Individualist Anarchist Initiation

I’ve started posting consecutive sections from E. Armand’s The Individualist Anarchist Initiation on the Libertarian Library blog. I started translating back in October, with the section on reciprocity, and promised at that point to begin at the beginning and work my way through the book. A number of things have intervened, most of them exciting and worthwhile, like the Bakunin project (about which there should be more news soonish), but here we go: Some lines of introduction Sketches of the Social Environment [2018 update — See the link above for the translations.] It’s a big book, with 279 numbered sections, […]

   THE INDIVIDUALIST ANARCHIST INITIATION PART ONE THE THEORETICAL BASES OF ANARCHIST INDIVIDUALISM 1. Sketches of the Social Environment, Harmful Authority. 1) The social milieu. A chaos of beings, facts and ideas; a harsh, disorderly struggle, without mercy; a perpetual lie; a wheel which turns blindly, one day lifting one to the pinnacle and the next crushing one ruthlessly. A mass, rich and poor, slaves of age-old, inherited prejudices, the first because they find their interests there, and the others because they are immersed in an ignorance from which one does not want they leave; a multitude whose religion is […]