I’ve just posted a translation of selections from The Philosophy of Defiance, an 1854 anarchist pamphlet published in New York and written by a French exile who signed the work “Felix P…..” Max Nettlau discovered the text, and published portions of it in La Revue Anarchiste for July, 1922. That’s fortunate, because the original text seems to be rare to the point of nonexistence, and because it’s a very interesting example of early anarchist thought.
encyclopedia entries
Anarchist Encyclopedia: INDIVIDUALISM (or Communism?)
Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia INDIVIDUALISME (ou Communisme ?) Depuis longtemps j’ai été frappé par le contraste existant entre la largeur des buts de l’anarchisme et de bien-être pour tous — et l’étroitesse du programme […]
Working Translations
Benjamin R. Tucker, “Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?” (FR/EN)
Our era demands imperatively an economic solution. No movement of social transformation will gain immense proportions if it does not first satisfy that demand. That is why the “immense movement, truly anarchist in sentiment” that Max Nettlau proclaims as “absolutely indispensable well before the question of economic remedies arises” appears to me absolutely impossible.
Anarchism
Max Nettlau, Anarchism: Communist or Individualist?—Both
ANARCHISM: COMMUNIST OR INDIVIDUALIST?—BOTH By Max Nettlau. ANARCHISM is no longer young, and it may be time to ask ourselves why, with all the energy devoted to its propaganda, it does not spread more rapidly. […]