Freedom And Revolution

Part I of Essay
In 1922 Emma Goldman complained Soviet Russia, had become the modern socialist Lourdes, to which the blind and the lame, the deaf and the dumb were flocking for miraculous cures(1). The Russian Revolution was the first occasion where decades of revolutionary ideas could be ....

Part II of Essay
.... What is meant by 'socialism'? The classic definition is that of society run according to the dictum from each according to his/her ability, to each according to his/her needs. To anarchists, material equality is one dimension to socialism, but there is another of equal importance, that of freedom. The world has enough wealth to provide for all our material comforts. Socialism seeks to liberate people from the constant worries about mortgages or landlords, the rising cost of living and the numerous other issues, trivial yet vital tha ....