I Am An Individualist
I am an #individualist.
Society is a figment devised by the #individual.
#Society is an abstraction.
The individual is a #unity.
I write in relation to the #anarchist. The #dogmatic, the #conventional, the #sectarian, etc., are not, nor can they be, #individualities, even if they would daub their “poses” in more or less deep shades of red.
#Individualism does not mean isolation. When an individualist isolates themselves from certain #groups at certain moments — groups which they could freely join — it is because the individuals who make up those groups do not satisfy their aspirations.
#Anarchy and individualism are synonyms of one another.
Society today prevents us from living in #harmony with our own #satisfactions.
That is why we are its enemies.
The men of the #future could see something useful in society. But they could never see in society an obstacle to their satisfactions, for they will understand that society cannot have a value that surpasses that of the individuals who give it existence.
- Aurora, L’En dehors 4 no. 51 (15 janvier 1925) : 1; reprinted L’en dehors 18 no. 329 (Avril 1939): 47. Working Translation by Shawn P. Wilbur
