The anarchist is neither a scholar, nor a therapist, nor a geometer, nor a worker. He is a being who “wants to live,” but to live as a misfit, as an insubordinate, as an undisciplined person, as a rebel, as an original.
Written sometime around 1858, since Proudhon cites the recent publication of 1848 : Historical revelations: inscribed to Lord Normanby, which appeared in that year, “Qu’est-ce que enfin que la République?” seems to have remained an unpublished manuscript until it was included in the posthumous collection Napoléon III, which is a bit of a hodgepodge, with some changes in formatting and some apparent errors in transcription. For this working page, I have tried to restore the majority of the text to the form present in the manuscript, but, for my own purposes, I have included both the uninterrupted program of La […]
Les Négateurs de Maîtres Chanson 1 Qu’ils portent panache ou hermine, Devant les dirigeants, bien bas Ebloui’, la foule s’incline, Mais de la foul’ non, nous n’somm’s pas! Nous somm’s les Négateurs de maitres, Les Insoumis, les Indomptés, Ceux qui ne veul’nt ni chefs ni prêtres, Les éternell’ment révoltés! REFRAIN Nous somm’s les Négateurs de maîtres, Les En dehors que rien n’a pu dompter Céux qui ne veul’nt ni chefs, ni dictateurs ni prètres Ni obéir ni commander! 2 Logiqu’s, les nôtres à personne N’ veul’nt imposer leur opinion, Puisque, sincèr’, tu la trouv’s bonne, Fais, autrui, s’lon ta conviction. […]