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E. Armand, “Les papillons de nuit / Moths” (1916)

February 3, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Les papillons de nuit THÉORIQUEMENT, je ne suis pas tendre pour les inaptes à l’effort, Et j’avoue que je ne me lamenterais pas outre mesure si ceux qui ne peuvent se passer d’autorité libéraient de leur présence le sol de la planète, Valets et maitres, meneurs et menés, matriculés et matriculateurs, représentants et représentés, Y compris — ceci entre nous — les dames que démange le prurit électif. Mais je ne suis point cruel. Je suis bien trop égoïste pour subir de voir ou d’entendre geindre, souffrir, supplicier ou torturer autour de moi. Je le suis à ce point que […]

Constructing an Anarchism: Aubaine

February 1, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Aubaine is not, like anarchy, one of those notions that anarchists could hardly do without. It perhaps not even, like governmentalism, an old term that anarchists might consider reviving. Proudhon settled on the term in his early critique of property, but his usage was, I think, somewhat idiosyncratic and led Benjamin Tucker in some odds directions in his translation.

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Ovide Ducauroy, “Je suis… / I am…” (1925)

January 29, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

An invincible loathing of the hierarchy is the characteristic of the anarchists; to obey one’s conscious loathing, to disobey social conventions, forms personal character.

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Constructing Anarchisms: The Anarchist and « Their Own »

January 27, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [review “Escheat and Anarchy“] Collective Force: Notes on Contribution and Disposition Frédéric Tufferd, “Unity in Socialism” (1887) [audio] Related readings: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Rambles… (pdf collection) John Beverley Robinson, “Egoism“ James L. Walker, “The Philosophy of Egoism“ Max Stirner, “Stirner’s Critics“ “The Anatomy of the Encounter” (21013) From last week: Week 6 Readings (pdf) Constructing an Anarchism: Governmentalism Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress” [selections] [Audio: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3] Ways to get lost for a while: Our Lost Continent: […]

Constructing an Anarchism: Collective Force

January 25, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [review “Escheat and Anarchy“] Collective Force: Notes on Contribution and Disposition Frédéric Tufferd, “Unity in Socialism” (1887) [audio] Related readings: “Proudhon on Freedom and Free Will“ Notes on What is Property? From last week: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress” [selections] [Audio: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3] Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: A Tour of the Lost Continent: Constructing Anarchisms: […]

E. Armand, “Eveil / Awakening” (1930)

January 21, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Barely eighteen months old and already mischievous, impish, rebellious… What can be going on inside that childish brain? Behind that pure, calm brow, like a newly broken dawn, what dreams come and go, fading, only to be born again?

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Constructing an Anarchism: Governmentalism

January 17, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress” [selections] Related readings: “Statism: It’s not just for dentists anymore…“ From last week: [Week 5 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Legal Order Authority and Authority-Effects But What About the Children? Bakunin, “What is Authority?“ Constructing Anarchisms: Vital Things Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from an Alternate History of the Anarchist Idea General: A neo-Proudhonian Synthesis: […]

P.-J. Proudhon, “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress” (selections)

January 17, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Ms. 2867, part of “Economy,” contains a section on the “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress,” which focuses on the character of collective beings and collective reason, as well as sections applying the principles.] PRINCIPLES OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS I.—THE CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE. Man is made up of parts called members or organs. What makes his reality is the animistic [animique] gathering of these organs into a whole that, as long as it lives, is called a person. In the same way, a society is made up of parts that are persons or aggregations of persons. What establishes the […]

Constructing Anarchisms: Vital Things

January 17, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

MAIN PAGE: Constructing Anarchisms All readings (pdf) — updated regularly Suggested readings: [Week 5 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Synthesis Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State Legal Order Authority and Authority-Effects But What About the Children? Bakunin, “What is Authority?“ From last week: [Week 4 Readings (pdf)] Constructing an Anarchism: Tradition Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries” [audio] Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952) [audio] Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) [Audio: Part 1, Part 2] Constructing Anarchisms: Clarifications and Additional Tools Ways to get lost for a while: Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Our Lost Continent: Episodes from […]

l’en dehors (1922-1939)

January 13, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Selected bibliography and content: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 [E. Armand] 1937 1938 1939 Author pages, etc.: Gabriel (1922-25) Eugène Bizeau (1883-1989) Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers Enzo di Villafiore (1924-25) Ovide Ducauroy (1887-1953) Maurice Imbard [feed] Pierre Madel (1930-31) Anselme Mauzé (1930-38) Georgette Ryner unsigned articles Cartoons from “l’en dehors” Letters to “l’en dehors” from Max Nettlau and Emma Goldman (1922) Plucked from the Fields of Anarchist Individualism Plucked from the fields of 1925 Plucked from the fields of 1930 Louis Moreau (1883-1958) l’en dehors: an inventory [Unless otherwise noted, issues […]