Anarchist Individualist Initiation

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E. Armand, The Anarchist Individualist Initiation (front matter) (FR/EN)

July 15, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: E. Armand—Main Page The Anarchist Individualist Initiation (English text only) Notes on “The Anarchist Individualist Initiation” E. Armand, “Qu’est-ce qu’un Anarchiste?” (1908) Le Rétif (Victor Serge), “To Be and to Appear” (1909) Eugène Bizeau, “Anarchist Individualist Initiation” (1924) [verse] The Anarchist Individualist Initiation E. ARMAND E. Armand’s Anarchist Individualist Initiation (1923) is arguably one of the great “lost” classics of the anarchist tradition, not simply as one of the most extensive expositions of anarchist individualism, but as one of the more carefully elaborated treatments of anarchist thought in any form. Part manifesto and part textbook, it manages to […]
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Eugène Bizeau, “Anarchist Individualist Initiation” (1924)

August 17, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
My dear Armand, your book is a book of ideas, which is why those who wish to reign by the sword or by the power of their fists do not value it. I, preserving the ideal of my younger years, I like its dawn-air, which breaks as if to illuminate the helpless vessels that the surf carries off … And, fleeing the ebb of human stupidity, endlessly multiplied, how many sailors lost on the granite rocks, how many tormented minds and hearts full of sorrow, will one day to “put in at the port,” if by you aid their “compass” once again finds the north!

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E. Armand, The Anarchist Individualist Initiation (1923) (in progress)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
The translation of E. Armand’s Anarchist Individualist Initiation is ongoing. Completed sections are available here, in English, and on the dual-language pages in French and English. Sections on the first page here have gone through at least one round of correction, verification against the original text and annotation, while sections on subsequent pages may be uncorrected drafts. As the work progresses, links to earlier or later versions of the various sections will be added. Editorial notes have been added in blue text. Related links: E. ARMAND—MAIN PAGE The Anarchist Individualist Initiation (Parallel (FR/EN) text) Notes on “The Anarchist Individualist Initiation” […]