What I believe

Written in 1906 for the New York World, this essay is Emma Goldman in her own voice not the caricature conjured by a hostile press, but the thinker herself, setting out with clarity and conviction exactly what she stands for. Goldman takes on each pillar of her ANARCHIST PHILOSOPHY n turn. The coercion she sees built into property and the state; the moral bankruptcy of militarism; the case for free speech as an absolute; and her RADICAL RETHINKING of marriage, religion, and political violence. Above all, she makes the argument that anarchism is a philosophy of peace not the bomb throwing nihilism of popular myth, but a vision of human beings freed from oppressive institutions and capable of genuine solidarity.