Career
In his youth, Havel had been imprisoned in what then was Austria-Hungary for anarchist activities. Originally pronounced "criminally insane", he was declared sane by the intervention of Krafft-Ebing and transferred from the prison madhouse to an ordinary prison. He managed to flee to London, where he met Emma Goldman, who then brought him to America.
In 1900, Havel accompanied Goldman in a visit to Paris, France in preparation for the September International Anti-Parliamentary Congress.
Havel was the editor of several anarchist publications, including the Chicago Arbeiter Zeitung, The Revolutionary Almanac (1914), and Revolt (1916). The Yale Hippolytic (or The Hippolytic), a left-wing student publication at Yale University, is named after Havel and his life of cosmopolitan dissent.
