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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. Education générale pour tous. Vie garantie à tous les enfants, vieillards ou inaptes. Celui qui veut manger, qu’il travaille. F. Internationale Individualiste. (El Unico, 12 mars 1912). Documents An individualist program Abolition of all tribute: rent, income, tithe or tax. Suppression of every military, multitudinist or employers’ institution. Abolition of every dividing line, boundary marker or border post. One single universal language. Denial of every […]
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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 la félicité, Du moment qu’il osa, d’une main criminelle ; Substituer un code à la voix paternelle. Sylvain Maréchale. All our misfortunes are due to Society: Man lost his right to happiness, At the moment when he dared, with a criminal hand; To substitute a code for the paternal voice. Sylvain Maréchal. CORRECTIF A LA RÉVOLUTION. —– A PARIS, Chez les Directeurs de l’Imprimerie du Cercle […]
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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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Utopian and Scientific

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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Sylvain Marechal, “A Book Escaped from the Deluge” (1784)

April 15, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
A BOOK ESCAPED FROM THE DELUGE, OR, NEWLY DISCOVERED PSALMS; Composed in the primitive language BY S. AR-LAMECH, Of the Family of Noah the Patriarch; TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH BY P. LAHCERAM, Parisipolitan. —– AT SIRAP Or at PARIS. [TRANSLATION IN PROGRESS] […] A BOOK ESCAPED FROM THE DELUGE. PSAUME I. Le Psalmiste annonce sa mission, & prédit les suites qu’elle aura. Dieu de Vérité ! délie ma langue ; je veux t’annoncer aux hommes. Qu’ils ne disent pas de moi : l’Apôtre de la Vérité bégaye. A l’âge où le Christ prêche sur la montagne ; longtemps avant lui, humble Disciple du plus modeste […]
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Sylvain Maréchal anticipates the “general strike”?

April 11, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
In an article on “Precursors of Anarchism” in the Encyclopédie Anarchiste, E. Armand gave an account of the career of Maréchal, including the following remarks: [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] En 1788, ses Apologues modernes à l’usage du dauphin. C’est là que se trouve l’histoire du roi qui, à la suite d’un cataclysme, renvoie chacun de ses sujets chez lui, en prescrivant que, désormais, chaque père de famille sera roi dans son foyer. C’est là que se trouve énoncé le principe de la Grève générale, comme moyen d’instaurer une société où la Terre est propriété commune de tous ses habitants, […]
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Sylvain Maréchal, “The Desert Island” (1788)

March 19, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
In the opening pages of Sylvain Maréchal’s play, The Last Judgment of Kings, we find the following notice: [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] L’idée de cette pièce est prise dans l’Apologue suivant, faisant partie des Leçons du fils ainé d’un roi, ouvrage philosophique du même auteur, publié au commencement de 1789, et mis à l’index par la Police. [/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The idea for this play is taken from the following Apologue, part of the Lessons for the Eldest Son of a King, a philosophical work by the same author, published at the beginning of 1789, and put […]