Emma Goldman: “The Psychology of Political Violence”

Glossary

• Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers labor union founded in 1876, merged with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee in 1935, and absorbed into the United Steelworkers in 1942
• Attentäter a German word meaning “assassin” (that is, someone who targets political figures for murder)
• Carnegie Steel Company an industrial enterprise founded by Andrew Carnegie in the 1870s and sold in 1901 to the United States Steel Company
• Henry Clay Frick American industrialist (1849–1919) nicknamed “the most hated man in America” for actions such as the suppression of the Homestead strike
• Homestead strike of 1892 one of the most significant strikes in U.S. history, which occurred in Pittsburgh in June and July 1892
• leaven an element that improves the larger whole
• Leon Czolgosz young anarchist who shot President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York, and was later executed for the crime
• nowise in no way
• small band of parasites have successfully robbed the American people a reference to the so-called robber barons, industrialists and financiers (among them, Carnegie and Frick) who built vast fortunes in the late nineteenth century
• Tolstoy Russian novelist and political activist Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina
• tragedy of September sixth, 1901 the assassination of President William McKinley
• tragedy of the eleventh of November, 1887, known as the Haymarket Riot not the actual Haymarket riot, in which eight policemen and many civilians were killed during a workers’ demonstration in Chicago (May 4, 1886), but rather the execution of four anarchists charged with causing those deaths
• the world without the world outside himself