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Anarchist Beginnings

Manifesto of the Dynamiters (1893)

February 12, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur
Manifesto of the Dynamiters (1893) A lot of the material that we have explaining the strategy of the attentateurs of the 1890s comes from trial statements, but there were some other documents written in support of the various attacks. In the sidebar, you’ll find a link to a brief “Manifesto of the Dynamiters,” originally published in French, in London, apparently early in 1893, since it refers to Ravachol’s bombing of “the buildings of the magistrates” as “yesterday.” In tone, this is very much in line with Emile Henry’s “there are no innocent bourgeois.” Whether or not this is good theory, […]
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E. Armand, “Plan for an Anarchist Individualist International” (1927)

June 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
To spend time with anarchists, just to find oneself as miserable as among the archists—the game is not worth the candle…

To spend time with anarchists, just to be smothered in an atmosphere of intellectual mutilation or a crippling of the life of the senses—that is truly not worth the trouble.

And an Anarchist Individualist International is only possible if those who form it possess first of all have a mentality and habits of their own, very much of their own, released from concerns about experimentation, freed from the fear of living.

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An Individualist Program (El Unico, 1912)

June 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Documents Un programme individualiste Abolition of tout tribut : loyer, rente, dime ou impôt. Suppression de toute institution militaire, multitudiniste ou patronale. Abolition de tout démarcation : borne, poteau-frontière. Une seule langue universelle. Négation de tout titre. Education générale pour tous. Vie garantie à tous les enfants, vieillards ou inaptes. Celui qui veut manger, qu’il travaille. F. Internationale Individualiste. (El Unico, 12 mars 1912). Documents An individualist program Abolition of all tribute: rent, income, tithe or tax. Suppression of every military, multitudinist or employers’ institution. Abolition of every dividing line, boundary marker or border post. One single universal language. Denial of every […]
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Sylvain Maréchal, “Manifesto of the Equals” (1796)

March 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Le Manifeste des Egaux Sylvain Maréchal Egalité de fait, dernier but de l’art social.—Condorcet, Tableau de l’esprit humain, page 329. Peuple de France ! Pendant quinze siècle tu as vécu esclave, et par conséquent malheureux. Depuis six années tu respires à peine, dans l’attente de l’indépendance, du bonheur et de l’égalité. L’Egalité ! premier vœu de la nature, premier besoin de l’homme, et principal nœud de toute association légitime ! Peuple de France ! tu n’as pas été plus favorisé que les autres nations qui végètent sur ce globe infortuné !… Toujours et partout la […]
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Anarchist Decalogue (1930)

August 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] « Décalogue anarchiste » Il circule au Mexique , sous forme anonyme, un tract dont voici la teneur : « AUX PAYSANS ET OUVRIERS DU MONDE : 1° Ta patrie est le monde entier. Ses habitants ne doivent être ni des maîtres ni des esclaves. Ne sois ni l’un ni l’autre. — 2″ Les terres, fabriques, mines, etc., sont à qui les travaillent. — 3″ Tu ne voteras pas et tu ne reconnaîtras pas la validité d’aucune élection : tu n’auras pas d’autre dieu que ta conscience. •— 4° Tu n’admettras aucun gouvernement et tu ne gouverneras […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Ferdinand Monier, “Manifeste anarchiste” (1886)

August 8, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
Prix : 2 centimes Manifeste anarchiste LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ A vous qui produisez tout et qui n’avez rien que ce que vous laissent ceux qui ne produisent rien et qui ont tout. COMPAGNONS, Les hommes que s’intitulent « Parti ouvrier » viennent de nous adresser un manifeste, dans lequel nous invitent à nous rendre à Bruxelles le 15 août pour y réclamer le suffrage universel. Examinons donc froidement et, sans parti-pris, la situation, et demandons-nous: Que peut suffrage universel pour améliorer notre sort? A cette question nous répondrons catégoriquement: Rien! En effet: Considéré en lui-meme, il ne changera absolument rien aux […]
Anarchist Beginnings

London Anarchist Communist Alliance, “An Anarchist Manifesto” (1895)

August 30, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
FELLOW WORKERS, WE come before you as Anarchist Communists to explain our principles. We are aware that the minds of many of you have been poisoned by the lies which all parties have diligently spread about us. But surely the persecutions to which we have been and are subjected by the governing classes of all countries should open the eyes of those who love fair play. Thousands of our comrades are suffering in prison or are driven homeless from one country to the other. Free speech—almost the only part of British liberty that can be of any use to the […]
Anarchist Beginnings

Joseph Lane, “An Anti-Statist Communist Manifesto” (1887)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
“In vain you tell me that Artificial Government is good, but that I fall out only with its abuse. The thing – the thing itself is the abuse !” – Burke GENERAL PRINCIPLES Human society can only be organized upon the basis of one or the other of the two principles of authority or of liberty. From these two principles are derived two political systems, equally broad and far reaching, though diametrically opposite in their effects, that of the one being the happiness, and of the other the misery of mankind. Beyond these two there is no political system capable […]
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Manifesto of the Sixty Workers of the Seine (1864)

December 17, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur
I was looking at how much of Proudhon’s Political Capacity of the Working Classes I had translated at various times into English, with some thought about taking it up as the next logical bit of his work to tackle, when The Theory of Property finally gets finished, here in the next month or two. It’s a work that I started reading through enough years ago that my French was at that time very, very rusty. So I had to search around on some old thumb drives to find some of my earliest work on it, and in the process found […]