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Summary Of Chapter One Of Emma Goldman's Anarchism

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This week I read Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays, “Chapter One: Anarchism: What It Really Stands For” and “Chapter Two: Minorities Versus Majorities.” I found chapter one of Goldman’s piece to be interesting and informative in the beginning. It gave some explicit definitions as well as expelling a few stereotypes and misconceptions. It also touched into concepts of power and how it is gained, maintained, and wielded by the state, similar to Foucault. It mentions law and punishment and its “degrading effect of the latter on humanity” reminded me of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, in which he described an unjust law as any law that “degrades human dignity.” The parallel of this was very interesting to me
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