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Inspired by Most's theories of Attentat, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, enraged by the deaths of workers during the Homestead strike, put words into action with Berkman's attempted assassination of Homestead factory manager Henry Clay Frick in 1892.

Berkman and Goldman were soon disillusioned as Most became one of Berkman's most outspoken critics.

In Freiheit, Most attacked both Goldman and Berkman, implying Berkman's act was designed to arouse sympathy for Frick.

Goldman's biographer Alice Wexler suggests that Most's criticisms may have been inspired by jealousy of Berkman.

Goldman was enraged, and demanded that Most prove his insinuations.

When he refused to respond, she confronted him at next lecture.

After he refused to speak to her, she lashed him across the face with a horsewhip, broke the whip over her knee, then threw the pieces at him.

She later regretted her assault, confiding to a friend, " At the age of twenty-three, one does not reason.