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E. Armand, “Plan for an Anarchist Individualist International” (1927)

June 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

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. […]

An Individualist Program (El Unico, 1912)

June 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Documents Un programme individualiste Abolition of tout tribut : loyer, rente, dime ou impôt. Suppression de toute institution militaire, multitudiniste ou patronale. Abolition de tout démarcation : borne, poteau-frontière. Une seule langue universelle. Négation de tout titre. […]

Sylvain Maréchal, “Corrective to the Revolution” (1793)

June 10, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ A translation in progress. ] [Sylvain Maréchal: Pastoral Simplicity and Patriarchal Government (author page)] CORRECTIF A LA REVOLUTION CORRECTIVE TO THE REVOLUTION Tous nos malheurs sont dûs la Société: L’homme perdit ses droite à […]

On the Subject of the Anarchist Synthesis (1929)

May 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

You have sent me The Anarchist Synthesis, by Sébastien Faure, dated February 20, 1928, and I am sure that you will republish this remarkable document or at least that you will make its contents known to your readers. On that conditions, allow me to put forward some remarks on this subject, which is certainly of a capital interest for the anarchist movement in all nations. […]

Joseph Déjacque, “Essay on Religion” (1861)

May 20, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

What is Religion today? It is the immutable synthesis of all errors, ancient and modern, the affirmation of absolutist arbitrariness, the negation of attractional anarchism, it is the principle and consecration of every inertism in humanity and universality, the petrification of the past, its permanent immobilization. […]

Sylvain Marechal, “A Book Escaped from the Deluge” (1784)

April 15, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

A BOOK ESCAPED FROM THE DELUGE, OR, NEWLY DISCOVERED PSALMS; Composed in the primitive language BY S. AR-LAMECH, Of the Family of Noah the Patriarch; TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH BY P. LAHCERAM, Parisipolitan. —– AT SIRAP […]

Sylvain Maréchal anticipates the “general strike”?

April 11, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In an article on “Precursors of Anarchism” in the Encyclopédie Anarchiste, E. Armand gave an account of the career of Maréchal, including the following remarks: [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] En 1788, ses Apologues modernes […]

Sylvain Maréchal, “The Desert Island” (1788)

March 19, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In the opening pages of Sylvain Maréchal’s play, The Last Judgment of Kings, we find the following notice: [one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] L’idée de cette pièce est prise dans l’Apologue suivant, faisant partie des […]

Sylvain Maréchal, “The Dwarf King” and “A Lesson in Architecture” (1788)

March 18, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In those days, a young king was inclined to dissipation, even to villainy; it was a hereditary vice. The états-généraux, natural guardians of the sovereign, who had never been emancipated from them, assembled & agreed on a means of correcting the young prince. […]

Sylvain Maréchal, “The Pig-Keeper King” (1788)

March 18, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

In those days, a young king was inclined to dissipation, even to villainy; it was a hereditary vice. The états-généraux, natural guardians of the sovereign, who had never been emancipated from them, assembled & agreed on a means of correcting the young prince. One day, when he had abandoned himself completely to his foul penchants, and was plunged into a deep sleep, they seized his royal person; from his palace, they transported him on a litter, still sleeping, to a stable. […]