lunes, 31 de octubre de 2011

Charles-Auguste Bontemps, french individualist anarchist


Charles-Auguste Bontemps (1893 Nievre-1981 )was a french individualist anarchist, pacifist, freethinker-atheist and naturist writer and activist. He wrote alongside the anarcho-communist Maurice Joyeux the founding principles of the Federation Anarchiste. Among the publications in which he wrote include Le Monde libertaire, Liberté, Le Droit de vivre, La Raison, Le Réfractaire. He defended what he called "social individualism" and "a collectivism of things and an individualism of persons".

More on Bontemps here in an entry on him in french at the International Dictionary of Anarchist Militants. Source of the photo here.

domingo, 23 de octubre de 2011

Enrico Arrigoni, italian-american individualist anarchist



Arrigoni is the one on the right with the newspaper. In this photo he is alongside italian anarchist Franco Leggio (left)

Source of this photo http://anarca-bolo.ch/a-rivista/335/54.htm

For more information on Arrigoni visit the wikipedia article on him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Arrigoni

or his entry at Paul Avrich. Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
http://books.google.com/books?id=8z8mdUYp-6gC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=enrico+arrigoni+totalitarian&source=bl&ots=cWwnaU_6sG&sig=Nc944GY6DvsWr0vHpVKcJd6z_Kw&hl=en&ei=_p4KTovsE8Tq0gGNrJGTAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=enrico%20arrigoni%20totalitarian&f=true