“Iwe hure rakashata reanarchist. Ndinoshuva kuti dai ndasvika pauri. Ndingabvarura mwoyo wako ndoupa imbwa yangu.” Iri raive rimwe remameseji anonyadzisira akagashirwa naEmma Goldman (1869-1940), ari mutirongo achifungirwa kupindirana mukupondwa kwaMcKinley. Mukadzi ane mukurumbira wakashata zvikurusa wezuva rake, akanga achivengwa zvikuru nemamiriyoni uye achiremekedzwa zvakaenzana nemamiriyoni.
Manzwiro akasimba aakamutsa anonzwisisika. Aive mutorwa, aidzidzira kumukirana, mupanduki wevashandi, murwiri wemhirizhonga muHondo Yenyika I, mutsigiri wemhirizhonga yezvematongerwo enyika, mumiriri wevakadzi, mutsigiri werudo rwemahara nekudzora kuzvara, mukomunisiti, murwi wemumugwagwa wekururamisira - zvese izvi. akadaro aine njere dzakasimba uye nechido chisina muganhu. Nhasi, chokwadika, nyaya dzakawanda dzaakarwisana nadzo dzinokosha sezvadzaingoita makore 75 apfuura.
Emma Goldman akabva Rashiya pazera remakore 17. Mushure mekusangana neve sweat shop uye muchato unosuruvarisa, akapinda mumhirizhonga inokatyamadza yepfungwa uye yevaratidziri iyo yakapinda muAmerican social evolution mukutanga kwezana ramakore. Ainyatsoziva munhu wese akakosha mumakwikwi akadzama. Akatonga nzvimbo zhinji dzeiyo radical movement, kudzidzisa, kunyora, haranguing, uye kushambadza kumutsa nyika kumazano ake. Pashure peHondo Yenyika I akadzingwa Rashiya, kwaakabva aona kuti vanarchist vakanga vasingadiwe zviri nani pane kupinda America, pasinei nekuita kwekutanga kwaLenin kwekugamuchira. Akapukunyuka neupenyu hwake, asi haana kuzombobvumirwa kudzokerazve nyika dzakabatana.
Emma Goldman was a devastatingly honest woman, who spared herself as little as she spared anyone else. From her account the reader can gain insight into the curious personality type of recurrent interest: a woman who devoted her life to erase suffering, yet could make a bomb or assist in staging an assassination. Equally interesting are her comments on other radicals of the period, such as Kropotkin, Berkman. Mooney, Lenin, Trotsky, Haywood, Most, the Haymarket martyrs and many others. Her autobiography, written with vigor, ranks among the finest in English