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Albert Soubervielle, “Vivre / To Live” (1923)

July 19, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Most people submit, blissfully follow the path that was laid out for them beforehand, disputing nothing and taking their place in the ranks assigned to them in the herd. They are perfect citizens, respectful of the catechisms taught and the laws imposed, but we could not see in them beings living according to nature and reason.

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E. Armand, “Points de repère” (Le Libertaire, 1924)

September 11, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Points de repère Sympathie et Compassion Témoigner de la sympathie, de la compassion, non pas à tout le monde, sans discernement, vaguement, mais à des êtres qui nous intéressent ou auxquels nous nous sentons liés par des affinités d’un genre ou d’un autre — cela n’est aucune une preuve de faiblesse ou de « sensiblerie», c’est simplement mettre en œuvre notre appareil sentimental. Il y a plus de véritable force à montrer, en certains cas bien déterminés, de la tendresse et de l’affection, qu’à fuir cette « expérience ». J’estime que celui qui témoigne de la sympathie — dans le […]

E. Armand, “Pour faire réfléchir” (Le Libertaire, 1922-1925)

September 10, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Between October 1922 and March 1925, E. Armand contributed a series articles to Le Libertaire under the title “Pour faire réfléchir,” and these articles were among those drawn upon for the 1926 collection Fleurs de solitude et Points de repère. This title — which indicates food for thought — appeared in a number of the anarchist periodicals with which Armand was affiliated. Often it topped a quotation from published works, often of historical significance. Early in the run of l’en dehors, it marked a series of brief reflections by “Gabriel.” In La Voix libertaire it was the name of a […]

Joseph Déjacque, Short prose works from “Le Libertaire” (1858)

May 21, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Le Libertaire 1 no. 1 (June 9, 1858) Le Libertaire (1274 words)(signed) Beaucoup d’appelés et peu de venus (943 words) Le Père Enfantin et le Père Félix (136 words) Bourgeois contre Bourgeois (193 words) Un nouveau livre de J. P. Proudhon. Nous voudrions pouvoir parler à nos lecteurs du dernier livre de Proudhon : De la Justice dans la Révolution et dans l’Eglise. Malheureusement, nous n’en connaissons que le titre et les quelques lignes de la dédicace publiée par la Revue de l’Ouest. Si quelqu’un avait un exemplaire de cet ouvrage en sa possession et qu’il voulût nous faire un plaisir, […]

Joseph Déjacque, The Servile War

December 30, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The Servile War. Joseph Déjacque Property is robbery. Slavery is murder. P. J. Proudhon. We are Abolitionists from the North, come to take and release your slaves; our organization is large, and must succeed. I suffered much in Kansas, and expect to suffer here, in the cause of human freedom. Slaveholders I regard as robbers and murderers; and I have sworn to abolish slavery and liberate my fellow-men. John Brown. A handful of free soilers have just attempted a relief of slaves on the frontiers of Virginia and Maryland. They […]

Joseph Déjacque, on “Exchange” (1858)

December 30, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] EXCHANGE Joseph Déjacque (from Le Libertaire, No. 6, September 21, 1858) “Be then frankly an entire anarchist and not a quarter anarchist, an eighth anarchist, or one-sixteenth anarchist, as one is a one-fourth, one-eighth or one-sixteenth partner in trade. Go beyond the abolition of contract to the abolition not only of the sword and of capital, but also of property and of authority in all its forms. Then you will have arrived at the anarchist community; that is to say, the social state where each one is free to produce or […]