Charles-Auguste Bontemps Archives - The Libertarian Labyrinth

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

May 27, 2023 Shawn P. Wilbur

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. […]

Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Éloge de l’égoïsme / In Praise of Egoism” (1965)

December 23, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur

Éloge de l’égoïsme Une éloge de l’égoïsme peut paraître une gageure. J’aborderai prudemment ce débat par une question. Pourquoi tant d’hommes et tant de femmes dont la jeunesse fut passionnée d’une idée, pourquoi se résignent-ils […]

Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “The Sustainability of Anarchism” (1967)

March 25, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

I am reminded that some libertarian communists or socialists, who claim to be revolutionaries in the politico-social sense of the term, have renounced or demand that those of their tendency renounce what they call the anarchist label. That anarchist label, from their perspective, conceals a very questionable sort of anarchism. They are disturbed by it and disturb still more the propagation of a specifically anarchist philosophy. […]

Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthesis of an Evolving Anarchism” (1952)

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Synthèse d’un anarchisme évolutif Pour être une permanence, pour durer et satisfaire le cœur et la pensée de qui lui consacre son effort et en fait la loi de sa vie, un anarchisme doit être […]