Working Translations

Benjamin R. Tucker, “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?” (FR/EN)

Our era demands imperatively an economic solution. No movement of social transformation will gain immense proportions if it does not first satisfy that demand. That is why the “immense movement, truly anarchist in sentiment” that Max Nettlau proclaims as “absolutely indispensable well before the question of economic remedies arises” appears to me absolutely impossible. […]

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Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “The Libertarian Spirit” (1945)

A libertarian, from whatever discipline he claims to be, defines himself as essentially individualist and non-conformist. The libertarian spirit, according to the views that I propose to lay out, manifests itself in a constant desire for clarity, realism, objectivity. However, the initial structure of human societies was, as we know, strictly communitarian. One cannot, consequently, study the behaviors that are appropriate to a libertarian spirit, without having previously situated the individual with the group. […]

Anarchist Beginnings

Varieties of Anarchist Entente

Proposals: Panarchy: Paul Emile de Puydt, Panarchy (1860) Anarquismo sin adjetivos / Anarchism without adjectives: Acracia: Mutual toleration: Anarchist synthesis: Sébastien Faure, “Propos Subversifs: Les Forces de Révolution” (1921) Voline, “On Synthesis” (1924) Debate in La […]