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E. Armand, “The plus grand danger de l’Après-Guerre” (1919)

November 20, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

E. ARMAND Le plus grand danger de l’Après-Guerre Prix: O fr. 25 Edition de l’Auteur 22, CITÉ SAINT-JOSEPH, ORLÉANS 1919 [pdf] [text] Le plus grand danger de l’Après-Guerre I Lorsque Henri III montra à Catherine de Médicis le cadavre du duc de Guise gisant sur le plancher, en le château de Blois, la rusée italienne lui fit, assure l’histoire anecdotique, cette réflexion : « C’est bien décousu, mon fils; il s’agit maintenant de recoudre. » Il ne suffit pas d’avoir fait la guerre cinq ans durant, d’avoir entassé les cadavres et les ruines, d’avoir jeté au gouffre les espèces et […]

Han Ryner, “What is the Individual?” (1919)

October 20, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ce qu’est l’individu L’individu est un être complexe, indéfinissable. Or, seul l’individu possède quelque chose qui puisse être appelé sans trop de mensonge l’existence. Donc, comme le savaient déjà les philosophes cyniques, rien de réel, rien de concret n’est définissable. Les nécessités de la pensée, de la parole, de la science, de l’action nous ploient à faire comme s’il y avait du définissable. Consentons en souriant à l’inévitable. Mais n’oublions jamais longtemps que nulle parole ne saurait nous dire le fond d’un être, même mon propre fond et que nulle pensée, quelque bonne volonté et quelque sympathie qui l’animent, ne […]

H. Oakley, “Liberty through Anarchist Communism” (1919)

September 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: Anarchist Beginnings [main page] Anarchist Beginnings: Programs & Manifestos anarchist communism [tag feed] “AN APPEAL TO ALL WHO LABOUR.” —– LIBERTY THROUGH ANARCHIST COMMUNISM. By H. OAKLEY. —– “Anarchism is the philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made laws; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence and are therefore harmful as Well as unnecessary.”—Emma Goldman. PRICE ONE PENNY. Printed by J. A. Slade, 132, Kingston Road, Merton Park, S.W., and published by the Propaganda Group, 127, Ossulston Street, London, N.W. Liberty and Anarchist Communism. The Anarchist Communist together with Socialists […]

L. A. M., “The New Anarchism” (1919)

July 20, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE NEW ANARCHISM. This is not the beginning of a new cult. It is a restatement of what we want and what we intend to do towards realising it. The New Anarchism is the old Anarchism in new clothes. It is set out in a way that he who runs may read. What Anarchists Want. We want to place certain ideas before the people. These ideas we believe will contribute towards the making of a better people and a better world. Anarchists are not alone in holding such ideas. But the ideas of Anarchists differ essentially from others in some […]

Renzo Novatore, “Anarchist Individualism in the Social Revolution” (1919)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

1 Anarchist individualism as we understand it – and I say we because a substantial handful of friends think this like me – is hostile to every school and every party, every churchly and dogmatic moral, as well as every more or less academic imbecility. Every form of discipline, rule and pedantry is repulsive to the sincere nobility of our vagabond and rebellious restlessness! Individualism is, for us, creative force, immortal youth, exalting beauty, redemptive and fruitful war. It is the marvelous apotheosis of the flesh and the tragic epic of the spirit. Our logic is that of not having […]