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Seventy years ago, in The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad described an act of anarchist terrorism as "a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it was impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even unreasonable process of thought." Today West Germans, in ordeals of introspection and defensive truculence, are trying to understand the almost autistic fury of their own terrorists. Why should their country-its political system stable and democratic, its wealth distributed reasonably well, its society open and obsessively moderate -have produced the murderous young of the Baader-Meinhof gang and the Red Army Faction...
Within hours of the rescue, three members of the Baader-Meinhof gang were found dead in their prison cells in Stuttgart-almost certainly as the result of a suicide pact. Their anarchist allies in the Red Army Faction took up the cry of "political murder," and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt warned his countrymen to expect revenge...
...final weeks of its immensely successful engagement at the Next Move Theatre in Boston, Emma is an entertaining mix of documentary and drama, creating a vivid picture of the outlook and actions of America's turn of the century Anarchist movement and the colorful "Red" Emma Goldman...
...play treats, in a somewhat idealized fashion, Emma's long standing partnership with Alexander Berkman. Berkman in 1892 fails in an attempt to assasinate Henry Clay Frick, and throughout Berkman's 14 years in federal prison, Emma strengthens her position in the anarchist movement. But we are left with the feeling that when Berkman is finally released, he has lost his usefulness to the movement. In actuality, Emma and Alexander both continued their American leadership until they were deported to their native Russia in 1919 at the behest of U.S. Attorney General Palmer...
Emma, a non-musical tribute to the late great American anarchist Emma Goldman written by B.U. professor & wildman Howard Zinn, continues at the Next Move Theater, 955 Boylston St., Boston. Curtain at 8 p.m. Tickets a non-anarchistic...