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Aurora, “I Am an Individualist” (1925)

June 14, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Individualism does not mean isolation. When an individualist isolates themselves from certain groups at certain moments — groups which they could freely join — it is because the individuals who make up those groups do not satisfy their aspirations.

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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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An Individualist Program (El Unico, 1912)

June 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Documents Un programme individualiste Abolition of tout tribut : loyer, rente, dime ou impôt. Suppression de toute institution militaire, multitudiniste ou patronale. Abolition de tout démarcation : borne, poteau-frontière. Une seule langue universelle. Négation de tout titre. […]

Sylvain Maréchal, “Corrective to the Revolution” (1793)

June 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ A translation in progress. ] [Sylvain Maréchal: Pastoral Simplicity and Patriarchal Government (author page)] CORRECTIF A LA REVOLUTION CORRECTIVE TO THE REVOLUTION Tous nos malheurs sont dûs la Société: L’homme perdit ses droite à […]

On the Subject of the Anarchist Synthesis (1929)

May 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

You have sent me The Anarchist Synthesis, by Sébastien Faure, dated February 20, 1928, and I am sure that you will republish this remarkable document or at least that you will make its contents known to your readers. On that conditions, allow me to put forward some remarks on this subject, which is certainly of a capital interest for the anarchist movement in all nations.

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Joseph Déjacque, “Essay on Religion” (1861)

May 20, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

What is Religion today? It is the immutable synthesis of all errors, ancient and modern, the affirmation of absolutist arbitrariness, the negation of attractional anarchism, it is the principle and consecration of every inertism in humanity and universality, the petrification of the past, its permanent immobilization.

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Pierre Leroux, “De l’Union européenne” / “Of the European Union” (1827)

May 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Decentralizing empires, establishing in each province, in each city its own activity, and at the same time breaking down the barriers that separate nations, this is what liberty, science and industry aim for: so that, if their triumph was complete, we could say of the great society of men what Pascal said of the universe: Center everywhere, circumference nowhere.

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