulted in my egg suddenly, quietly cracking while i was alone with my thoughts, just staring out the loop bus window one day.
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
tpmquote: Anarchy stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion, the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of government.--Emma Goldman
Red_Woods_: Why does this glasses/wig combo make me look like Emma Goldman
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
ingelramdecoucy: It speaks volumes about the current messaging abilities of the current Republican Party that they’ve allowed the moral/patriotic high ground to be seized by a political party that spent much of the 20th century lionizing Emma Goldman, Assata Shakur, and the Weather Underground
ingelramdecoucy: It speaks volumes about the messaging abilities of the current Republican Party that they’ve allowed the moral/patriotic high ground to be seized by a political party that spent much of the 20th century lionizing Emma Goldman, Assata Shakur, and the Weather Underground
patbunnybot: He's at the show, talking feminism to get into your pants, oh yeah. Well, he'll quote Emma Goldman but he'll never get up to dance.
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
storeymoorfield: "The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called 'society' or the 'nation,' which is only a collection of individuals."
Emma Goldman • 1869-1940
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
catoletters: "All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them." - Emma Goldman
NumanAfifi: “If I can't dance, it's not my revolution.”
— Emma Goldman
omarslopezarce: “Neither Mussolini nor Hitler have made a single original step. All they had to do is follow and copy faithfully the steps taken by Lenin and Stalin.”
- Emma Goldman
RousselleDuane: Thus, the old expression supposedly attributed to Emma Goldman – ‘if I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution’ – should today read: ‘if I have to dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution.’
Anthro_think: “The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the state is itself the greatest criminal… It has failed utterly to destroy, or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.”
Emma Goldman
weissnatsduvr: Revolution By Murder: Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and the Plot to Kill Henry Clay Frick (Kindle Single) RDAB1UL
flipperedfriend: "People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."
-Emma Goldman
Photo credit: Me
AvaGrac46763969: Don't leave out the fact Sanger was a radical ANARCHIST identical to Antifa who learned her birth control and eugenicist methods from Emma Goldman (a literal terrorist who was deported for terrorism).
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
kjimroglou: ""If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution" -- Emma Goldman
Eskor74: "Anarchism proclaims the possibility of an organization without discipline or fear or punishment and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism that will put an end to the struggle for existence."
Emma Goldman
Psychopomp_Ink: “If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution” — Emma Goldman
Antikalypse: "The individual is the true reality in life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called “society,” or the “nation,” which is only a collection of individuals." - Emma Goldman
tambourine: But also the concept of Emma Goldman as an electoral politician who ends up as FDR’s chief of staff… hmm lol. This book sounds like the flipside of In Paradise in some ways
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
thewholeway: the most violent element in society is ignorance ~ emma goldman
HNCAestheticBot: Stalin Emma Goldman Valorie Keefe in a pile of trash
raheelahsaqib: The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet, how can any one speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?
Emma Goldman
Nerudist: I love when anarchists get racist against asians, it's a time honored tradition since the days of Emma Goldman
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
JacsaLewis: That's right. It was me, I said that to Emma Goldman. Because I was right.
gyeah: "If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution." Emma Goldman
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
Con_politician: From days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxemburg (Germany), Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide revolutionary conspiracy for overthrow of civilization .
SolarDialectics: I think my my Orwell Hater Arch will soon turn into my Emma Goldman Hater Arch......
flakyfarseer: "The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class; the class which robs and exploits the masses, and controls their lives from the cradle to the grave."
~Emma Goldman
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
demnelmedia: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
- Emma Goldman
Mike_Tzu_: “...the majority can’t reason… are not capable of rational discourse especially when it comes to politics... & democracy exploits this; [lack time or mental capacity]... popularity of an idea is not a testament to it’s veracity.” [paraphrase] Emma Goldman
AvaGrac46763969: It's not about the money. It's about ideology. The original propagators of contraception were radical anarchists and socialists who hated America. Emma Goldman taught Margaret Sanger. It's all about destroying the birthrate to destroy capitalism.
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
Wandelakanu_: Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. - Emma Goldman
WakamowBar: Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
MobilizeWeb3: "Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
Emma Goldman
hoofnagle: Also, Emma Goldman---wow! Goldman did a better mugshot than Johnny Cash.
jewishlives: Emma Goldman scoffed at small labor reforms, seeing them as incompatible with total anti-capitalist revolution. Discover her incendiary ideas in “Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life” by Vivian Gornick:
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stellacreasy: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution"
Emma Goldman
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
feedyourhead66: Emma Goldman, Ayn Rand, Carole Pateman, Sandra Harding.
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MaqsoodAsi: "Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism."
Emma Goldman
anarchopac: I quote the dead people I study and specialize in as a historian (which also includes women and Asian anarchists like Emma Goldman and He-Yin Zhen). Obviously it is a mistake to exclusively read dead white men and not also engage with feminism, the black radical tradition etc.
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
SolarpunkA: Lately, seeing all the ✝️s in bios makes me think perhaps New Atheism wasn't such a bad idea.
It would be nice if there were a non-rancid version of it. If atheists took their cues from Emma Goldman instead of Richard Dawkins.
anarxikoikav46: Sandra Oh reads Emma Goldman
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
ErikLoomis: Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman offered to mediate between the workers and the government, but the Soviets had no interest in listening to outside activists, legendary as they may have been.
TESACollective: This quote is often attributed to Emma Goldman. While it wasn't exactly said by her, it was inspired by her.
ErikLoomis: Emma Goldman sharply criticized Trotsky and the Soviet leadership for their actions at Kronstadt, which helped make up her mind to leave the supposed workers’ paradise.
patbunnybot: He's at the show, talking feminism to get into your pants, oh yeah. Well, he'll quote Emma Goldman but he'll never get up to dance.
rocketshiptm: I’m not even a real democrat. Far left. Emma Goldman but more left
reginag81278872: The most violent element in this society is IGNORANCE
-Emma Goldman
MadisonVfp: “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman
Unknownleadere: If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal
--Emma Goldman
ElenaEloizidou3: Comrade Paris Hilton? Redistribution?Emma Goldman showed also a preference to velvet dresses.
birdtrees: "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."- Emma Goldman
libcomorg: Churchill on "International Jews": "From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky, Bela Kun, Rosa Luxembourg, and Emma Goldman, this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation..."
HackneyBooks: New On Hackney Books - Among Barbarians by Emma Goldman
Endeavor To Understand