![]() Goldman insisted that conformity and policing persisted within radical movements themselves, and radicals were expected to put “the Cause” before their own desires.Ī century later, while the rules may have changed, something still circulates in many political spaces, movements, and milieus, sapping their power from within. This encounter is thought to be the source of the now famous defense of joy and play often attributed to Goldman: “If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution.” This wasn’t just about dancing. Goldman was pissed, and basically told the guy to fuck off. “With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade,” the man told her that “it did not behoove an agitator to dance.” It made the revolutionary movement look bad, he said. More excerpts, reviews, and interviews from the book can be found at .Ī century ago, the famous anarchist Emma Goldman was at a party, dancing her heart out, when a young man took her aside. This essay is based on an excerpt of Joyful Militancy by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery (foreword by Hari Alluri), recently published by AK Press in collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous yet the poison ![]() Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. Relationships that made us sick in the first place? Capitalism, colonialism and heteropatriarchy make us sick.Īre our responses healing us? Are our actions generating wellbeingįor others? Or are we unintentionally reproducing the kind of
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