Emma Goldman

Question 1

What were Emma Goldman’s beliefs of human nature?

Answer 1

Emma Goldman stressed the need for individual liberty, the need for freedom is fundamental to mankind
(thus state should be abolished as it is oppressive and restrains human nature)

Question 2

What were Emma Goldman’s beliefs of the state?

Answer 2

Emma Goldman believed that the state should be abolished since it is a source of oppression and a denial of liberty.
(allowing human nature to flourish since individuals seek freedom and stress individual liberty)

Question 3

What were Emma Goldman’s beliefs of society?

Answer 3

Emma Goldman proposed a society where all people would be treated as equal. She campaigned for economic, gender and racial equality in society
(allowing human nature to flourish as their will be a greater degree of freedom and less inequality)

Question 4

What were Emma Goldman’s beliefs of the economy?

Answer 4

Emma Goldman was a violent opponent of capitalism, she was more concerned with liberty than economic justice, yet was fundamentally a communist.

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