Emma Goldman sure loved advocating popular ideas didn't she? A feminist, socialist, and anarchist in the early 20th century. The girl has brass buttons.
She speaks as if removing these three things will lead to the perfection of the human race: government, religion, and property. For some reason I think this lady was crazy. I agree on the point that religion is a little whacked out. The idea of fighting wars over a "God" which may, or may not exist is a little out there. The crusades created a rift between Christians and Muslims for centuries. The Hindus hate Sheiks and Muslims. Thank god the Buddhists are around to like everybody or every religion would have conflicting interests. But religion does serve good in the fact that it creates a system of morals for children to be raised on and adults to follow. So religion is not a complete debacle.
Gov't does restrict persons ability to freely do, well a lot of things. But without these restrictions think about what life would be like. No law against killing, you walk into a store, rob the cash register, kill the clerk, and make off with the dough. Without any pigs or laws, you are very likely to get away. Who is going to stop you? A civilian that had no stake in the store?
Finally property. Same scenario as above. You go to sleep at night in your home and wake up in the morning with five homeless people sleeping all over your house. There are no definitions of property so those homeless peeps are not in the wrong.
Anarchism is a far flung idea that would not work unless everyone in the world thought and felt the same way about...... basically everything. (Kinda like communism.)
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