Tom - To paraphrase Emma Goldman "I don't want to be in your revolution if the happiness of the whole and not the luxuries of a few is not in your program"
I would paraphrase what Emma Goldman says a little differently: Demanding an end to patriarchal oppression, the anarchist jokes she is not a nun, that her revolution will have dancing and consensual sex. from Emma Goldman's autobiography: Living My Life "At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to becoming a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would hurt the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown in my face I did not believe that a Cause that stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause should not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40208): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40208 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117299298/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
