Emma Goldman
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Omow and Landow (New York) "Portrait Emma Goldman" From Goldman-archive XXI. hosted by [International Institute of Social History]A version of this image was hosted by the Berkeley library Goldman papers collection. Now it is available through the [wayback machinie]
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Zinn features Goldman in his People's History. Goldman and Berkman were somehow both "long-time revolutionary stalwarts" and representatives "of the next generation." Haymarket was the start of Goldman's radicalization. This was inflamed during Homestead leading to Berkman's attempt on Frick. Zinn's review of Living My Life "anger...injustice...desire...that grew among the young radicals of that day."
Zinn describes a New York incident where Goldman was "inciting [children] to riot" by stealing food from the stores. She was punished with two years in prison at Blackwell's Island. The thirteenth chapter about Socialism starts with a long Goldman quote about the Spanish American War. This was a capitalist war to protect the price of sugar.
Zinn's Goldman was "skeptical" about women's suffrage. She favored contraception, abortion, and "self-assertation." She was imprisoned under Comstock for distributing birth control literature. She was deported under the Espionage Act for opposing the draft. The deportations followed a bombing of Palmer's home "[s]ix months after that bomb exploded, Palmer carried out the first of his mass raids on aliens---immigrants who were not citizens." December 21 1919...Goldman other aliens were put "on a transport" and "deported...." Zinn states that this was possible because of the 1892 Chinese Exclusion Act which allowed "as a mater of self-preservation" in the face of Chinese immigration. Zinn compares Goldman and Helen Keller. The two are for women's liberation and skeptical that it comes only from suffrage.
Bucklin's American Experience video tries to balance Goldman's violent anarchist media persona and her personal advocacy for human rights. Both Bucklin and Zinn, describe Goldman as a Lithuanian born to a secular Jewish family in Knaunas, 1869. She was an immigrant to America which is why she was deported during the Palmer Raids. Her stateless anarchist ideology was probably informed by the historical dislocation of her birthplace. It has been ruled (annexed or destroyed) by the USSR, Nazi Germany, Russian Empire and Napoleonic France. The last time Lithuania had home rule was as part of the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth (1569-1795). Deporting her to the Baltic States annexed by the Soviet Union confuses jurisdiction, sovereignty and citizinship.