Selected Essays


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Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and Clarence Darrow. After the hanging of the Haymarket protesters in 1887, she became an anarchist. "Till then I believed in the essential justice of the American law of trial by jury," she wrote in an autobiographical essay, "After that I never could." She was known as an excellent speaker and writer – in the opinion of biographer Paul Avrich, she was "a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist" – and as a tireless advocate for the anarchist cause, whose "religious zeal," according to Goldman, "stamped everything she did." (Wikipedia) (0 hr 27 min)

Chapitres

The Dominant Idea 41:52 Lu par Rhonda Federman
Anarchism 50:04 Lu par Rhonda Federman
Anarchism and American Traditions 40:59 Lu par Rhonda Federman
Anarchism in Literature 41:22 Lu par Rhonda Federman
The Making of an Anarchist 20:29 Lu par Philippa
The 11th November 1887 19:27 Lu par Rhonda Federman
Crime and Punishment, part 1 33:51 Lu par Carl Manchester
Crime and Punishment, part 2 34:54 Lu par Carl Manchester
In Defense of Emma Goldman 31:22 Lu par lukkystarr
Direct Action 49:26 Lu par lukkystarr
The Paris Commune 20:49 Lu par Carl Manchester
The Mexican Revolution 38:32 Lu par Sibella Denton
Thomas Paine 17:24 Lu par harsh365
Dyer D. Lum 27:46 Lu par Heather Hogan
Francisco Ferrer 42:16 Lu par Sibella Denton
Modern Educational Reform 40:15 Lu par Philippa
Sex Slavery 31:09 Lu par Kalynda
Literature the Mirror of Man 39:46 Lu par RevRal
The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 1 21:59 Lu par Sibella Denton
The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 2 25:54 Lu par Sibella Denton
They Who Marry Do Ill 35:26 Lu par Rhonda Federman
The Economic Tendency of Freethought 42:10 Lu par lukkystarr

Critiques

A brilliant writer of whom I had not previously been aware.


(5 stars)

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