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Marriage and Love (Classic Reprint) Paperback – April 18, 2018

by Emma Goldman (Author)

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I an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting. Its returns are insignificantly small compared with the investments. In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, how ever, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part. Moreover, the marriage insurance condemns her to life-long dependency, to parasitism, to complete uselessness, individual as well as social. Man, too, pays his toll, but as his sphere is wider, marriage does not limit him as much as woman. He feels his chains more in an economic sense.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

That marriage is a failure none but the very stupid will deny. One has but to glance over the statistics of divorce to realize how bitter a failure marriage really is. Nor will the stereotyped Philistine argument that the laxity of divorce laws and the growing looseness of woman account for the fact that: first, every twelfth marriage ends in divorce; second.

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Paperback: 24 pages
Publisher: Forgotten Books (April 18, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1334214271
ISBN-13: 978-1334214271
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
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Cheryl A. Smith

We have come no further in over 100 years

June 1, 2017

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Anarchist is a harsh word for someone who dares speak the truth. Yet, Emma Goldman is an anarchist in a world where control is the norm and freedom but an illusion.

Grounded in fact, poetic in scope

December 18, 2016

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My first real exposure to Goldman, and was not prepared for the poetic heights. Highly recommended, even though some of my friends in the An-Cap side of the debate may differ with some of Goldman's other treatises (and acts).

Marriage and The State

May 6, 2014

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This book is not really a book, more like an essay. The copy I got had Google Docs watermarks on it (suggests it was put together hastily and printed). However the content is good and the print is clear. Overall a great copy of a historical document.

This essay will make you question the very institution of marriage. On ways the state has attributed to the decline of love and why Free Love is the way to go. Any fan of Goldman will enjoy this and if you are a first timer this is a GREAT way to get started before getting any of her other books.

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early feminist socialist essy

January 29, 2014

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This book was written six years before women got voting rights in the U.S., by a feminist author with an anarchist political background. Goldman was ahead of her time as a feminist, belonging less to the first wave of feminists whose main goal was voting rights, and more to the second wave of feminists whose goal was social revolution for equality of women with men, including wider acceptance for women into professions, higher education, and equal pay for equal work. In this piece, she writes that marriage is an artificial institution that benefits mainly patriarchal power structures, and stifles both men and women in their love lives and personal expression. Her arguments and support data give us a strong reminder that just 100 years ago, women were still little better than chattel in North America, though they had entered the workforce of the Industrial Revolution 60 years earlier. She also relates the artificiality and failure of marriage to capitalist economy, which was a central target of her pro-anarchist political activism. Modern readers will recognize her accurate analysis of the ways marriage adversely affects married individuals. It's a quick, easy read and an important piece of feminist history.

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Ahead of her time

May 22, 2013

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This book is incredible! Her ideas are revolutionary and ahead of her time, even ahead of our time. I see marriage in this world is showing more and more contradictions and making lots of troubles. Emma is against marriage, and in favor of love. Like she wrote, love is the greatest gift in the world. We should not let marriage destroy love. I highly recommend this book to everyone who is in favor of love.

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Alanna K Greco-Wright

April 26, 2016

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fantastic view, very inspiring

A short, invigorating read light years ahead of her time

June 21, 2015

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A very short, brilliant and liberating read. Goldman shows the ways in which conventional marriage kills love. Some of these conditions are in the past, but some still prevail, e.g., the convention that one has to get married, and often - that one has to endure a miserable marriage "for the sake of the children".
Way ahead of her time. Curious to read her other works.
Finishing this review with a quote from Emma Goldman:
"If I can't dance, I want no part of your revolution."

John Brandenberger

An early feminist representative of a struggling past.

August 26, 2013

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This book is a historical document for understanding some of the background issues and problems that surround the emergence of the women's rights worldwide. I don't know if all the issues are still relevant but it is certainly a good place to find the seeds that erupted and spawned the movement towards women's rights. I enjoyed the ride.

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Urias the Pious

There are two arguments, if that. The first is that marriage is primarily an economic exchange and the second is that love is antithetical to marriage because marriage prevents a...Read more

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Short and sort of outdated. Of interest to a historian perhaps for the general attitude.

Published on August 3, 2014

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