La Révolte

Working Translations

Daniel Saurin, “Order through Anarchy” (1893)

February 4, 2026 Shawn P. Wilbur
I have seen the title L’Ordre par l’Anarchie — published in the “Bibliothèque Anarchiste” of La Révolte —  in the back pages of various anarchist communist papers from the 1890s, but had never tracked it down… it is a very interesting attempt to construct an anarchist ethics on a “natural rights” foundation…

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Bourgeois Oligarchy (La Révolte, July 1871)

December 18, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur
BOURGEOIS OLIGARCHY —– It is obvious that liberty will not be restored to the world and that the real interests of society, of all the groups, of all the local organizations, as well as all the individuals who form society, could find real satisfaction only after the abolition of the State. It is obvious that all the so-called general interests of society, that the State is supposed to represent, and that, in reality, are nothing but the general and constant negation of the positive interests of the regions, provinces, communes, associations and the majority of individuals subject to the State, […]