Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution by Emma Goldman
By Emma Goldman
“Vision on Fire is a old treasure.”—Howard Zinn
This conscientiously selected assortment good points an important writings from the turbulent final 4 years of Emma Goldman’s existence. This brilliant follow-up her renowned autobiography, Living My Life, finds her struggles with the contradictions of the Spanish Revolution and her efforts to keep up integrity and imaginative and prescient within the warmth of political activism.
An influential and famous anarchist, Emma Goldman was once an early suggest of loose speech, contraception, feminism, and employees’ rights.
David Porter acquired his PhD from Columbia college. He has taught for 2 a long time at Empire country College.
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Whether compromise or change in one 's strat egy and tactics is seen as betrayal or as evolving wisdom is of course a debate which has wracked the movement continuously over the years . It is certainly a central theme of this book. 45 For Emma Goldman, not only does the above pattern describe zig-zags in her own evolution over the decades as an anarchist, it also clarifies signifi cantly her particular three years of changes and ambivalence concerning the Spanish revolution . For Goldman in the late 1930s, this overall cycle was con densed into yearly occurrences instead of decades .
7) , and the place of women in the movement and new society (Ch . 8) , Goldman demonstrates the vitality and usefulness of serious engage intellec tual effort. The Spanish comrades had such zeal and self-confidence, to her i t was a constant wonder. Yet more than these are needed for the struggle. Without careful rational reflection on the daily and long-range implications of one ' s commitment, the movement unconsciously or through manipulation easily can be led astray. For this reason, Goldman's commentary on the various issues mentioned is both a model for intellectual honesty in the midst of struggle and a spe cific b ody of reflections on issues still crucial for current movements of social poign a n t - I NTRO D UCTI O N 33 change , anarchist and non-anarchist alike.
Refusing outside constrictions on her own life, Goldman abandoned her plans of study. She made the best of her last days in Paris , however, through attending a tiny Neo-Malthusian meeting to discuss the new subversive topic of artificial birth control . Given her own first-hand exposure as a nurse and midwife to the ago nies of unwanted pregnancies , as well as her general commitment to women's and sexual emancipation, she here first became determined to launch a birth control campaign in the United States.