THE ANARCHIST ENCYCLOPEDIA:
DANSE
Edwin Rothen
DARWINISME
J. C.
DARWINISME
Gérard de Lacaze-Duthiers
DEBACLE (FR/EN)
DEBACLE n. f. In the literal sense, the debacle is the consequence of a rise in temperature that, by causing a thaw, breaks the ice covering the rivers. This rupture splits the ice into countless blocks, which, drifting on the current, are sometimes very dangerous. In the figurative sense, the “debacle” is a synonym for ruin, disorder and confusion. The “debacle” of a government, that is the government’s powerlessness to cope with an existing situation. The “debacle” of an army, that is the abandonment of combat and the precipitous and confused flight of the troops before the enemy. “The debacle of capitalism will clear the way for the Proletariat.” “The Debacle:” a famous novel by Emile Zola. In that remarkable work, the great writer describes certain episodes of the war of 1870 and most particularly of the retreat of Sedan.
DEBINAGE
DEBINER
DEBROUILLAGE
DEBROUILLAGE
E. Armand
DECADENCE
DECADENT
DECADENT adj. That which is in decline. That which is collapsing. To fall into decadence is to gradually lose one’s strength, one’s energy, one’s power. The “Decadent Movement” formed towards the end of the 19th century by a category of writers and symbolist artists, in opposition to the literary and artistic rigidity of the Parnassians. Verlaine and Mallarmé were the masters of the “Decadents.
DECENTRALISATION
DECHANTER
DECHEANCE
DECHRISTIANISATION
E. Armand
DECHRISTIANISATION
DECISION
DECLAMATION
DECLASSE
DECLENCHER
DECLIN
DECOMPOSITION
DECORATION
DÉCOUVERTE
DÉCRASSER
DÉCRÉPITUDE
DÉCRET
DEDUCTION
DÉFAILLANCE
DÉFAITISME
DÉFAUT
DÉFECTION
DÉFENSE LÉGITIME
DÉFENSE NATIONALE
DÉFENSE RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE
Louis Loréal
DÉFI
DÉFIANCE
DÉFINITION
Han Ryner
DÉFORMATION
DÉGÉNÉRESCENCE
DÉGRÈVEMENT
DÉIFIER
DÉISME
DÉLATION
DÉLÉGATION
DÉLÉGUÉ
DÉLIBERATIF
DÉLIBERATION
DÉLIQUESCENCE
DÉLIT
DÉMAGOGIE
DEMASQUER
DÉMEMBREMENT
DÉMENCE
DÉMOCRATIE
J. Chazoff
DÉMOCRATIE (FR/EN)
DEMOCRACY. Democracy is one of the capitalist and bourgeois forms of society. The basic of democracy is the maintenance of the two opposing classes of modern society—that of labor and that of capital—and their collaboration on the foundation of capitalist private property. The expression of that collaboration is the Parliament or representative national Government.
Formally, Democracy proclaims liberty of speech, of the press and of associations, as well as the equality of all before the Law. In reality, all these liberties have a very relative character: they are tolerated as long as they do not contradict the interests of the dominant class: the bourgeoisie.
Democracy maintains intact the principle of capitalist private property. As a result, it leaves to the bourgeoisie the right to entirely hold within its grasp the press, education, science, art, which, in fact, makes the bourgeoisie absolute masters of the nation.
Having a monopoly over economic life, the bourgeoisie can also establish its unlimited power in the political domain. In fact, in the democracies, Parliament and representative Government are only the executive organs of the bourgeoisie.
Consequently, democracy is only one of the aspects of bourgeois dictatorship, mingled with the deceptive formulas of political liberties and fictitious democratic guarantees.
Peter Arshinov
DÉMON
DÉMON
DEMONIAQUE
DEMONISME
DENATURER
DENI (de justice)
DENONCIATION
DENTS, HYGIENE DENTAIRE
M. Parent
DENUEMENT
DEPENDANCE
DEPEUPLEMENT
DEPOPULATION
DEPUTE
DESARMEMENT
DESARROI
DESASTRE
DESAVEU
DESERT (FR/EN)
DESERT n. That which is very seldom frequented, sparsely populated. A deserted country; a deserted house.
We have given the dame of desert to regions that are depleted or subject to almost continuous drought. These regions naturally have an almost total absence of vegetationtation. The principal deserts of the world are the Sahara, the Kalahari, Arabia Petraea, the Gobi and the Colorado. The Sahara is made of sand dunes and rocky plateaus, and is dotted with rare oases; it is inhabited by Moors, Tuaregs and Toubous, who are in large part nomadic populations. It has a length of 5000 kilometers and a width of roughly 1400 kilometers. It is the desert par excellence. The Egyptians came to fertilize certain parts of it through irrigation; but since the crumbling of Egyption civilization agriculture has been absolutely abandoned there. The Kalahari, much less important than the Sahara, is a desert of southern Africa. It is covered with shrubby vegetation and is inhabited by the Betchuanas, belonging to the kaffir tribes of South Africa. Arabia Petraea is the central part of Arabia, and forms an immense, rocky desert plateau where a frightening heat and absolute dryness reigns. It is fortunate for this country that its coasts are particularly fertile, and there they harvest in abundance coffee, cotton, sugar can, etc., etc.…. The Gobi is a large desert in Mongolia that extends between Siberia and Manchurua, and its climate is unequal. As for the Colorado, it is a region of North America that contains important mineral wealth, but which is almost totally uninhabited.
DESERTER
DESHERITES (les)
DESHONORER
DESIDERATUM
DESILLUSION
DESINTERESSEMENT
DESINVOLTURE
DESISTEMENT
DESOBEISSANCE
DESOLIDARISER (SE)
E. Armand
DESOLIDARISER (SE)
DESORDRE
DESORGANISATION
DESPOTISME
DESSEIN
DESSIN
DESSOUS
DESTIN
DESTITUTION
DESTRUCTION
DESUETUDE
DETAILLER
DETECTIVE
DETENTEUR
DETENTION
DETENU
DETERMINER
DETERMINISME
DETERMINISME
DETERMINISME ECONOMIQUE
DETONNER
DETOUR
DETOURNER
DETRACTION
DETROUSSEUR
DETTE PUBLIQUE
DEVELOPPEMENT
DEVENIR
DEVERGONDAGE
DEVIATION
DEVISE
DEVOIR
DEVOIR
DEVOTION
DEVOUEMENT
DEXTERITE
DIABOLIQUE
DIACONESSE
DIACRE
DIAGNOSTIC
DIALECTIQUE
DIALECTIQUE
DICTATEUR
DICTATURE
DIEU
DIFFAMATION
DIFFUSION
DIGNITE
DIGRESSION
DILEMME
DILETTANTISME
DILETTANTISME
DÎME
DIPLOMATIE
DIRECTION
DIRECTIVE
DISCERNEMENT
DISCIPLE
DISCIPLINE
DISCORDE
DISCUSSION
DISPUTE
DISQUALIFIE
DIVAGATION
DIVERGENCE
DIVORCE
DIVORCE
DOCTRINAIRE
DOCTRINE
DOCUMENTATION
DOGMATISME
DOGME
DOGME
DOMESTICATION
DOMINATION
DOUANE
DRAGONNADES (Les)
DRAPEAU
DROIT
DROITS DE L’HOMME ET DU CITOYEN (Déclarations des)
DROITS DE L’HOMME ET DU CITOYEN (Ligue française pour la défense des)
DUEL (Le)
DUEL
