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U.S. $22.95 Political Science anarchy ! Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s MOTHER EARTH (1906–1918) is the first An A n t hol o g y collection of work drawn from the pages of the foremost anarchist journal published in America—provocative writings by Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, and dozens of other radical thinkers of the early twentieth cen- tury. For this expanded edition, editor Peter Glassgold contributes a new preface that offers historical grounding to many of today’s political movements, from liber- tarianism on the right to Occupy! actions on the left, as well as adding a substantial section, “The Trial and Conviction of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman,” which includes a transcription of their eloquent and moving self-defense prior to their imprisonment and deportation on trumped-up charges of wartime espionage. of E m m A g ol dm A n’s Mot h er ea rt h “An indispensable book . a judicious, lively, and enlightening work.” —Paul Avrich, author of Anarchist Voices “Peter Glassgold has done a great service to the activist spirit by returning to print Mother Earth’s often stirring, always illuminating essays.” —Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen “It is wonderful to have this collection of pieces from the days when anarchism was an ism— and so heady a brew that the government had to resort to illegal repression to squelch it. What’s more, it is still a heady brew.” —Kirkpatrick Sale, author of The Dwellers in the Land “Glassgold opens with an excellent brief history of the publication. This anthology provides an exceptional presentation of early 20th-century anarchist ideas.” —Stephan L. Hupp, Library Journal (starred review) “What a marvelous sampling of the complex and vibrant political culture of the anarchist AN ANTHOLOGY circle drawn together in Emma Goldman’s magazine . Sure to become a classic.” OF —Candace Falk, Editor/Director, The Emma Goldman Papers, EMMA University of California, Berkeley GOLDMAN’S Peter Glassgold has judiciously sifted out hundreds of pages of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth, written a luminous introduction that places them in context, added commentary that guides MOTHER readers with a light hand through the topical parts to individual pieces, and then rounded E ARTH off this labor of love with a reader-friendly analytical index that is a treasure in itself.” —Richard Drinnon, author of Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman EDITED and with PETER GLASSGOLD, novelist and literary translator, was an editor at New Directions COMMENTARY from 1970 to 2005. He lives in upstate New York. by Portrait of Emma Goldman ISBN 978-1-61902-021-4 by the Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis, 1912. 5 2 2 9 5 PETER Cover design by Michael Kellner GLASSGOLD COUNTERPOINT www.counterpointpress.com 9 781619 020214 Distributed by Publishers Group West EditEd and with CommEntAry by PETER GLASSGOLD New aNd expaNded editioN ANARCHY! Also by Peter Glassgold AUTHOR (FICTION) The Angel Max (1998) lk EDITOR James Laughlin, Byways: A Memoir (2005) Living Space: Poems of the Dutch Fiftiers (1979; rev. ed., with Douglas Messerli, 2005) New Directions in Prose & Poetry, joint editor with James Laughlin, nos. 25–55 (1972–91) lk EDITOR/TRANSlaTOR Boethius: The Poems from On the Consolation of Philosophy, Translated out of the original Latin into diverse historical Englishings diligently collaged (1994) Hwaet! A Little Old English Anthology of American Modernist Poetry (1985; rev. ed., 2012) lk TRANSlaTOR Hans Deichmann, Objects: A Chronicle of Subversion in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, translated with Peter Constantine, from the German (1997) Stijn Streuvels, The Flaxfield, translated, with André Lefevere, from the Dutch (1989) ANARCHY! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s MOTHER EARTH NEW AND EXPANDED EDITION lk edited and with commentary by Peter Glassgold counterpoint berkeley Copyright © 2001, 2012 Peter Glassgold “Portrait of Emma Goldman by the Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis, 1912” (Cover and illustration 1, following page 220) is reproduced courtesy of the Leon Malmed Papers, The Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. “Ben L. Reitman with Anna Baron in the Mother Earth office, 20E ast 125th Street, c. 1916” (Illustration 3, following page 220) is reproduced courtesy of the Newspaper Enterprise Associa tion/Cleveland Public Library. All rights reserved under international and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available. isbn 978-1-61902-021-4 Cover design by Domini Dragoon Interior design by Amy Evans McClure Printed in the United States of America counterpoint 1919 Fifth Street Berkeley, California 94710 www.counterpointpress.com Printed in the United States of America Distributed by Publishers Group West 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Suzanne and to the memory of Paul Avrich CONTENTS Preface xi Introduction: The Life and Death of Mother Earth xvii PART ONE : A NARCHISM EDITor’s NOTE 3 Some Definitions 5 The “Criminal Anarchy” Law 6 Without Government, by Max Baginski 8 Alexander Berkman, by Emma Goldman 14 Leon Czolgosz, by Max Baginski 16 McKinley’s Assassination from the Anarchist Standpoint, by Voltairine de Cleyre 22 Violence and Anarchism, by Alexander Berkman 26 Anarchism and American Traditions, by Voltairine de Cleyre 29 Francisco Ferrer, by Emma Goldman 41 Anarchist Symposium: Kropotkin 44 Long Live Anarchy! by Hippolyte Havel 49 The Pioneer of Communist Anarchism in America, by Max Baginski 53 Voltairine de Cleyre, by Alexander Berkman 57 The Causes of the Chicago Martyrdom, by Alexander Berkman 59 The Paris Commune, by Voltairine de Cleyre 63 Michael Bakunin (1814–1914), by Max Baginski 69 Mutual Aid: An Important Factor in Evolution, by Peter Kropotkin 72 Dynamite! by Charles Robert Plunkett 75 Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?—Both, by Max Nettlau 79 Emma Goldman in Chicago, by Margaret Anderson 84 The Philosophy of Atheism, by Emma Goldman 88 PART TWO : T HE W OMAN Q UESTION EDITor’s NOTE 97 Modesty, by Margaret Grant 99 They Who Marry Do Ill, by Voltairine de Cleyre 103 The White Slave Traffic, by Emma Goldman 113 The Sterilization of the Unfit,by Peter Kropotkin 120 Feminism in America, by R.A.P. 124 Three Letters and a Vindication, by Margaret Sanger 126 A Letter from Margaret Sanger (I) 127 Not Guilty! 130 To My Friends 132 A Letter from Margaret Sanger (II) 133 The Social Aspects of Birth Control, by Emma Goldman 134 Reflections on Emma Goldman’s Trial, by Leonard D. Abbott 140 The Woman Suffrage Chameleon, by Emma Goldman 144 PART THREE : L ITERATURE EDITor’s NOTE 151 The Song of the Storm-Finch, by Maxim Gorky (Alice Stone Blackwell, translator) 153 Comrade, by Maxim Gorky (S. Persky, translator) 154 Fifty Years of Bad Luck, by Sadakichi Hartmann 159 The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), A Recension by Veritas 164 Henrik Ibsen, by Georg Brandes 168 The Bomb (Frank Harris), by Alexander Berkman 174 The Woman and the Poet, by Floyd Dell 179 Comstock Soliloquizes, by Don Marquis 183 The Dominant Idea, by Voltairine de Cleyre 185 Martin Eden (Jack London), by Hippolyte Havel 196 The “American Sovereign,” [by Eugene O’Neill ] 199 Freedom, by Lola Ridge 200 Prison Memoirs (Alexander Berkman), by Bayard Boyesen 202 My Belovèd, by Mabel Dodge 205 The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), by Hippolyte Havel 206 The Feast of Belshazzar, by Voltairine de Cleyre 211 To Our Martyred Dead, by Adolf Wolff 212 Voltairine de Cleyre’s Posthumous Book, by Leonard D. Abbott 214 Flowers and Ashes, by Louise Bryant 218 The Mob, by Ben Hecht 221 PART FOUR : C IVI L L IBERTIES EDITor’s NOTE 227 Three Portraits of St. Anthony 229 The Confiscated Picture 230 Anthony B. Comstock’s Adventures, by Max Baginski 233 Recent Adventures of St. Anthony, by Max Baginski 235 Prisons and Crime, by Alexander Berkman 237 The Fight for Free Speech, by Ben L. Reitman 243 The Philadelphia Farce, by Voltairine de Cleyre 246 On Liberty, by Voltairine de Cleyre 252 L’École Rénovée, by Francisco Ferrer 257 The Need of Translating Ideals into Life, by Alexander Berkman 265 The Respectable Mob, by Ben L. Reitman 269 Prisons: Universities of Crime, by Peter Kropotkin 274 Tannenbaum before Pilate, by Alexander Berkman 277 A New Adventure in Arcadia, by Louise Bryant 281 The Case of Mooney and Billings 285 Legal Assassination, by Alexander Berkman 286 A Lynch Jury in San Francisco Convicts Thomas Mooney 290 PART FIVE : T HE S OCIA L W AR EDITor’s NOTE 295 Aim and Tactics of the Trade-Union Movement, by Max Baginski 297 A Study of the General Strike in Philadelphia, by Voltairine de Cleyre 307 Everlasting Murder, by Max Baginski 312 The Source of Violence, by Alexander Berkman 315 The Mexican Revolution, by Voltairine de Cleyre 318 The Commune of Paris, by Peter Kropotkin 333 The Movement of the Unemployed, by Alexander Berkman 338 Remember Ludlow! by Julia May Courtney 344 Donald Vose: The Accursed, by Emma Goldman 347 On the Death of James Connolly and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, by Padraic Colum 352 PART SIX : W AR AND P EACE i’s n 357 National Atavism, by Internationalist 359 Enough of Illusions! by Peter Kropotkin 365 America and Russia, by Leo Tolstoy 370 War and the Anarchist Schism 373 Kropotkin on the Present War, by Peter Kropotkin 374 In Reply to Kropotkin, by Alexander Berkman 380 Observations and Comments 382 International Anarchist Manifesto on the War 385 Italy Also! by Errico Malatesta 388 The War at Home 391 The Promoters of the War Mania, by Emma Goldman 392 The No-Conscription League, by Emma Goldman 398 Speaking of Democracy, by Martha Gruening 400 The Russian Revolution 405 The Russian Revolution, by Emma Goldman 406 The Trotsky Idea, by Alexander Berkman 409 The Surgeon’s Duty, by Alexander Berkman 411 Appendix The Trial and Conviction of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, by Leonard D.