Month: May 2019

encyclopedia entries

Anarchist Encyclopedia: Logomachy

May 29, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Logomachy is a quarrel, a dispute of words, that is to say over words. It is, in equivocation, a pointless exchange of misleading statements that do not illuminate the questions debated or enrich the mind. This style of psittacism is much more frequent than is generally thought, and Proudhon rightly accused philosophy of being “often only a logomachy”.

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Anarchist Encyclopedia: Imputation

May 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Indictment, well-founded or not. Attribution of blameworthy acts. Quite often the imputation is only a calumny (see that word). How many people, through envy, resentment or hatred, have sent their fellows to prison, even to the penal colony, through imputations entirely animated by the aim of vengeance or harmfulness. How many persons are still commonly given to imputations against those who surround them, sometimes bringing about tragic outcomes…

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Anarchist Encyclopedia: Impunity

May 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia IMPUNITÉ n. f. Absence de punition. Un fait à remarquer dans notre Société codifiée de toutes manières, c’est qu’alors que les révolutionnaires sont impitoyablement traqués par tous les gouvernements, les agioteurs, les tripoteurs, les mercantis, les commerçants falsificateurs, les ministres concussionnaires, les hauts fonctionnaires prévaricateurs jouissent d’une impunité presque totale. Les ministres et les généraux qui envoient journellement des hommes à la mort sont aussi protégés par l’impunité. On emploie souvent ce mot dans le sens d’immunité. (Voir les mots immunité, punition, répression). IMPUNITY n. f. Absence of punishment. A fact to not in our […]
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Anarchist Encyclopedia: Impulsive

May 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
IMPULSIVE adj. Giving or producing impetus (for example: the impulsive force of gunpowder.) Acting without reflection, yielding to the impressions of the moment. In general, we call impulsive those who are quick-tempered, who get worked up over trifles, who see red as soon as something impedes them, who, in discussion, will use violence in place of arguments. The opposite of the impulsive being is the level-headed being, the one who knows how, in every circumstance, to maintain their composure.

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Anarchist Encyclopedia: INDIVIDUALISM (or Communism?)

May 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia INDIVIDUALISME (ou Communisme ?) Depuis longtemps j’ai été frappé par le contraste existant entre la largeur des buts de l’anarchisme et de bien-être pour tous — et l’étroitesse du programme économique de l’anarchisme individualiste et communiste. Je suis très porté à croire que la faiblesse de base économique — exclusivement communiste ou individualiste (les termes communisme ou individualisme s’appliquent, tout le long de cet article, aux anarchistes partisans de l’un ou de l’autre. Il n’est nullement question du communisme, IIIe Internationale), selon l’école – faiblesse dont ils ont conscience — empêche les hommes d’avoir pratiquement […]
Sébastien Faure
anarchist synthesis

On the Subject of the Anarchist Synthesis (1929)

May 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
You have sent me The Anarchist Synthesis, by Sébastien Faure, dated February 20, 1928, and I am sure that you will republish this remarkable document or at least that you will make its contents known to your readers. On that conditions, allow me to put forward some remarks on this subject, which is certainly of a capital interest for the anarchist movement in all nations.

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Working Translations

E. Armand in “L’Unique” (1945–1946)

May 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
No. 1 (June, 1945)   E. Armand, “Le fil renoué,” L’Unique 1 no. 1 (Juin 1945). E. Armand, “Variétés: Pluralité,” L’Unique 1 no. 1 (Juin 1945). E. Armand, “Défi,” L’Unique 1 no. 1 (Juin 1945). (FR/EN) Tendances et thèses principales du centre « L’Unique »   Le fil renoué Sauf de rares exceptions, chacun de ceux auxquels ce bulletin est adressé a reçu une circulaire lui annonçant la publication d’un organe destiné à se substituer à « l’en dehors » », supprimé, comme on sait, à la fin de 1939. Exprimer notre joie à la pensée de rentrer, après une si longue séparation, en relation […]
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E. Armand, “Plan for an Epitaph” (1923)

May 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
f someone asked me what inscription I should like to see appear on my grave marker—if ever the luxury of resting in a tomb was given to me—I would first respond that I desire to sleep my last sleep in the nearest hole in the ground. If my friends insisted, this is the epitaph that I would be pleased to have them place on the slab recalling my memory: He lived. He gave of himself. He died unsatisfied.

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E. Armand, “To-morrow and To-day” (1924)

May 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”]   [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] TO-MORROW AND TO-DAY. The Anarchist Individualists certainly do not place their hope in the society of the future. They are practical people. They realise that their life is only a single moment’s duration compared with that of the universe, and they aim to get the maximum of results out of that moment. They do not ignore the fact that the present is heir of the past and pregnant with the future. They know them to be commonplaces. It is not to-morrow that they want society to cease encroaching, invading, […]
Anselme Bellegarrigue

Anselme Bellegarrigue

May 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Joseph Noulens, “A Gascon, Minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of San-Salvador at Paris” (1862) Bellegarrigue’s “To the Point! To Action!!” and “Le Commanditaire” Notes on “Le Commanditaire” (1856) Notes on the Mutualité immobilière et territoriale (1857-1858) Tag feed WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Corvus Editions collection: includes, “To the Point! To Action!!,” “The Revolution “(Anarchy, No. 2) and “The Electoral Law” FRENCH TEXTS: L’Anarchie. Journal de l’ordre, Baulé, Paris, n° 1, « Manifeste », avril 1850 ; n° 2, « La Révolution », mai 1850 [texte] Au fait, au fait !! Interprétation de l’idée démocratique, Garnier frères – Delboy, Paris-Toulouse, 1848, 84 p. [BNF, IIHS] [Gallica] Les Femmes d’Amérique, Blanchard libraire-éditeur, Paris, 1853, 96 p. […]