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Selected Essays

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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) (0 hr 27 min)

Chapters

The Dominant Idea

41:52

Read by Rhonda Federman

Anarchism

50:04

Read by Rhonda Federman

Anarchism and American Traditions

40:59

Read by Rhonda Federman

Anarchism in Literature

41:22

Read by Rhonda Federman

The Making of an Anarchist

20:29

Read by Philippa

The 11th November 1887

19:27

Read by Rhonda Federman

Crime and Punishment, part 1

33:51

Read by Carl Manchester

Crime and Punishment, part 2

34:54

Read by Carl Manchester

In Defense of Emma Goldman

31:22

Read by lukkystarr

Direct Action

49:26

Read by lukkystarr

The Paris Commune

20:49

Read by Carl Manchester

The Mexican Revolution

38:32

Read by Sibella Denton

Thomas Paine

17:24

Read by harsh365

Dyer D. Lum

27:46

Read by Heather Hogan

Francisco Ferrer

42:16

Read by Sibella Denton

Modern Educational Reform

40:15

Read by Philippa

Sex Slavery

31:09

Read by Kalynda

Literature the Mirror of Man

39:46

Read by RevRal

The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 1

21:59

Read by Sibella Denton

The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 2

25:54

Read by Sibella Denton

They Who Marry Do Ill

35:26

Read by Rhonda Federman

The Economic Tendency of Freethought

42:10

Read by lukkystarr

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