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Title: Reflections on Anarchism Author: Maurice Imbard Date: 15th March 1931 Language: en Topics: introductory, Libertarian Labyrinth Source: Retrieved on 2020-06-11 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/maurice-imbard-reflections-on-anarchism-1931/ Notes: Maurice Imbard, “Réflexions sur l’anarchisme,” l’en dehors 10 no. 202–203 (15 mars, 1931): 13. [Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur]
Among the numerous social doctrines and ideas, anarchism is the one that
that has the most trouble introducing itself—infiltrating, I might
say—into say. It must be said that the easy assimilation of the mass of
other ideas comes from the fact that those others take care to preserve
customs, conventions and beliefs rather similar to those that contribute
to the maintenance of the current social state—a most defective social
state, as all will agree.
So no one will be surprised that anarchism can count numerous
adversaries, for the ensemble of ideas that constitute the anarchist
ideology contrast ironically with the erroneous and mystical ideas of
our contemporaries. It is a question, in effect, of the edification of a
clear and rational mentality, drawing the power of its reason to be from
science, from the observation and deep study of the natural phenomena
that appeal to our curiosity.
In a word, anarchism is the negation of all the productions of the
imagination, birthed by ignorance and especially by the absence of
intellectual culture.
It should come as no surprise that its logic provokes an uproar of
imprecations, for that logic demands that all rid themselves of the
bonds, the swaddling clothes that grip them, that all break the habits
acquired through a superficial and even misbegotten education.
It is because of the conditions required that the number of anarchists
increases more slowly than that of socialists and communists and because
the study of anarchist philosophy, though very simple, appears quite
complex, because its adaptation, its absorption is more difficult.
Many brains are not accustomed to contemplating the destruction and
disappearance of the social and moral institutions that delimit their
thought and lives. However, despite the laws of heredity, which wants us
to be like our ancestors, and even in defiance of them, the natural law
of adaptation will strengthen the anarchist idea, assisted more and more
by the application of scientific knowledge and discoveries—or at least
we are convinced of it.