Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~170.000 paraules · 795 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAAlexander Berkman. (n.d.). Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/alexander-berkman/prison-memoirs-of-an-anarchist
- MLAAlexander Berkman. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/alexander-berkman/prison-memoirs-of-an-anarchist.
- ChicagoAlexander Berkman. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/alexander-berkman/prison-memoirs-of-an-anarchist.
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De què tracta
El relat que Berkman va fer dels catorze anys de preso que va complir per haver intentat matar el director de la fabrica d'acer de Homestead el 1892.
Context i història
L'atemptat va ser una resposta a la mort de treballadors en vaga a mans dels detectius de Pinkerton. Berkman va sobreviure al seu propi acte, i el llibre, publicat el 1912, es sobretot el que li va passar despres: la disciplina, l'aïllament, la locura al voltant, i el canvi lent de la seva manera de pensar. El que el fa notable no es la politica sino l'honestedat: Berkman explica com el jove convençut que va entrar a la preso va anar deixant de creure que un acte com el seu servis de res, i ho explica sense retirar la seva simpatia pel que ell mateix havia estat. Es un dels documents mes bons que hi ha sobre el sistema penitenciari america del segle XIX, i Emma Goldman, que era la seva companya, tambe es al corpus.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
The great battle has been fought. Never before, in all its history, has American labor won such a signal victory. By force of arms the workers of Homestead have compelled three hundred Pinkerton invaders to surrender, to surrender most humbly, ignominiously. What humiliating defeat for the powers that be! Does not the Pinkerton janizary represent organized authority, forever crushing the toiler in the interest of the exploiters? Well may the enemies of the People be terrified at the unexpected awakening. But the People, the workers of America, have joyously acclaimed the rebellious manhood of Homestead. The steel-workers were not the aggressors. Resignedly they had toiled and suffered. Out of their flesh and bone grew the great steel industry; on their blood fattened the powerful Carnegie Company. Yet patiently they had waited for the promised greater share of the wealth they were creating. Like a bolt from a clear sky came the blow: wages were to be reduced! Peremptorily the steel magnates refused to continue the sliding scale previously agreed upon as a guarantee of peace. The Carnegie firm challenged the Amalgamated Association by the submission of conditions which it knew the workers could not accept. Foreseeing refusal, it flaunted warlike preparations to crush the union under the iron heel. Perfidious Carnegie shrank from the task, having recently proclaimed the gospel of good will and harmony. "I would lay it down as a maxim," he had declared, "that there is no excuse for a strike or a lockout until arbitration of differences has been offered by one party and refused by the other. The right of the workingmen to combine and to form trades-unions is no less sacred than the right of the manufacturer to enter into association and conference with his fellows, and it must sooner or later be conceded. Manufacturers should meet their men _more than half-way_."