Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkmanwas a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 November 1870
CountryRussian Federation
hands house degradation
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.
money kindness heart
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.