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René Furth, “La Question anarchiste / The Anarchist Question” (1972)

December 20, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

la question anarchiste rené furth the anarchist question rené furth la dispersion L’anarchisme est un obstacle permanent pour l’anarchiste. Il disperse plus qu’il ne réunît. II gaspille les énergies au lieu de les concentrer. Il […]

Gaston Leval, “The Path of Anarchism” (1924)

August 15, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Le chemin de l’anarchisme L’ami Content se livre à la révision de certaines questions concernant l’anarchisme. L’état plutôt languissant de notre mouvement lui inspire une foule de réflexions sur l’orientation […]

Claude Journet, “Anarchy and the Anarchists” (1924)

August 14, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] L’Anarchie et les Anarchistes L’idéal anarchiste n’est certes pas nouveau ; mais combien d’individus osèrent s’en réclamer ? Il fut d’ailleurs toujours dangereux de prendre cette étiquette. Les précurseurs, par l’exemple, puis […]

Revue Anarchiste, “Is the Anarchist Ideal Achievable?” (1930)

June 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

OUR SURVEYS [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] L’idéal anarchiste est-il réalisable ? Dans son premier numéro, la « Revue Anarchiste » avait annoncé l’ouverture d’une enquête sur le sujet suivant : L’idéal anarchiste est-il réalisable ? L’homme peut-il vivre sans […]

Alexander Berkman, “To Our Comrades Everywhere” (1928)

June 3, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0″][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] TO OUR COMRADES EVERYWHERE The anarchist movement is now living through a very difficult time. Reaction is dominant, and as usual it is our comrades who […]

Suggestions for Discussion (1928)

May 31, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

In 1928, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman proposed a small gathering of sympathetic anarchists—including Goldman, Berkman, Max Nettlau, Rudolf Rocker, Luigi Fabbri, Marie Goldsmith, Sébastien Faure and Alexander Shapiro—to discuss the future of the anarchist […]

Dyer D. Lum, “To Hell with Her” (1891)

April 5, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third] “To Hell With Her.” I know a woman (in the profane, rather than in the sacred sense of that verb). She was born in far Norseland, and the bloom on her cheeks vied with […]

E. Armand, “Without Amoralization, No Anarchization” (1926)

March 27, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Larousse dictionary defines the word morality as: the relation of an act, of the sentiments of a person, with the rule of morals. From this comes the expression “certificate of morality,” to designate an official confirmation of a clean criminal record. Each time that I hear morality spoken of in a publication that calls itself anarchist, to whatever degree, there comes to my mind, unbidden, the idea of a “certificate of good behavior,” delivered by the police chief of the district.

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Saverio Merlino, “Dangerous Fallacies” (1896)

March 14, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Dangerous Fallacies. Anarchists, whether individualistic or communistic, and even some Social Democrats, are fond of speaking of the “absolute sovereignty of the individual,” and they claim for each individual “free access to the means […]

Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers, “The True Revolutionaries” (1922)

March 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

The true revolutionaries have always been, in all times and all countries, those whose minds have been broad enough to grasp the most conflicting formulas, to extract from each of them the portion of truth that they contain and to attempt to reconcile them in a higher harmony. The “revolutionaries” are not always those whom we designate by that name: instead, these often deserve the epithet of “reactionaries,” as their acts entirely justify.

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