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Автор: Goldman Emma
Название: Anarchism And Other Essays
ISBN: 9781083163882
Издательство: Independently Published
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1083163884
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 132
Вес: 0.20 кг.
Дата издания: 27.07.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 8
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Some twenty-one years ago I heard the first great Anarchist speaker-the inimitable John Most. It seemed to me then, and for many years after, that the spoken word hurled forth among the masses with such wonderful eloquence, such enthusiasm and fire, could never be erased from the human mind and soul. How could any one of all the multitudes who flocked to Mosts meetings escape his prophetic voice Surely they had but to hear him to throw off their old beliefs, and see the truth and beauty of Anarchism

My one great longing then was to be able to speak with the tongue of John Most, -that I, too, might thus reach the masses. Oh, for the naivety of Youths enthusiasm It is the time when the hardest thing seems but childs play. It is the only period in life worth while. Alas This period is but of short duration. Like Spring, the STURM UND DRANG period of the propagandist brings forth growth, frail and delicate, to be matured or killed according to its powers of resistance against a thousand vicissitudes.My great faith in the wonder worker, the spoken word, is no more. I have realized its inadequacy to awaken thought, or even emotion. Gradually, and with no small struggle against this realization, I came to see that oral propaganda is at best but a means of shaking people from their lethargy: it leaves no lasting impression. The very fact that most people attend meetings only if aroused by newspaper sensations, or because they expect to be amused, is proof that they really have no inner urge to learn. It is altogether different with the written mode of human expression. No one, unless intensely interested in progressive ideas, will bother with serious books. That leads me to another discovery made after many years of public activity. It is this: All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. Already this truth is recognized by most modern educators in relation to the immature mind. I think it is equally true regarding the adult. Anarchists or revolutionists can no more be made than musicians. All that can be done is to plant the seeds of thought. Whether something vital will develop depends largely on the fertility of the human soil, though the quality of the intellectual seed must not be overlooked.

- Taken from Anarchism And Other Essays written by Emma Goldman

Anarchism And Other Essays, Goldman Emma