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Renzo Novatore, “Je… / I…”

March 19, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Je… Je fus toujours celui que je fus, et je serai celui que je pourrai être ; car deux sujets relatifs seuls sont vrais: le soleil ne pourrait être la lune, mais si par hypothèse il la devait devenir, il ne serait plus le soleil. Qui est-ce donc qui veut dévier mon cours ? N’endiguez pas les fleuves, à vous qui avez du bon sens. Laissez courir la violence joyeuse sur son lit tranquille. Ne voyez-vous pas comme elle chante allègrement en se hâtant vers son océan ? Je vous le dis, ô sages : Ne rendez pas tragique ce […]

Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism — No. 3

July 14, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Life as experience tears up programs, treads decorum under foot, breaks the windows, descends from the ivory tower. It abandons the City of Established Facts, out through the Gate of Settled Matters and roams, vagabond, in the open countryside of the Unforeseen.” Rambles in the Fields of Anarchist Individualism: Project page Related links: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State E. Armand, “Life as Experience” (1906) Renzo Novatore, “Intellectual Vagabonds” (1917) “Note on Mutualism and the Market-Form“ “A passage missing from The Theory of Property“ “Proudhon on the State in 1861“ “Authority, Liberty and the Federative Principle“ “Anarchy: Historical, Abstract and […]

Renzo Novatore, “Anarchist Individualism in the Social Revolution” (1919)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

1 Anarchist individualism as we understand it – and I say we because a substantial handful of friends think this like me – is hostile to every school and every party, every churchly and dogmatic moral, as well as every more or less academic imbecility. Every form of discipline, rule and pedantry is repulsive to the sincere nobility of our vagabond and rebellious restlessness! Individualism is, for us, creative force, immortal youth, exalting beauty, redemptive and fruitful war. It is the marvelous apotheosis of the flesh and the tragic epic of the spirit. Our logic is that of not having […]