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Title: The Anarchists’ Ideal Author: Marius Jean Date: 1929 Language: en Topics: idealism, introductory, Libertarian Labyrinth Source: Retrieved on 2020-06-11 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/marius-jean-the-anarchists-ideal-1929/ Notes: “L’idéal de l’anarchiste” L’en dehors No. 150 (January, 1929): 8. Working Translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.
As a passionate lover of truth, beauty and liberty, the anarchist
struggles for the establishment of an environment within which
individuals would be free from all constraint and all authority outside
of themselves, an environment in which each individual could rid
themselves of all the metaphysical ideas to which, even today, they feel
bound to sacrifice themselves. One puts her faith in law and justice and
leaves to their representatives the trouble of regulating their affairs
and guaranteeing her happiness. Another places all his confidence in a
divine creator, for whom he is always ready to sacrifice himself. In
both cases, the happiness of the individual depends on a power external
to itself, whether than power is divine or human. This explains why
human beings do not evolve; and it will be this way as long as they
leave to others the task of thinking and acting for them. Thanks to
their analytical mind, their breadth of vision, the anarchists develop
an entirely different conception of life. And they denounce at every
opportunity the malign nature of these mirages. They strive to reveal to
others the true place that they should occupy in nature and in the
present society; to make them conscious of their own worth, to create
within them the need for individual liberation. That is the task to
which the anarchists dedicate themselves, the ideal that they pursue.