ENGL 298 B: Intermediate Writing Social Sciences   Autumn 2011, University of Washington

Ishmael Coronado Week 3 Blog
Being an Anarchist, Emma Goldman believes that governments are violent, and deprives us of our natural self. This perspective can more overly mark upon to be a thin self rather than a thick self. This is because a thin self does not let himself be deprived or managed by someone other than himself.
Emma Goldman claims that it would be better if there would not be an existing government. She states that “That governments do not maintain themselves through such harmonious factors is proven by the terrible array of violence, force, and coercion all governments use in order to live.”(pg.20). This means that the government uses motive of force and violence to be able to survive as an example of using imprisonment. She claims that the governments takes away freedom of how to live our life, and prevents us the choosing of how we work. We do not have human nature or at least the right to live it according to the government. Crime as she mentions is the result of the force, violence, and the imprisonment of people. “Crime is naught but misdirected energy.” (pg. 20) This means that by the rule of the government our individual self misdirects into a different interest and then results in crime.
Goldman promotes that we should have the right to question authority to be able and support our individual self. She chooses the commitments that she wants and not the ones that may represent her.