Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth

By Glassgold, Peter (Ed.)
Counterpoint Press, 2001, Paperback, 464 pp., ISBN: 1582430403, $25.00

This anthology is drawn from the pages of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, America's groundbreaking radical magazine.

It restores to public memory an important body of work-provocative writings by radical thinkers from an anarchist perspective from 1906 to 1917, when it was stifled by wartime censorship.

The journal also advocated action on such topics as women's rights, birth control, civil liberties, and social and economic justice. Glassgold (Angel Max) presents 95 articles, letters, poems, essays, stories, and other pieces from the journal. The articles are arranged in six sections covering anarchism, feminism, literature, civil liberties, social issues, and World War I and the Russian Revolution. Goldman, Max Baginski, Alexander Berkman, Voltairine de Cleyre, Leo Tolstoy, Eugene O'Neill, Kropotkin, Gorky, and Tolstoy; Errico Malatesta and Padraic Colum; and Margaret Anderson, Margaret Sanger, Floyd Dell, Don Marquis, Mabel Dodge, and Louise Bryant are among the wide range of authors featured in this collection, which Glassgold opens with an excellent brief history of the publication. This anthology provides an exceptional presentation of early 20th-century anarchist ideas