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Life of an Anarchist: the Alexander Berkman reader

By Alexander , Berkman

Book information

Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781609800062, 1609800060
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1900014 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Communism

Description

Alexander Berkman was a twentieth-century American revolutionary. Like the abolitionist John Brown before him, Berkman was hugely idealistic, ready to go to the furthest extreme of self-sacrifice and violence on behalf of justice and civil rights. He decided to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after reading in the newspaper that Pinkertons hired by Frick had opened fire on the Homestead strikers, killing men, women, and children. Berkman's bungled attempt cost him fifteen years in a federal penitentiary. Upon his release, he became an effective agitator against conscription and was ag.

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