Place of the Individual in Society, The (with photograph of Emma Goldman).
Goldman, Emma. Pamphlet: “The Place of the Individual in Society.” [Chicago, Illinois]: [Free Society Forum], [1940].
8vo, 16pp; printed glossy white wrappers (stapled) with photograph of a young Emma Goldman at the front cover; pages are age-toned; last leaf has 1” closed tear outer margin (not effecting text); short tear at one staple.
First edition. Goldman sets out her opposition to dictatorship and Fascism as well as to “parliamentary regimes and so-called political democracy.” She notes that Nazism in particular “has been justly called an attack on civilization.” While many radicals profess sympathy for the Russian Revolution and the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” they prefer the safety and comfort of home. Goldman reiterates that the basis of freedom is the individual, not the state and that the individual’s inherent need for liberty will arouse disobedience, rebellion and revolution where denied. Published in the year of her death, this is one of her key philosophical statements.
Rose Luxemburg And Emma Goldman: A Bibliography, by Joan Nordquist, p. 12.
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