Wednesday, January 25, 2012

This first clip is from a movie titled
"An exceedingly dangerous woman" that document the life of Emma Goldman. Very interesting to watch and learn about her background and how she was as a person.
Here is a clip on an interview that Emma did when she was allowed back into the USA after deportation. I think her curtness is due to a dislike of the social media especially because they never displayed her or her cause in a good light.

My favorite quote from Emma Goldman's The Psychology of Political Violence:

"The most noted writers and poets, discussing the psychology of political offenders, have paid them the highest tribute. Could anyone assume that these men had advised violence, or even approved of the acts? Certainly not. Theirs was the attitude of the social student, of the man who knows that beyond every violent act there is a vital cause". (Goldman 2) To Emma violence was necessary during her time when there were injustice in the political system. If violence was going to be used to achieve a political cause that one believed in that could change people lives for the better than she condoned the use. I cant disagree with her there, if it truly is going to benefit lives and nonviolence in not working or would not work in the situation then a small scale of violence could be tried.

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