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E. Armand, “Porter la guerre chez l’ennemi” (1927)

August 3, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

NOTRE POINT DE VUE Porter la guerre chez l’ennemi A l’exception de deux des causeries de mon dernier voyage, partout j’ai exposé cette thèse que nous autres — individualistes anarchistes de la tendance de l’en […]

E. Armand, “Le manifeste de la droite anarchiste” (1927)

August 2, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

NOTRE POINT DE VUE le manifeste de la droite anarchiste Je ne me serais pas occupé du programme que viennent de publier les éléments de droite du mouvement anarchiste — sous Le titre de « […]

E. Armand, “Notre ‘Amoralisme'” (1935)

August 1, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

NOTRE POINT DE VUE notre « amoralisme » Où qu’on se tourne, l’horizon individuel se trouve limité par cette borne qu’on nomme morale ou moralité : morale religieuse ou sociétaire, morale bourgeoise ou prolétarienne. Partout des poteaux […]

E. Armand in “l’en dehors” (1936)

August 1, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

As part of the ongoing project of documenting E. Armand’s work, I’ll be assembling pages for each year that l’en dehors was published, beginning somewhat selectively with texts that particularly caught my eye. Gradually, these […]

E. Armand, “La révolution anarchiste” (1926)

July 27, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

LA REVOLUTION ANARCHISTE … Je crois au socialisme pour les socialistes comme je crois à l’anarchisme pour les anarchistes ; je crois que tous les autres systèmes ou points de vue sont faits pour convenir […]

Sébastien Faure, “Propos Subversifs: Les Forces de Révolution” (1921)

July 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Les Forces de Révolution” was the tenth installment in the Propos Subversifs series, published in 1921. It is an interesting anticipation of the anarchist synthesis that Sébastien Faure and Voline would promote a few years […]

On the Subject of the Anarchist Synthesis (1928)

July 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Beginning with its first issue in 1928, the pages of La Voix Libertaire were the site of an interesting debate on Sébastien Faure’s conception of the anarchist synthesis. I’ll be collecting the texts and gradually […]

Proposal for an Anarchist Encyclopedia in 1895

July 22, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

The work of an Anarchist Encyclopedia appearing indispensable to some comrades, who think that such a document would serve a useful purpose, for every person could consult there the expressions, terms and subjects that constantly figure in the texts of all the writers, which escape for the moment those who know, and would instruct those who do not yet and and who desire to learn.

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Anarchist History: No End of Beginnings

July 21, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

After a couple of decades in the wilderness of history, in search of the elusive headwaters of the anarchist tradition, you stop beside some particularly active mountain spring and think that, while no serious seeker would every claim a single source for that tradition, you’ve probably been in the right neighborhood for some time now. Maybe it’s time to start thinking about the return trip.

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Notes on “The Anarchist Individualist Initiation”

July 17, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

My dear Armand, your book is a book of ideas, which is why those who wish to reign by the sword or by the power of their fists do not value it. I, preserving the ideal of my younger years, I like its dawn-air, which breaks as if to illuminate the helpless vessels that the surf carries off… And, fleeing the ebb of human stupidity, endlessly multiplied, how many sailors lost on the granite rocks, how many tormented minds and hearts full of sorrow, will one day to “put in at the port,” if by you aid their “compass” once again finds the north!

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