ΑΝΑΡΧΙΚΟΣ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΙΣΜΟΣ

by Albert Libertad, Émile Armand, André Lorulot

67 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Joseph Albert (known as Albert Libertad or simply Libertad) (1875-1908) was an individualist anarchist militant and writer from France who edited the influential anarchist publication L’Anarchie. Abandoned by his parents as a baby, Libertad was a child of the Public Assistance in Bordeaux. As a result of a childhood illness, he lost the use of his legs, but put his handicap to good use, using his crutches as weapons against the police. He moved to Paris at 21, where he soon became active in anarchist circles, going so far as to live in the offices of the journal “Le Libertaire”.

In 1905, Libertad founded what was probably the most important individualist anarchist journal, L’Anarchie. The French theorist of the Situationist International Raoul Vaneigem reports that Libertad gained notoriety for a call to action in which he "invited citizens to burn their ID papers and to become humans again, refusing to let themselves be reduced to a number, duly filed in the statistic state inventories of slaves."

He died in 1908, supposedly for a savage beating by the police.