We do not live for ourselves—we live for others. We suffer, we struggle and we die for the gallery, to astonish others, to wrest from them a cry of admiration or praise. To appear is the great, the unique concern for the men of this century.
For the vain glory of appearing, they renounce really living. And this is true in all the domains of their activity. […]
The Anarchist Individualist Initiation E. ARMAND [ENGLISH TEXT ONLY] ☜ 3. Anarchism. Anti-authoritarian or anarchist individualism. Its aspirations. 5. Christianity and the Individualists. The pagan turn of mind. ☞ 4. Les individualistes et les réformateurs […]
The Anarchist Individualist Initiation E. ARMAND [ENGLISH TEXT ONLY] ☜ 2. The reformers and transformers of the social milieu. 4. The individualists and the reformers of the milieu social. The law of continuous progress. ☞ […]
The Anarchist Individualist Initiation E. ARMAND [ENGLISH TEXT ONLY] ☜ 1. Sketches of the Social Milieu. Harmful Authority. 3. Anarchism. Anti-authoritarian or anarchist individualism. Its aspirations. ☞ 2. Les réformateurs et les transformateurs du milieu […]
Related links: E. Armand—Main Page The Anarchist Individualist Initiation (English text only) Notes on “The Anarchist Individualist Initiation” E. Armand, “Qu’est-ce qu’un Anarchiste?” (1908) Le Rétif (Victor Serge), “To Be and to Appear” (1909) Eugène […]
Pourquoi sommes-nous anarchistes ? Les quelques lignes qui suivent ne constituent pas un programme. Elles n’ont d’autre but que de justifier l’utilité qu’il y aurait d’élaborer un projet de programme qui serait soumis à l’étude, […]
Each tendency makes its own propaganda, each association functioning as it sees fit, each paper expounding its specific claims. No polemics between persons or tendencies. Neither shop competition nor struggles to monopolize. Neither absorption, nor fusion, nor confusion. To each its place its place in the sun, its tactics, its path and its pace, its achievements and its experiences, provided that it does not entail recourse to the State or to governmental sanctions. Peace among us and war to the archists. […]
If man has rights, it is not to demand of the law — (that is to say of the arbitrary wills of others) — the permission to have them. He must determine them logically and exercise them freely, if necessary despite the law […]
Individualism does not mean isolation. When an individualist isolates themselves from certain groups at certain moments — groups which they could freely join — it is because the individuals who make up those groups do not satisfy their aspirations. […]
To spend time with anarchists, just to find oneself as miserable as among the archists—the game is not worth the candle…
To spend time with anarchists, just to be smothered in an atmosphere of intellectual mutilation or a crippling of the life of the senses—that is truly not worth the trouble.
And an Anarchist Individualist International is only possible if those who form it possess first of all have a mentality and habits of their own, very much of their own, released from concerns about experimentation, freed from the fear of living. […]
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