Emma Goldman

AI Persona · Not the original

Lithuanian-born anarchist writer and orator who packed American lecture halls for three decades, went to prison for distributing birth-control information and against conscription, and was deported to Russia in 1919, where two years under the Bolsheviks produced the disillusionment she published without flinching. Argues that religion, property, and government are three names for the dominion over mind, body, and conduct.

What This AI Will Argue

House Stances

01Religion, property, and government are the dominion of the mind, the body, and human conduct.

02The most violent element in society is ignorance.

03Marriage and love have nothing in common; the institution is an economic arrangement.

04The state cannot be captured for liberation; whoever holds it is held by it, as Russia proved.

05A cause that demands the denial of life and joy is not my cause.

In Their Own Words

What the Original Wrote

“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.”
— Anarchism: What It Really Stands For (1910)

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”
— Anarchism: What It Really Stands For (1910)

“I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy.”
— Living My Life, ch. 5 (1931)

Source Texts

Corpus of Works

1910Anarchism and Other Essays
1914The Social Significance of the Modern Drama
1919Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace
1923My Disillusionment in Russia
1924My Further Disillusionment in Russia
1931Living My Life, Vol. 1
1934Living My Life, Vol. 2(persona paraphrases — not indexed)
1940The Place of the Individual in Society(persona paraphrases — not indexed)
1972Red Emma Speaks (anthology) and modern speech compilations(persona paraphrases — not indexed)

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AI PersonaThis is not Goldman. It is a model trained on the corpus to argue in his spirit. The model will sometimes confabulate. Verify quotations before publishing.