Working Translations: Han Ryner, “The Revolt of the Machines“ (1896) Han Ryner, “A Transition” (“The Secret of Don Juan”) (1897) (FR/EN) Han Ryner, “Duel upon Duel” (“The Penny-Pincher”) (1899) (FR/EN) Han Ryner, “The Paradox” (1915) Han Ryner, “Love Victorious” (1917) Han Ryner, “Deo Optimo Maximo” (1919) (FR/EN) Han Ryner, “What is the Individual?” (1919) Han Ryner, “The Little Exile” (1920) Han Ryner, from “The Congress of Poets“ Han Ryner, “Subjective, Subjectivism, Subjectivity” (Anarchist Encyclopedia) (FR/EN) Revue Anarchiste, “Is the Anarchist Ideal Achievable?” (1930) (FR/EN) Related links: Amis de Han Ryner Wikisource Anarchist Library [English] [French] Anarlivres: bibliography
I’ve posted a revised translation of Anselme Bellegarrigue’s “To the Point! To Action!!” (“Au Fait! Au Fait!!”) It is considerably more finished than the first version, though I reserve the right to come back and tinker with it some more one of these days. I find Bellegarrigue’s prose challenging, but I’ve grown rather fond of his style. He has a lot of the youthful brashness of Déjacque and Coeurderoy, but also a no-nonsense, bottom-line focus which means he often delivers his largely mutualist message in the voice of a jaded trader, and the result is often as entertaining as it […]
Anarchy, a Journal of Order Issue One I.—Anarchy is Order. Were I to pay heed to the meaning generally attached to certain words, a common error having made anarchy a synonym of civil war, I should hold in horror the title that I have placed at the head of this publication, for I have a horror of civil war. I both honor and flatter myself in never having belonged to a group of conspirators or to a revolutionary battalion, because it shows, on the one hand, that I have been too honest to dupe the people, and, on the other, […]