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Paraf-Javal, “Authority” (1907)
To date, all societies have been established according the principle of authority. Even what we mistakenly call socialism is as form of this principle. The delegation of its powers to a minority charged with distributing everything in the best interests of the collectivity (collectivism), amounts to an abandonment of its rights. The comrades who distribute will be privileged, governors and oppressors, while the others will be exploited, governed and oppressed. […]
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“Protest of the Mutuellistes” (1834)
The Society of the Mutuellistes of Lyon, placed by the mere fact of their will outside the political circle, thought they should fear not aggression on the part of the men in power, when the law against the associations came to reveal their error to them; that monstrous law, a work of the most savage vandalism, violating the most sacred rights, orders the members of that society to break the links that unite them and separate! The Mutuellistes have had to investigate and deliberate. […]
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Gaston Leval, “La crise permanente de l’anarchisme”
[This is a work-page, for use by the Anarchist French-Translation Workshop on FB.]
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Ricardo Mella, “Collectivism and Communism: Anarchists in Spain” (1900)
Les Temps Nouveaux, Literary Supplement, October, 1900 Working Translation by Shawn P. Wilbur
Anarchist Encyclopedia
L’Œuvre Internationale des Editions anarchistes in “La Revue Anarchiste” (1924-1925)
Every manifestation of anarchist propaganda—by speech, by writing, by action—must therefore have a global impact and a universal significance.
In practice, this is not the case and, as a result, anarchists are only informed about anarchist movement and action in the countries where they live and are little, badly or even completely uneducated about what happens in other countries.
One of the causes of this regrettable state of things — and it is not the least of them — is the diversity of languages. […]
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E. Armand, The Anarchist Individualist Initiation — I
A chaos of beings, facts and ideas; a harsh, disorderly struggle, without mercy; a perpetual lie; a wheel that turns blindly, one day lifting us to the pinnacle and the next crushing us ruthlessly. […]
encyclopedia entries
Anarchist Encyclopedia: Action
Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia ACTION n. f. « Au commencement était l’action » dit Gœthe. Ce qui distingue les vivants des morts. Ne pas agir, c’est ne pas vivre, c’est se suicider. Agir, c’est […]
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Charles-Auguste Bontemps, “Synthèse d’un anarchisme évolutif” (1952)
Synthèse d’un anarchisme évolutif Pour être une permanence, pour durer et satisfaire le cœur et la pensée de qui lui consacre son effort et en fait la loi de sa vie, un anarchisme doit être […]