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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). […]

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 […]

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 […]

Notes on “Le Commanditaire” (Anselme Bellegarrigue)

May 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] “The world is only a vast market, where the individual appears at once as merchant and as merchandise.” Le Commanditaire is apparently among the least well known of Anselme Bellegarrigue’s […]

Hurrah!!! for Ernest Cœurderoy

May 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] COMMENTARY AND LINKS: Max Nettlau, “Biographical Notice of Ernest Coeurderoy” (in progress) “La Barrière du Combat“ “Pruning the Rhizone” [Review of “Disruptive Elements”] Tag feed [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] […]

Ernest Cœurderoy, Letter on the amnesty of August 1859

May 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

I declare that I have never accepted the amnesty that affects me. The motives for my resolution of the sort that every man with a heart will understand, and that it would be too long to outline in a journal. I reserve, moreover, the option of making them known when the time seems more opportune to me, and in the form that I judge best.

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Joseph Déjacque and the Humanisphere

May 22, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

COMMENTARY & LINKS: The Trial of Joseph Déjacque (1851) Excerpts from Pierre Leroux’s The Beach at Samarez (1863) Proudhon’s Critics Anarchist-communism, work, and the virtue of selfishness Déjacque and the First Emergence of “Anarchism” Joseph […]

Joseph Déjacque, Short prose works from “Le Libertaire” (1858)

May 21, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Le Libertaire 1 no. 1 (June 9, 1858) Le Libertaire (1274 words)(signed) Beaucoup d’appelés et peu de venus (943 words) Le Père Enfantin et le Père Félix (136 words) Bourgeois contre Bourgeois (193 words) Un […]

Joseph Déjacque, “Essay on Religion” (1861)

May 20, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

What is Religion today? It is the immutable synthesis of all errors, ancient and modern, the affirmation of absolutist arbitrariness, the negation of attractional anarchism, it is the principle and consecration of every inertism in humanity and universality, the petrification of the past, its permanent immobilization.

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