Going Into Business with Emma Goldman: 18 Anarchist Lessons for Business and Life

Longtime Detroit activists Grace Lee Boggs and Jimmy Boggs once wrote that “A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices.  A revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future.  It begins with projecting the notion of a more human, human being, i.e., a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have—creativity, consciousness, and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.”  Their statement could apply—to a T—to the work of Emma Goldman. More than any other socially conscious thinker of her era, her philosophy did exactly what the Boggses believed was so important—she put forward a positive picture of the future, one in which more “human, human beings,” building on their natural creativity, self-awareness, and sense of responsibility, would and could create a positive future in which everyone comes out ahead.  Although she passed away in 1940 at the age of 71, Emma Goldman’s ideas conti