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#200 – Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Anarchism - Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman

In contrast to Tolstoy, let me ask you about Emma Goldman. What ideas define her flavor of anarchism would you say? Emma was really an old school radical. She was a radical among radicals. There's the violence. I mean, she was more open to the idea of violent opposition versus something like Tolstoy. It's very easy to glamorize violence and regard it as admirable or heroic. But if you take it out of the romanticism,. you're killing someone with a family. This song sings its own hard but this is a very dangerous road.

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