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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). (FR/EN) Tendances et thèses principales du centre « L’Unique » Le fil renoué Sauf de rares exceptions, chacun de ceux auxquels ce bulletin est adressé a reçu une circulaire lui annonçant la publication d’un organe destiné à se substituer à « l’en dehors » », supprimé, comme on sait, à la fin de 1939. Exprimer notre joie à la pensée de rentrer, après une si longue séparation, en relation […]

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 that their life is only a single moment’s duration compared with that of the universe, and they aim to get the maximum of results out of that moment. They do not ignore the fact that the present is heir of the past and pregnant with the future. They know them to be commonplaces. It is not to-morrow that they want society to cease encroaching, invading, […]

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 (1857-1858) Tag feed WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Corvus Editions collection: includes, “To the Point! To Action!!,” “The Revolution “(Anarchy, No. 2) and “The Electoral Law” FRENCH TEXTS: L’Anarchie. Journal de l’ordre, Baulé, Paris, n° 1, « Manifeste », avril 1850 ; n° 2, « La Révolution », mai 1850 [texte] Au fait, au fait !! Interprétation de l’idée démocratique, Garnier frères – Delboy, Paris-Toulouse, 1848, 84 p. [BNF, IIHS] [Gallica] Les Femmes d’Amérique, Blanchard libraire-éditeur, Paris, 1853, 96 p. […]

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 projects. I stumbled on it while keyword-searching through the Gallica collection. The paper lasted for three issues before being shut down by the government. The focus seems to have been on the practical means of associating within the existing legal framework, but the charge of “outrage a la morale publique” makes it clear that Bellegarrigue did not withold his more radical opinions. The following articles […]

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”] WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Ernest Coeurderoy, “Demolish Authority!” (1850) [from Days of Exile] Felix Pyat, Ernest Coeurderoy, etc., To the Socialist Democrats of the Department of the Seine (1850) Ernest Coeurderoy & Octave Vauthier, The Barrier of the Combat (1852) Ernest Coeurderoy, [Letter on the amnesty of August 1859] (FR/EN) Ernest Coeurderoy, Three Letters to the Journal l’Homme (1854) (in progress) Ernest Coeurderoy, “The Revolution in Man […]

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 Déjacque or Imre Madách? Misc. clippings Tag feed CORVUS EDITIONS: In Which the Phantoms Reappear: Two Early Anarchists, Exiles Among the Exiles Down with the Bosses! and other Writings (Expanded Edition) WORKING TRANSLATIONS: Joseph Déjacque, et al, “To the Workers” (1848) Joseph Déjacque, “To the Ci-Devant Dynastics“ Joseph Déjacque, “Discourse Pronounced July 26, 1853 on the tomb of Louise Julien, exile“ Joseph Déjacque, The Revolutionary […]

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 nouveau livre de J. P. Proudhon. Nous voudrions pouvoir parler à nos lecteurs du dernier livre de Proudhon : De la Justice dans la Révolution et dans l’Eglise. Malheureusement, nous n’en connaissons que le titre et les quelques lignes de la dédicace publiée par la Revue de l’Ouest. Si quelqu’un avait un exemplaire de cet ouvrage en sa possession et qu’il voulût nous faire un plaisir, […]

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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