Sandra Oh reads Emma Goldman

[@alasbarricadas8852]

14 May 2014....74 years after Emma Goldman died...she lives into our souls..thank you Emma from a human being from Greece

[@twicitwici1251]

9th september 2019... And we still haven't forget her

[@alexrsuarez1]

powerful, she was ahead of her time, so reminiscent of our times, long live the goldmans of the world!

[@odatmatt]

I wish that she had read the entire speech! Look it up and read it, And for those that don't like her find someone that can read it to you!

[@jackmclean4120]

Emma Goldman was born 152 years ago on the 27th of June, 1869, and died at the age of 70 on the 14th of May, 1940. She had dedicated her life to promoting the causes of Anarchism and Feminism, and bravely opposing oppression of minorities, capitalism, militarism and the state. Rest in peace, Miss Goldman.

[@RedAthena1919]

Wow, Sandra Oh was quite magnificent there. Very impassioned, very convincing. Ofcourse, she had good material to work from. Goldman was a genius.

[@ramberghini]

Emma Goldman has got to be my favorite anarchist thinker.

[@fighttheevilrobots3417]

Monday March 30th, 2020. You are still correct Emma Goldman.

[@Deulineum]

@DeviX03 Incorrect. In Africa, complex surgeries were performed before Europeans had a concept of disease.

[@cykate]

just hearing her read is heaven, her voice is so powerful, i cant hear anything else but her, wow! by the way, anyone know what jacket she's wearing?

[@Frog869]

i've watched this five times now, and i can't understand why.

[@fighttheevilrobots3417]

Because you know you should revolt. Don't be afraid. It's time.

[@giannis5250]

Soviet Russia is falsely considered a communist regime. Communism is the goal both anarcho-communists and supporters of marxism-leninism want to reach using different means. One of the main differences between anarchists and marxists is how to reach communism. What I am trying to make clear is the actual meaning of communism, whether leninism or marxism works or not is a much more complicated issue than just saying Soviet Union turned to a totalitarian regime and collapsed.

[@WillScarlet16]

"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it" - George Bernard Shaw.

[@bapyou]

@zapatista77 I was replying to someone else's comment. I certainly have a basic understanding of anarchist thought. Emma Goldman is one of my heroes. She was a feminist decades before the word came into common usage. Cheers.

[@WMUnited]

Emma you were the most intelligent human being... we need you.

[@mb1412]

One of the great things about this video is that Sandra Oh is Canadian

[@redwoodrebelgirl3010]

Ok.

[@mrtyles]

@eboyd32 there's also the recovered factory movement in argentina, where workers are taking over the factories there.

[@OddHarvey]

My wife’s obsession with grey’s anatomy drives me crazy (hyperbole) but I’m now a fan of Dr. Yang.

[@Triplezero13999]

@hint0122 Define treason? Is is treason to want peace? Is it treason to want a world in which nations solve problems through words instead of weapons? Is it treason a belief that all people are connected regardless of border, nation, color, or class?

[@fede2]

absolutely beautiful.

[@chelofacio98]

Who recorded this? I want to use a small part of the speech in a song. Thanks!

[@Aidyn3000]

This speech is fucking ace! Emma Goldman was an awesome human being.

[@natgus1]

You are completely right in your definition of communism... but, see how it turned out to be... Russia, China... eventually, it was not a dictatorship of the wealthy, but a dictatorship of the members of the PARTY, the only one authorised in these countries. Anarchism, the one Emma Goldmann believed in, is something quite different. It is much closer to Gandhi than it is to Lenin.

[@SejinPAK]

East Asia (Japan, both Koreas, and China) needs Emma Goldman.

[@hint0122]

i am still waiting. would you honestly compare robert hanssen to george washington?

[@RaySuburbia407]

good point. what native american tribe are you from?

[@johnclark1146]

Sandra Oh is great

[@john5o]

the fact is we have to defend ourselves but it would be better if we did not have to that takes the other side to teach their children not to go to war as well as ourselves. She was right though and this centuary proves it

[@AgentStansfield]

My whole point was that this country has given much to millions of people including myself, as much as others point their fingers at the negative and lambast its faults. I have every right to defend the United States and I fail to see what gives them the right to defame and stand against it.

[@celticlord88]

Emma Goldman is my hero and i'm not being cliche.

[@jaminunit]

@eboyd32 anarcho-capitalist is not a contradiction of terms. your labour creates things or services that you are free to trade.

[@SejinPAK]

... "Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels," said Dr. Samuel Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman. ...

[@milascave2]

How little has changed.

[@hint0122]

here is a better question. name any Anarchism movement that worked

[@bapyou]

@hint0122 You didn't answer my question. And, for your information, Emma Goldman (the subject of this video) was an anarchist. Anarchists are freedom's true expositors. As a true expositor of freeedom, the American government does what it always does when confronted with such a vital human being: They banished her. Goldman wound up in Russia just a few years after the revolution and she found Lenin had imprisoned 1000s of Russian anarchists. So you do not have a leg to stand on with me.

[@smellincoffee]

@hint0122 That is anarchy is the casual, sloppy use only.

[@nickglais]

Excellent

[@6sully8391]

I want to know where all the Anarchists are today...

[@jimbobeire]

For something to be defamatory it must be untrue, not just unflattering. I notice from my travels that the countries most 'patriotic' tend to be the ones that have to do the most mental gymnastics to explain all their overseas killing. I'm well aware of the evils of my governments past and present, and it helps me to push for change. Denial is not constructive.

[@MannoMagic]

Your comment is no spam

[@23lFrench]

@chrispollock As long as people have that us vs them mentality, America can start more wars and cause much more controversy than they would of been able to if their wasn't such a "proud to be an American" thing going on.

[@elohelreh]

that was great!!! *researching Goldman*

[@violadude0987]

HEY! It's the girl from Grey's anatomy!

[@TheJesperL]

Emma Goldman was, as most (or at least a great deal of) anarchists are, an anarcho-communist. Communism is not devotation to the state, but Marx and Engels thought a "dictatorship of the proletariat" necessary to reach pure communism, which is stateless. Anarcho-communists, on the other hand, do not believe that a totalitarian state is needed to reach a state-less socialism. Anarcho-communism wants a society free from hierarchy, and where people only work when needed (and for that it is needed).

[@Pervyable]

@razamataz45 Can you seriously not see a difference between not supporting mass slaughter, and supporting targeted violence against people who you see as opressors? I don't agree with Goldmans views on the subject myself but it doesn't take much to see that theres a wide expanse of difference between the two. Unless of course one is trying to use cheap rhetorcial shots to make a point instead of making criticisms of actual substance.

[@hint0122]

so says you. wouldnt you say that what they did has helped everyone?

[@lzf1]

Truth !!!! Jan Luke & family.XX

[@hint0122]

you didnt answer the question. do you really think that just getting rid of aall forms of government will help anyone?

[@bapyou]

@razamataz45 "Denouncing violence and then resorting to it when it achieves your ends is hypocrisy of the highest order." You should tell that to the American government, whom -- we are endlessly told -- go around the world spreading peace and democracy. Goldman was not a fraud. The true frauds are capitalist governments whose pronouncements are composed of complete falsehoods and outright lies. "Patriotism is nothing more than the organized interests of the ruling class." - Bakunin

[@hint0122]

no, like the people who pass along secrets. would you honestly compare robert hanssen to george washington?

[@mikemat3307]

@hint0122 "here is a better question. name any Anarchism movement that  worked" Why? "anarchists can and have do just as much damage as any goverment. look at Somalia." You confuse anarchy with lawlessness. In an anarchic society, there would still be laws and social institutions. What an anarchic society would lack, is a coercive governemnt, or "State". There are many, many different forms of anarchy. In contemporary terms, anarchy means "stateless". You need to do some research.

[@cheval572]

The USA did not intervene in WWI until 1917, this after the sinking of the Luxury Liner "Lusitania" by Germany.

[@boumar19721972]

Yes and yes. Better than glorifying corporatism!

[@thultner]

@HerrSpieldose ... You wrong, buddy.

[@NearlyH3adlessNick]

@6sully8391 Look around...We are small in Number but we are here. I am forced into the shadows in my hometown, but here i can preache and inform. We are oppressed, but like a caged monster, we bide our time,biting offthe hands that come to close and waiting for the cage door to open...

[@hint0122]

My uncle served his tour in Vietnam, and came home to be spit on and called a baby killer by “peace activists.”

[@itowedin]

Well said. I would add that the literature is almost taken out of context for the sake of metaphorical satire. We get it...You don't like war / republicans.

[@emncaity]

@6sully8391 They're in the corporate boardrooms. Where else? Actually, I take that back. They're for government, all right--for government stacking the deck.

[@zacks.4378]

Crying

[@bapyou]

@hint0122 "russia got what they deserved. they traded one nad leader for a worse system." What's a "nad" leader? #2. If by "worse system" you are referring to Soviet communism, to which period of Soviet communism do you refer?

[@AgentStansfield]

I never said I was from any native American tribe, nor did I claim America was my ancestral home. It is, as I stated, my country of birth and has been so with my family for the last 5 generations and it is my homeland because it is the country in which I was born, raised, claim citizenship in and swear allegiance and devotion to. Before you respond to an old comment in an attempt to be condescending or avant-garde you should take a closer study of what you're responding to.

[@hint0122]

why? if you cant name one that worked, then why is it a workable system? if there is no goverment, who makes the laws, and enforces them?

[@Triplezero13999]

@hint0122 The peace activists were misguided, in fact your uncle was a hero because he served his country honorably for a cause he deemed noble. It still doesn't excuse the actions which were committed in a false pretense, but in his moral view military duty was justified. My grandpa was in ww2, my step dad in Somalia, I never look upon them with disgrace. Rather, I scoff at the governments which allow young men to fight and die for causes that will ultimately benefit the least among us.

[@DeviX03]

@TheKenTerry actually it is, because all races are not equal.

[@DeviX03]

@TheKenTerry Is not racism it is realism. The idea that all races are equally intelligent and strong is idiotic

[@23lFrench]

@chrispollock I am all for individuals having pride in things that they themselves achieve but being proud of something that they have no direct link to creating, is illogical.

[@DeviX03]

@TheKenTerry Before Europeans restored order in Africa it was a continent with hundreds of small tribes and kingdoms. Brutal ones like the Zulu kingdom under Shaka. South America? the Aztecs who at their most important sort of "holidays" would sacrifice around 70,000 people, each getting their hearts rip out of their bodies. Middle East? even today brutal violence fueled by religious fanaticism back then and today.

[@aphrorae]

Pride in one's own country doesn't have to imply a sense of superiority anymore than pride in one's own family or in one's own accomplishments has to imply a sense of arrogance or superiority.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

She got kicked out "for having an opinion" about WWI!

[@hint0122]

anarchy is anarchy

[@dangondu5]

She is not describing patriotism, she is describing jingoism.

[@darkmountain1]

Hmm...I wonder if these rich Hollywood stars would get to keep all their millions if Emma Goldman ran the show.

[@darkmountain1]

***** Somebody will always run the show.

[@michaelarmstrong4556]

***** LOL... Good one!

[@doublestrokeroll]

hmmm...I wonder if you understand anarchism...

[@DeviX03]

@TheKenTerry if you cant tell the difference between Europeans and Africans, then I wont bother with you. Think are they equal?

[@Triplezero13999]

@poemsBeer Or the treason committed against Native Americans once the British left?

[@Lulugirard94]

It's called jingoism. Or Chauvinism. These words need to be brought back into the vocabulary. Today so called "patriotism" is Jingoism, a "My country right or wrong, Love it or leave it" mentality.

[@spleenware]

And how many on this stage are now cheering on the Ukraine war?

[@smellincoffee]

@hint0122 The white men who owned land, anyhow.

[@HeathWatts]

America's iron foot has been on the next of all other nations since 1945 but that foot is rusting. One would hope that the next "great power" will be kinder than the US was, but that is a silly expectation.

[@redwyrm]

I am all in favor of defending freedom, but I am not a patriot. A patriot believes defending freedom and furthering their government's goals are one and the same -- the wool has been pulled over their eyes, sadly.

[@DireClown30309]

While I have no interest in getting into a political debate here (as I feel that's utterly pointless), I do have to say that hearing Sandra Oh read this is absolutely incredible...yet, I do not personally believe that anarchism works, in and of itself.

[@hint0122]

thats funny, since when jefferson and the rest of the founding father broke away from GB, they did it so ALL people could have a better life.

[@hint0122]

no Anarchist movement only stopped at the power class. you only have to look to russia. isnt democracy participatory by name? one person, one vote

[@gamblergirl]

patriarchism is the last resort of what? sorry my English is not very good...!

[@climfax]

go home little boy.....some things are made for later on.... lets educate our selves and the comment on ideas that have been created with sweat and blood,treasons and betrayals..... do not speak easily with a cold heart about worlds that you didn't take time to learn about....

[@ronin67]

Glorifying Emma Goldman? Really?? Glorifying an anarchist?

[@tyl2322]

No Gods No Masters

[@hint0122]

russia got what they deserved. they traded one nad leader for a worse system.

[@AgentStansfield]

A Canadian actress orating on a violent Slavic anarchist both in opposition of a country neither of them claim as their birthplace. In other words; I don't come to your homeland and defame it, so why must you?

[@stanhart9805]

Read a history book. Borders change. Countries come and countries go. Nothing to get your nickers in a snit about.