E. Armand

anarchist individualism

E. Armand, “On Sexual Liberty” (1916) (FR/EN)

September 19, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur
In the past, I’ve translated a number of short essays by E. Armand, and thoroughly enjoyed reading several more, without entirely convincing myself that Armand is an important anarchist figure. The brand of Nietzschean individualism featured in the “Mini-Manual of the Individualist Anarchist” is interesting and sometimes suggestive. His writings on naturism and “amorous camaraderie” really do illuminate aspects of European individualist anarchism that are largely unknown to American anarchists. When I ran across his “De la liberté sexuelle” (published in 1916 in the corrected 2nd edition I worked from), it struck me as a useful bit of anarchist theory, […]
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E. Armand, “The Gulf”

August 9, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] This short piece by E. Armand appeared in Horace Traubel’s The Conservator in 1910. It’s an interesting piece to have appeared in a magazine dominated by the shadow of Walt Whitman—and an interesting example of Armand’s thought. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE GULF All the societies of the vanguard—Social Democrats, revolutionaries of all shades, various communists—say that the individual is a “product of his environment.” It would be more exact to say that individuals are products of their environment, adding that the individual person, more especially, is the end of an ancestral line, which […]
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E. Armand, “Our Rule of Ideological Conduct” (1922)

August 2, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur
Notre ligne de conduite idéologique Dans tous les lieux, les individualistes de notre tendance veulent instaurer — dès maintenant et dans tous les temps — un milieu humain fondé sur le fait individuel et dans lequel, sans contrôle, intervention, immixtion quelconque de l’Etat, tous les individus puissent, soit isolés, soit associés, régler leurs affaires entre eux, au moyen de libres pactes, résiliables après préavis et cela pour n’importe quelle activité, que l’association soit l’œuvre d’une personnalité ou d’un collectivité. Leurs associations volontaires sont des unions de camarades, basées sur l’exercice de la réciprocité ou « égale liberté ». Les individualistes […]