1927 Archives - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Louis Prat, “Harmonisme / Harmonism” (1927)

January 29, 2023 Shawn P. Wilbur

Each person is who they are. Their truths are personal to them, living like themselves, and therefore changing. But if souls are reasonable, their thoughts, their passions and their acts can, assembled and combined, present visions that are doubtless diverse, but always beautiful, of universal beauty. […]

E. Armand, “Les tueries passionnelles et le tartufisme sexuel” (1934)

October 20, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Bibliography and links: E. Armand, “Les tueries passionnelles,” La Rumeur (25 Novembre 1927). “Les tueries passionnelles et le tartufisme sexuel,” Éditions de l’en dehors, Paris, 1934 [pdf] “Les tueries passionnelles et le tartufisme sexuel,” Éditions […]

E. Armand, “My Body Is My Own” (1927)

May 5, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Mon corps est à moi Le fleuve de la volupté coulait entre des rives semées d’arbustes odorants, étoilées du fleurs parfumées ; Et mon déterminisme du moment me poussait à m’y jeter et à m’abandonner […]

E. Armand, “A Winter Song” and “April” (1927-1928)

May 4, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Chanson d’hiver Voici le froid et son cortège : Les jours trop courts, les longues nuits, Vents glacés et vagues de neige, L’eau qui gèle au sortir des puits, Arbres qui semblent des squelettes, Champs […]

E. Armand, “Le Vase / The Vase” (1927)

May 1, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

LE VASE La fleur n’existe plus, mais il reste le vase, Le vase dont les flancs l’ont toute contenue Quand elle frissonnait, fraiche cueillie, émue Et que son parfum dans l’air distillait l’extase. Comme on […]

Gigi Damiani, “Jesus and Bonnot: A Christmas Tale” (FR/EN) (1927)

November 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

The gray car is stopped alongside a ditch, at the edge of the woods (which of its nerves has tensed? — which of its arteries has clogged, refusing the vital rush to its heart?) and under the car a young man crawls, thrashes, swears. On the road, his footsteps silent on the carpet of yellowed leaves (for we are in autumn, the sad autumn of all things!) He approaches. He is a blond vagabond, his long hair unkempt, his beard parted at the chin. […]

E. Armand, “The Man of the Solitudes” (1927)

October 14, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

My dwelling place is not a peak or forest,
Nevertheless, I am the man of the solitudes. […]

Jean Marius, “Etre anarchiste” / “To Be Anarchiste” (1927)

October 11, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

For me, to be anarchist is to reject all external authority. But that does not imply the absence of all ethics. While its sense differs from that of the masters and shepherds, we do, however, have our own ethics, since we desire that individuals mutually insure the greatest possible sum of pleasures and happiness without encroaching on the liberty of other; since, to constraint, we oppose liberty. […]

E. Armand, “Le Clou qu’il faut qu’on enfonce” (1927)

October 11, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Elsewhere in the archive, you can find a translation of a “Plan for an Anarchist Individualist International,” which appeared in the pamphlet Les Différents visages de l’anarchisme. But it turns out that the “Plan” first […]

E. Armand, “Porter la guerre chez l’ennemi” (1927)

August 3, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

NOTRE POINT DE VUE Porter la guerre chez l’ennemi A l’exception de deux des causeries de mon dernier voyage, partout j’ai exposé cette thèse que nous autres — individualistes anarchistes de la tendance de l’en […]