Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Emma Goldman and Anarchism

Emma Goldman was an anarchist who sort of reminds me of Marcus. She was born in the late 1800's and lived to be about 70. Although it seems that she is not as boastuful, she still worked against the government in order to help Marcus's cause. Anarchism is a philosophy that whatever state the world is in, there should be a stateless government. An anarchy is occuring in "Little Brother", led by the Xnet, M1K3Y, and Trudy Doo. Anarchists also seek to diminish authority. Anarcha-feminism combines anarchy with feminism. It views patriarchy as purely hierarchy. The reason all of this is pertinent to the novel is because currently in the novel it seems that there is a rising revolt against the government's overreach of their authority. All of these ideas are mentioned in order for readers to make connections between Emma Goldman and Marcus. They were both leaders of anarchy, and each had their own causes for their prevalent involvement.

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