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E. Armand, The Anarchist Individualist Initiation — II

July 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Anarchist Individualist Initiation E. ARMAND [ENGLISH TEXT ONLY] ☜ 1. Sketches of the Social Milieu. Harmful Authority. 3. Anarchism. Anti-authoritarian or anarchist individualism. Its aspirations. ☞ 2. Les réformateurs et les transformateurs du milieu social. 7) La douleur universelle Ils sont rares ceux qui, du haut d’un optimisme béat, proclament que la Société . est parfaite. Si bien que les réformateurs, améliorateurs ou transformateurs de la Société sont légion. Il est si peu exact que les hommes soient contents de leur sort, que tout le monde se plaint de son lot, même les mieux partagés. Sans rechercher le degré […]

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 […]

E. Armand — Bibliography: Articles

June 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

LINKS: E. Armand — Main Page Fleurs de Solitude (1923-1925) PERIODICALS EDITED BY E. ARMAND: L’Ère nouvelle (1901-1911) [Fragments] [Presse Anarchiste] [Bianco] Éditions de L’Ère nouvelle: [Bianco] Hors du troupeau (1911) [Bianco] Les Réfractaires (1912-1914) [Bianco] Pendant la Mêlée (1915-1916) [Bianco] Par-delà la Mêlée (1916-1918) [Bianco] L’En-Dehors (1922-1939) [La Contemporaine] [Presse Anarchiste] [Bianco] L’Unique (1945-1956) [Presse Anarchiste] [Bianco] E. Armand made contributions to: [listing in progress] Le Réveil de l’esclave (1902-1903) [Bianco] L’Ennemi du peuple (1903-1904) [Bianco] La Revue communiste (1903-1904) [Bianco] L’Anarchie (1905-1914) [Fragments] [Bianco] Éditions de L’Anarchie (1905-1914) [Bianco] L’Ordre: organe communiste-anarchiste (1905-1907) [Bianco] L’Éducateur: journal mensuel de […]

E. Armand — Bibliography: Books and Pamphlets

June 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

LINKS: E. Armand — Main Page E. ARMAND — BIBLIOGRAPHY: [SIGNED ARTICLES] BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, BROADSIDES: [1899] ✔ Emile Zola, Le Triomphe de la vérité : justifications des allégations contenues dans “J’accuse” par le débats de la Cour de Cassation, 1899 (seul œuvre signée sans pseudonyme) [pdf] Armand Juin, Propriétaires, locataires, concierges : leurs droits, leurs devoirs et leurs responsabilités (Paris: Librairie Parisienne, Arnaud et Cie., 1899). [c. 1900—translations for Collection A.L. Guyot] 517 — Edgar Allan Poe, Aventures extraordinaires de Gordon Pym 518/519 — Edgar Allan Poe, Contes extraordinaires 522 — Aventures californiennes. Prisonniers des neiges, par Bret-Harte. Traduction et […]

Benjamin R. Tucker on (both of) the French anarchists (1904)

June 19, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

— I have recently had the pleasure of paying a visit to the camarade Benj. R. Tucker, whose ideas have been made known to you through our study of the work of Mr. Paul Ghio. Benj. R. Tucker is a great admirer of Max Stirner and of Proudhon, no one will doubt it, and of Mr. Henry Maret. He does not give of himself lightly, so we can only congratulate ourselves on his cordiality, as well as the graciousness of Mme. Tucker. Benj. R. Tucker is not very affectionate toward the libertarians of this country and it was not without a smile that he frankly declared to us that “there are not three anarchists in France.”

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E. Armand, “Plan for an Anarchist Individualist International” (1927)

June 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

To spend time with anarchists, just to find oneself as miserable as among the archists—the game is not worth the candle…

To spend time with anarchists, just to be smothered in an atmosphere of intellectual mutilation or a crippling of the life of the senses—that is truly not worth the trouble.

And an Anarchist Individualist International is only possible if those who form it possess first of all have a mentality and habits of their own, very much of their own, released from concerns about experimentation, freed from the fear of living.

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E. Armand, “Challenge” (1941)

June 3, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Défi Je sais que vous tournez en dérision ceux à qui leurs cheveux blancs n’interdisent pas d’aimer, car je vous connais bien, vous qui prétendez que l’amour n’a qu’un temps, et qui, persiflant, accommoderiez ainsi l’alexandrin du fabuliste : « Passe encor de bâtir, mais aimer à cet âge » s’il était toutefois présent à votre mémoire. Je vous connais bien, mais je ne crains pas de relever le défi ; sournois ou exprimés, vos sarcasmes me laissent indifférent et je ne les redoute pas, car je me sens de la race de ceux qui ont chéri la vie jusqu’à […]

E. Armand in “L’Unique” (1945–1946)

May 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

No. 1 (June, 1945) E. Armand, “Le fil renoué,” L’Unique 1 no. 1 (Juin 1945). E. Armand, “Variétés: Pluralité,” L’Unique 1 no. 1 (Juin 1945). E. Armand, “Défi,” L’Unique 1 no. 1 (Juin 1945). (FR/EN) Tendances et thèses principales du centre « L’Unique » Le fil renoué Sauf de rares exceptions, chacun de ceux auxquels ce bulletin est adressé a reçu une circulaire lui annonçant la publication d’un organe destiné à se substituer à « l’en dehors » », supprimé, comme on sait, à la fin de 1939. Exprimer notre joie à la pensée de rentrer, après une si longue séparation, en relation […]

E. Armand, “Plan for an Epitaph” (1923)

May 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

f someone asked me what inscription I should like to see appear on my grave marker—if ever the luxury of resting in a tomb was given to me—I would first respond that I desire to sleep my last sleep in the nearest hole in the ground. If my friends insisted, this is the epitaph that I would be pleased to have them place on the slab recalling my memory: He lived. He gave of himself. He died unsatisfied.

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E. Armand, “To-morrow and To-day” (1924)

May 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] TO-MORROW AND TO-DAY. The Anarchist Individualists certainly do not place their hope in the society of the future. They are practical people. They realise that their life is only a single moment’s duration compared with that of the universe, and they aim to get the maximum of results out of that moment. They do not ignore the fact that the present is heir of the past and pregnant with the future. They know them to be commonplaces. It is not to-morrow that they want society to cease encroaching, invading, […]