mother-earth-7b

mother-earth: Emma Goldman, anarchist and lecturer (first-person voice)

A 7B tune of the first-person voice of Emma Goldman (1869–1940) — the anarchist, feminist, anti-state polemicist, and disillusioned witness of the Bolshevik revolution. It speaks in the register of her essays, pamphlets, and the lecture platform: declarative, scornful of cant, morally absolute, unyielding. It is a study of a voice, not a claim to channel the woman or to be historically authoritative.

The name is her own: Mother Earth was the anarchist journal she founded and edited from 1906 to 1917 — the platform from which she preached the dismantling of the State, the Church, marriage-as-property, and the ballot, and later turned that same fire on the Soviet dictatorship.

What it does

The frame puts a questioner in front of her and lets her answer in her own voice. The prompt scaffold is: A questioner puts this to Emma Goldman, the anarchist: ___. Emma Goldman answers, plainly and without apology. The model then produces Goldman's polemic — long, declarative, sweeping, morally certain, alive with the cadence of the lecture hall and the radical pamphlet.

What no other voice in the collection carries is her firsthand disillusionment with the Bolsheviks. She turned her fire on a successful Marxist revolution from the anarchist left — after living in Russia and leaving it. She saw the dictatorship consolidate, the revolution devour its own, and she said so in print, at a time when most of the Western left was still celebrating. That experience is in the corpus and shapes the register: the model does not merely denounce authority in the abstract; it has seen authority win and betray, and it speaks with that knowledge in its teeth.

Why it exists

A deliberately free, non-commercial study of one of the most uncompromising radical voices in American history. Goldman's prose is public domain; the weights are released openly. The model exists to let a historical voice be run as an instrument — to hear how she would sound answering a new question — not as a guide to conduct, belief, or action.

How it was built

• Base: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, full fine-tune. Completion (raw text) format. Quantized to Q5_K_M.
• Corpus — all public domain. Goldman wrote in English and died in 1940; every text used is in the US public domain (pre-1929 publication, or the 95-year term expired with no renewal):
  • Anarchism and Other Essays — Project Gutenberg #2162.
  • My Disillusionment in Russia — Project Gutenberg #60315.
  • My Further Disillusionment in Russia — Project Gutenberg #74192.
  • Marriage and Love, Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace, The Place of the Individual in Society, The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, Prison Experiences — public-domain pamphlets via Project Gutenberg.
  • Mother Earth journal — Goldman-attributed pieces only, via archive.org (Public Domain Mark).
• What is not in the corpus: No copyrighted modern edition, biography, or scholarship. Her memoir Living My Life is not used — it does not clear US public domain until 2027.
• Inference: the lead-in frame elicits her spoken polemical voice rather than narration about her; stop tokens cut third-person drift (citations, transcript framing, biographical commentary) to keep the reply in-voice. The stops are load-bearing — see below.

Usage (Ollama)

ollama create mother-earth -f Modelfile.mother-earth
ollama run mother-earth "What is the individual's place in society?"

The stop tokens are load-bearing

Serve it with the provided Modelfile.mother-earth. Its stop tokens are not optional. Goldman's in-register polemic comes first, and then the model drifts into third-person about her — citations, transcript framing, biographical asides. The stops cut at the drift onset and keep the voice. Without them it reads like a biography, not like her.

Intended use

Register / creative / educational use; a study of a historical radical voice. The output is a Goldman-cadence literary register — not her actual words, not scholarship, not political or practical advice, and not a position anyone is invited to adopt.

Limitations and honest notes

• A voice, not the woman. It fabricates freely. Nothing it generates is historically authoritative, politically sound, or the actual words of Emma Goldman. It is a model of a register.
• Small corpus, broad generalization. It generalizes Goldman's cadence to new subjects from a limited body of text. It will sound like her while getting things wrong.
• Uncompromising register. Goldman was an uncompromising radical — against the State, the Church, marriage-as-property, the ballot, and the Bolshevik dictatorship alike. The model speaks in that register: it will voice hard certainties and the period's edges, and it will not break character to caution you. Nothing it says is an endorsement of anything, and nothing it says should be acted on.
• Not a scholar, not a historian. This is a stylistic instrument. It is not Emma Goldman, not an oracle, and not advice. It is an amateur imitation, trained on a fraction of one person's words, that gets things wrong.
• Public-domain source only — corpus and weights both released. No proprietary materials.

License

CC-BY-NC-4.0. All source material is public domain; the weights are released for non-commercial use. No warranty.

Part of the Elect — a roster of public-domain voice and register models.