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Selected Essays

Selected Essays

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Number of Chapters: 22

Length: 12 hours and 27 minutes

Language: English

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)

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The Dominant Idea (Rhonda Federman)
Anarchism (Rhonda Federman)
Anarchism and American Traditions (Rhonda Federman)
Anarchism in Literature (Rhonda Federman)
The Making of an Anarchist (Philippa)
The 11th November 1887 (Rhonda Federman)
Crime and Punishment, part 1 (Carl Manchester)
Crime and Punishment, part 2 (Carl Manchester)
In Defense of Emma Goldman (lukkystarr)
Direct Action (lukkystarr)
The Paris Commune (Carl Manchester)
The Mexican Revolution (Sibella Denton)
Thomas Paine (harsh365)
Dyer D. Lum (Heather Hogan)
Francisco Ferrer (Sibella Denton)
Modern Educational Reform (Philippa)
Sex Slavery (Kalynda)
Literature the Mirror of Man (RevRal)
The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 1 (Sibella Denton)
The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 2 (Sibella Denton)
They Who Marry Do Ill (Rhonda Federman)
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (lukkystarr)
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