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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman >>She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong frie
by CryptoPunk 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman
>>She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate industrialist and financier Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Frick survived the attempt on his life in 1892, and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison
- hutzlibu 7y agoShe also did not condemn the murder of president McKinley. So? Does that invalidate anything of what she wrote?
- rayiner 7y agoWithout delving deeper into the facts, it raises the possibility that what she’s portraying as suppression of free speech and independent thinking is actually a legitimate reaction to someone engaged in criminal activity.
- hutzlibu 7y agoIndividually there were indeed quite some anarchists and communistsengaged in criminal activity. But not at all, all of them. And this is the point: Radical people do want to change the current system completely. But there is a big difference between working on peacefull opposition and organizing in unions for example, than active terrorism. Those raids in the article were targeted on radicals, no matter the criminal activity of them - they targeted simply political opponents. Did raids, beatings and torture without warrants. Eventually deporting. Not really democratic. And when you have the state doing this, than it is hypocrisy for this state to go to war for democracy. And this criticism is valid, even if the person expressing it, did engage in criminal herself earlier in her life.
- claudeganon 7y agoI also remember when Frick was kicked out of the country for having unionists murdered and flooding Johnstown. Oh wait...