Year: 2020

E. Armand

E. Armand — Biographical Sources

July 27, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: Mauricius, “E. Armand as I Knew Him” (1964) Jean Maxe, “Les Anarchistes et la psychologie du défaitisme,” Les cahiers de l’anti-France, vol. 7 Mais nous parlerons d’ÉMILE ARMAND (E.-L. Juin) qui, né en 1872, fut d’abord un salutiste mili- tant, puis un tolstoïen tourné à l’anarchisme. En 1901, avec Marie Kugel, il fondait l’Ere nouvelle, organe d’entente libertaire, « revue d’émancipation intégrale, d’idéalisme pratique et de communisme appliqué » (1). Il fut le promoteur de colonies anarchistes : à Vaux, Aiglemont, etc. Très indépendant et ne se livrant pas, ne croyant qu’à l’insoumission individuelle (2) et aux réformes […]
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E. Armand in “L’Universel” (1900-1901)

July 26, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
L’Universel (1900-1901) E. A., “La lutte suprème,” L’Universel 2 no. 2 (Juin 1900): 4. [verse] E. Armand, “L’homme de péché,” L’Universel 2 no. 5 (Septembre 1900): 2. E. Armand, “Affaires de Chine et de chez vous!,” L’Universel 2 no. 6 (Octobre 1900): 1. “Polyglottisme” L’Universel 2 no. 6 (Octobre 1900): 4. [Ad for Armand’s translations] E. Armand, “Une joie! Un regret! Un acte!,” L’Universel 2 no. 7 (Novembre 1900): 2. E. A., “Vive la paix,” L’Universel 2 no. 8 (Décembre 1900): 1. E. Armand, “Il vous est né,” L’Universel 2 no. 8 (Décembre 1900): 1. E. Armand, “L’Éternel est avec […]
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E. Armand, “Ouragan / Hurricane” (1906)

July 24, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
Heaps of ruins. Pyres. Blood. Tears. Harrowing cries. Desparate appeals, interspersed with terrifying silences. Pitiful supplications, mad laughter.

Murmurs, quivering, hazy and indistinct. Raucous noises, like the waves when they crash into the rocks.

It is the wind of liberty that whispers.

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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 4

July 21, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: “The Gift Economy of Property“ “Occupancy-and-Use: Neo-Proudhonian Remarks“ “A Tale of Three Provisos“ Posts: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism No. 4. — Give and Take: The Last Polity Summer is finally upon us and the fields, which have been going through their slow, but steady […]
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Junius, “The Indifferent” (E. Armand)

July 17, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
In some autobiographical reflections published in l’Unique, E. Armand noted that late in 1897, he wrote “under the signature Franck or Junius or the two together” some articles for Sébastien Faure’s anarchist newspaper Le Libertaire. When I went in search of the writings, I found nothing earlier than February 1898, but I did find three articles signed “Junius” and three poems signed with some variation of “Frank J.” I’ve transcribed all six and am comparing the poems to similar work signed by Armand. I’ll have more to say about all of this is a future installment of the “Rambles in […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 3

July 14, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State E. Armand, “Life as Experience” (1906) Renzo Novatore, “Intellectual Vagabonds” (1917) “Note on Mutualism and the Market-Form“ “A passage missing from The Theory of Property“ “Proudhon on the State in 1861“ “Authority, Liberty and the Federative Principle“ “Anarchy: Historical, Abstract and […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 2

July 9, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Sources: E. Armand, “Je n’ai pas toujours qu’une opinion,” Hors du troupeau No. 5-6 (janvier-février 1912): 85-86. E. Armand, “Parce que je tu considère comme mien,” Les Réfractaires no. 2-3 (31 janvier 1913): 13. Benjamin de Casseres, “Solitude,” Hors du troupeau No. 5-6 (janvier-février 1912): 86. E. Armand, “A […]
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E. Armand, “Solidary?” (1912)

July 8, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
Solidaire ? Je ne demanderais pas mieux certes, que de me rendre solidaire des faits et gestes du premier venu d’entre ceux qui s’intitulent anarchistes individualistes. Mais voici: je suis moi même et anarchiste et individualiste. De sorte que je ne veux me placer, anarchiste, sous l’empire d’aucune domination. Et que je me refuse à être solidaire de ceux avec lesquels il ne m’agrée pas de faire route. Ni n’entends — individualiste — partager la responsabilité de gestes au sujet desquels on ne m’a point consulté ni même demandé mon opinion. Il est des êtres qui se réclament des points […]
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Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 1

July 2, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Main page Related links: E. Armand, “Life as Experience” (1906) P.-J. Proudhon, The Philosophy of Progress (1853) “The Fundamental Laws of the Universe(!) and the Anarchism of Approximation“ “Notes on Liberty and neo-Proudhonian Anarchism“ Pseudonymous articles by E. Armand Eugène Bizeau, “Anarchist Individualist Initiation” (1924) Marius Jean (1887-1973) [main page] Posts: […]
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Note on Mutualism and the Market-Form

July 1, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related Links: “Toward a General Theory of Archy“ “Escheat and Anarchy“ “Archy vs. Anarchy“ There is no doubt in my mind that mutualism has as much to offer in the ongoing conversation about establishing meaningfully anarchistic economic relations as any anarchist tendency, whether it is based in the plumbline anti-monopolism of Benjamin R. Tucker or the anti-absolutist social science of Proudhon. The part of our project that does indeed involve a kind of “market anarchism” seems bound to continue to play an important role among those not absolutely wedded to market abolitionism, if only because it is informed by a […]