I went to read Armand, because I remembered him being the type to be critical of the type of Anarchism which Shawn promotes. Instead, I was reminded of an exchange I had with u/subrosa not too long ago.
As the word “anarchy” etymologically signifies the negation of governmental authority, the absence of government, it follows that one indissoluble bond unites the anarchists. This is antagonism to all situations regulated by imposition, constraint, violence, governmental oppression, whether these are a product of all, a group, or of one person.
But this definition would have only a negative value did it not possess as a practical complement, a conscious attempt to live outside this domination and servility which are incompatible with the anarchist conception. An anarchist, therefore, is an individual who, whether he has been brought to it by a process of reasoning or by sentiment, lives to the greatest possible extent in a state of legitimate defense against authoritarian encroachments. From this it that anarchist individualism — the tendency which we believe contains the most profound realization of the anarchist idea — is not merely a philosophical doctrine — it is an attitude, an individual way of life.
Fool wrote
I went to read Armand, because I remembered him being the type to be critical of the type of Anarchism which Shawn promotes. Instead, I was reminded of an exchange I had with u/subrosa not too long ago.
I might reread Armand.