Born in the Russian Empire, Emma Goldman emigrated to the United States at sixteen and became a factory worker, then a famous anarchist speaker and editor. She campaigned for free speech, birth control and the rights of workers and women, and was jailed several times. Deported to Russia in 1919, she was quickly disillusioned with the Bolsheviks and spent her last years in exile.
Core ideas
No government, church or property owner has the right to rule over free people
Women's freedom includes love, sexuality and the choice to have children
A revolution that builds a new tyranny has betrayed itself
The tradition: Anarchist
Anarchism seeks a society without the state, built on free cooperation. Goldman gave it a personal and feminist edge, defending the freedom to live and love as much as the freedom to organize.
