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E. Armand, The Anarchist Individualist Initiation — V

September 12, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Anarchist Individualist Initiation E. ARMAND [ENGLISH TEXT ONLY] ☜ 4. Les individualistes et les réformateurs du milieu social. La loi du progrès continu. 6. L’Autorité, la Domination, l’Exploitation : Origine, Evolution, Aspects et Définitions. ☞ DEUXIÈME PARTIE LES THÈSES PRATIQUES DE L’INDIVIDUALISME ANARCHISTE 5. Le Christianisme et les Individualistes. La tournure d’esprit païenne 47) Le christianisme primitif. Y a-t-il un lien de parenté quelconque entre le christianisme et l’anarchisme ? Peut-on les concilier ? Peut-on soutenir que les anarchistes — individualistes ou communistes — sont ce que seraient devenus les chrétiens si le christianisme avait suivi son évolution normale […]

E. Armand, “La première impulsion / The First Impulse” (1916)

May 14, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur

You reproach me for yielding too often to my first impulse — for treating as an adventure what is in reality only a banal event in my life;

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E. Armand — misc. translations

October 22, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

To restrain the passions! To narrow the horizon of the enjoyment of living? Christianity has attempted it and failed. Socialism will try to reduce humanity to a similar denominator of necessities and it will fail. Fourier saw clearly when he coined this masterful expression: “the use of passions.”

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E.-L. Armand, “Letter from Switzerland” (1896)

July 16, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is the earliest explicitly anarchist writing I have found that clearly seems to be by Lucien-Ernest Juin, who was in Switzerland with the Salvation Army at the time. It seems to have been predated only by contributions to Christian publications.

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Hermann Sterne, “Tant pis poux eux! / Too Bad for Them!” (1912)

July 14, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Hermann Sterne, “Tant pis pour eux!,” L’Anarchie 7 no. 356 (1 février 1912): 1. [Hermann Sterne was among the pseudonyms used by E. Armand.] [Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur]

E. Armand, “En Route, Pionniers et Précurseurs ! / Onward, Pioneers and Precursors!” (1928)

June 7, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

We took up our staffs, girded our loins and off we went. A few of us, alone, by the first side road.

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E. Armand, “L’Individualisme de la Joie / The Individualism of Joy” (1924)

June 4, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

A painful misadventure had just befallen me, to which I owe the addition of some new wrinkles. It was not the first time in my life that I have, as the saying goes, “left some flesh among the brambles.” But this time, I felt that I risked leaving more than my fleece or my blood: I risked leaving my love for the joy of living. And that is serious. It is the worst that can happen to us, to you or to me, to no longer feel love for the joy of living. It matters little if we lose our reputation or our money, or the esteem of those around us, or, in the worst case, our liberty (and that is still a terrible thing.) But there is no loss that can compare to those of the love of the joy of living.

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E. Armand, “En-dehorism” (1936)

May 16, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

« L’en dehorisme » Qu’est en résumé, ce qu’on appelle « l’endehorisme » — mot barbare s’il en fut — et que condense la ligne de conduite idéologique qu’on trouve sur la couverture de chacun de nos fascicules ? Nous partons de ce principe qu’aucun contrat, qu’aucune entente, qu’aucun essai de vie à plusieurs ne peut être tenté si le partenaire auquel on a affaire n’est pas propriétaire de son moi — un « unique ». Le propriétaire de son moi est celui qui n’est asservi à aucun dogme, à aucune influence extérieure, à aucune pression psychologique du conglomérat sociétaire. […]

E. Armand: Collaborators and Contributors

March 30, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Collaborators featured in the Libertarian Labyrinth: Eugène Bizeau [main page] Charles-Auguste Bontemps [tag feed] Ovide Ducauroy [tag feed] Louis Estève [tag feed] Maurice Imbard [tag feed] Ixigrec (Robert Collino) [tag feed] Marius Jean [main page] Anselme Mauzé [main page] Paul Paillette [tag feed] Le Rétif (Victor Serge) [tag feed] Francis Vergas [tag feed] Henri Zisly [tag feed] Authors with articles appearing in Armand’s publications: [in progress] Louis Dalgara [Dictionnaire des anarchistes] Robert Delon [Dictionnaire des anarchistes] Le Guépin [pseudonym for E. Armand (and others?)] Emile Hamelin [Dictionnaire des anarchistes] José Ingenieros [Wikipedia] A[uguste] Laforge [Bianco] Jean Lorrain [Wikipedia] Anna Mahé […]

Enzo di Villafiore in “l’en dehors” (1924-1925)

March 25, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Bibilography: Enzo di Villafiore, “Réalisme et idéalisme anarchiste,” L’En dehors 3 no. 29/30 (20 Février 1924): 1. Enzo di Villafiore, “L’Individualisme et l’anarchie,” L’En dehors 3 no. 35 (15 Mai 1924): 4. Enzo di Villafiori et E. Armand, “Nos ‘Associations d’égoïstes’: Ce que j’entends par individualisme anarchisme,” L’En dehors 3 no. 45/46 (20 Octobre 1924): 1-2. E. A., “Aux compagnons,” L’En dehors 3 no. 47 (5 Novembre 1924): 4. [includes part of a letter by Enzo di Villafiore] Enzo di Villafiori et E. A., “La blasphème de l’Antéchrist,” L’En dehors 3 no. 49/50 (20 Décembre 1924): 2. Enzo di Villafiori, […]