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EMMA GOLDMAN AND THE SOVIETSBy Mary E. MarcyFrom more than one source it has only thought was, NOT of the needs reached our ears that Emma Goldman of society but of whether industryis not at all satisfied with Soviet Russia ami that she yearns for the good old days in America before the war when bored society ladies derived a thrill from hearing her discuss sox problems and advocato “Free love” with the lid off. In those affluent times a lady who disliked to soil her hands with the drudgery of honest toil could always be assured of i group of gushing satellites who were willing to pay for the privilege of being ontertainod.We knew perfectly well when Emma was deported to Russia that she was not going to like it there. For sho never did understand cbe laws underlying historical progress, nor the economic structure of society, nor the evolutionary trend of society. And she hud about as much real use for the working class as John D. Rockefeller or Judge Gary.She does not understand what has happened during the past fivo years nor what is transpiring in the world today, fihe does not really want a workers’ revolution^ and she says that industrial communism is tyranny. Theyielded a sufficient quota of profits for their own personal appropriation. Shops opescd and closed; railroads were built and operated or wcro permitted to fall into disuse, solely on the basis of whether or not they yielded sufficient profits to the cap-1italiBts.And this anarchy in industry, in production and distribution, brought about the great war; killed, off ten million young men nnd maimed ten million more: ravaged whole nationsi and it is this anarchy, planlossness, individualism—run—mad that is to-day causing the collapse of tho world's credit system; causing inflation and rising prices, that is choking off industry. It is anarchy or capitalism which is to day unwillingly digging its own gravo^ destroying the foundation of the existing system and making rovolution as inevitable as the stars in their courses.It was anarchy in production nnd distribution nud in finaneo that caused the collapse of the Czar’s regime’ and that is causing tho disintegration of the civilized world to-day—unbrid-conditions of everybody are too level- clod, capitalist anarchy.led up, as it were. In fact .after noing Roviot Russia during war-time, when tho Russian people are compelled toBut Emma does not know that industry nnd production are annrchistic in Europe and in the United States,sacrifico personal comfort and leisure nor that the credit system bns fniledand tho Arts^ in order to protect themselves from the nrmion of tho capitalist countries of the wholo world, her thoughts turn back longingly to tho ugood old days” that are never coining back, anywhere, anymoro.Emma Goldman does not know that wo have hnd ANARCHY in production for tho past seventy-five years and that, all the conditions of hunger, war, despair, failures of tho credit system^ financial disasters arc but the full fruits and blossoms of the sort of thing sho profcrs to Communism.Far many years in all the modernnor how the workers are exploited. She does not care that world—Capitalism is warring upon Russia and that in the face of the collnpso of the old system tho Russian workers have not hud time to rebuild in peace but arc forced to carry on their educational work and their gTeat plans for socialized industry in the faco of the combined capitalist armies of tho world.All that she seems to bo interested in is tho fact that in Russia people havo lost their old time liberty of being able to graft off tho ignorance of the pcoplo and that sho is in uanarchistic, or capitalistic, countries land where it is necessary to become wo have hnd production begin and a useful citisen or to go hungry.production cease solely at tho dir tat-There aro several kinds of freedomcs of a few owners of industry whono that nobody is able to enjoy in Hus
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The Toiler
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 02, 1920
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