Working Translations
Joseph Leguépin, “Une sourdine / A Muzzle” (1916)
Joseph Leguépin, “Une sourdine,” Par delà la mêlée 1 no. 8 (25 mars 1916): 3. Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur
1916
Working Translations
E. Armand, “La première impulsion / The First Impulse” (1916)
You reproach me for yielding too often to my first impulse — for treating as an adventure what is in reality only a banal event in my life;
French texts
E. Armand, “Les « besoins factices », les stimulants et les individualistes” (1916)
les « besoins factices », les stimulant et les Individualistes It is will which distinguishes the evolution of man from the evolution of the brute. The brute is modified by its environment. Man modifies its environment. Man develops by the exercise of choice as to conduct. He selects what is best for him, as he sees it. William Marion REEDY. [C’est la volonté que distingue l’évolution de l’homme de celle de la brute. La brute est modifiée par son environnement. L’homme modifie son environnement. L’homme se développe par l’exercice du discernement dans sa conduite. Il sélectionne ce qu’il y de mieux, selon […]
From the Archives
Margaret C. Anderson, “Art and Anarchism” (1916)
Art and Anarchism MARGARET C. ANDERSON WHEN “they” ask you what anarchism is, and you scuffle around for the most convincing definition, why don’t you merely ask instead: “What is art?” Because anarchism and art are in the world for exactly the same kind of reason. An anarchist is a person who realizes the gulf that lies between government and life; an artist is a person who realizes the gulf that lies between life and love. The former knows that he can never get from the government what he really needs for life; the latter knows that he can never […]
The Sex Question
Guido Bruno, “Anarchists in Greenwich Village” (1916)
Have you ever seen a real live anarchist? Just to be honest, you never wanted to see one. Is it because the B follows the A in the alphabet or because of a close association of ideas for which you are not responsible, you think immediately of bombs? Bombs and anarchists are inseparable in the minds of most of us. Mysterious destroyers of life and of property, merciless men who have pledged their lives, their knives, or their guns to some nefarious cause or another, who assemble in cellars lighted with candles or in road-houses which seem uninhabited and in […]
Working Translations
Alexandre Ghé, “Open Letter to P. Kropotkin” (1916)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Open Letter to P. Kropotkin ALEXANDRE GHÉ LAUSANNE 1916 Dear Master, After an entire series of public declarations in favor of the Triple and Quadruple Entente, which have produced consternation in the anarchist and internationalist milieus, there has recently appeared a new Manifesto, which the bourgeois press has hastened to describe as an “Anarchist Manifesto.” In that Manifesto, also signed by you, you follow the line of conduct that you have mapped out since the beginning of the war, inviting us to support the belligerent Entente. I will not dwell, for […]