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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..."

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