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Title: To Be Anarchist
Author: Jean Marius
Date: May 1927
Language: en
Topics: Libertarian Labyrinth
Source: Retrieved from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/jean-marius-etre-anarchiste-1927/
Notes: L’En dehors 6 no. 108 (début Mai 1927): 3.

Jean Marius

To Be Anarchist

Following a meeting in which the speaker reproached the anarchist

individualists for promoting the crushing of the weak by the strong, for

giving free rein to brutal instincts, I was led to clarify what I meant

by “being anarchist.”

For me, to be anarchist is to reject all external authority. But that

does not imply the absence of all ethics. While its sense differs from

that of the masters and shepherds, we do, however, have our own ethics,

since we desire that individuals mutually insure the greatest possible

sum of pleasures and happiness without encroaching on the liberty of

other; since, to constraint, we oppose liberty.