“Conviene aclarar que el anarquismo individualista jamás puede ser comparado o asociado con el individualismo burgués liberal. Existen diferencias marcadas con sangre entre ambos. El individualista burgués lo es solo a costa de la dominación y esclavización de otrxs. Lxs anarquistas individualistas al creer en la libertad extrema de cada ser, no tenemos nada que ver con eso.”
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La Rivolta delle Macchine
Han Ryner (1896)
da: L’Art Social n.3 del settembre 1896]
Han Ryner
La Rivolta delle Macchine
Il racconto
Un inedito assoluto di un autore molto interessante quanto del tutto sconosciuto nel nostro paese e su cui ritorneremo numerose volte per presentare oltre alla sua biografia anche resoconti delle sue opere e naturalmente come è ora il nostro caso, delle opere vere e proprie, non ristampate da moltissimi decenni, molto più spesso invece, inedite del tutto.
La Rivolta delle Macchine [La Révolte des Machines], è quel che oggi chiameremmo un racconto di fantascienza o come sarebbe più giusto, visto che abbiamo frequentato, a suo tempo i migliori autori e critici del genere letterario, scientific romance [romanzo scientifico], alla Jules Verne o alla Albert Robida o alla Herbert G. Wells, ecc. se non fosse che Han Ryner non scrive mai senza aver sempre ben presente, da buon anarco-stoico, il suo imperativo etico più pressante: invitare ad un approccio critico dell’esistente che coinvolga il singolo e le collettività in un rapporto senz’altro dinamico.
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Anti-patriotism by Han Ryner
Will I manage to avoid here those considerations that belong more in the articles on Fatherland and Patriotism?
Anti-patriotism was the reaction of reason and sentiment the moment patriotism reigned. It took on diverse forms in accordance with the degree to which it relied more or less consciously on individualism, on love for all men, on love for one man (as with Camille, the sister of the Horatii), or even on a reasoned or sentimental preference for the laws and morals of a foreign country.
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What An Individual Is
Han Ryner
An individual is a complex, indefinable object. And so only the individual possesses something that can without lying be called existence. As the Cynic philosophers already knew, nothing real, nothing concrete is definable.
The necessities of thought, speech, of science and action force us to act as if the definable exists. Let us consent to this, while all the while smiling at the inevitable.
But we should never forget that no word can give us the essence of a being, not even my own essence, and that no thought, whatever good will and sympathy might animate it, will ever penetrate the essence of another. Our most beautiful, strongest, most penetrating truths glory — modestly — in being but lesser lies.
The more I strive to seize the concrete, the more my formulas become complex and hesitant, then the more I become irritated at not being able to make them flexible and mobile. Whenever I pronounce absolute words I know I am speaking in the abstract and that I am speaking of the void.
(La Melée no. 29, August 1, 1919; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2005; Transcribed: by Mitch Abidor.)
Old Man Diogenes
Han Ryner (1920)
A few years ago the University of Plantopolis had a professor of foreign literature who was considered unusual. The body of a young giant, formidable and rudimentary; large, irregular, even violent traits; a passionate physiognomy, at times lightened with malice or elevated by lyricism, at other times heavy with a reflective seriousness. Long brown hair, shaggy and standing upright, an abundant and hairy beard that met it; black sparkling eyes, buried deep beneath his bushy brows; and a mouth large as a laugh or eloquence was not the thing about him that surprised most strongly or lastingly.
Dressed in a barely decent fashion he lived, in the working class quarter, in a room that a poor student would have disdained.
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Ten Minutes at Han Ryner’s
Jules Rivet
Ten Minutes at Han Ryner’s
from La Vie Littéraire et Artistique no. 13
Han Ryner’s barrel is set up on the banks of the Seine, not far from the Wine Market. Thus, the rustic habitation seems more justified than the dining habits of its occupant would suggest.
Our modern Diogenes is, in fact, if my information is correct, a naturist and water drinker.
On Individualism
Han Ryner (1913)
I mean by individualism a certain method of thought and life. Or perhaps a necessity of thought and life. Do we not live and think in the measure to which we are individualists? What is not individualist in me repeats, obeys, imitates. Even among the most passive there is doubtless a living hour where he sought within himself his reasons to obey like a cadaver. In order to annihilate his spirit, his heart, and his consciousness he had to appeal to his consciousness, his heart, and his spirit. His sole royal gesture was an abdication; his sole manifestation of life was suicide. And yet, in order to cease being a man he had for one minute to perceive that he was a man.
Mini-Manual of Individualism
Han Ryner (1905)
I have adopted the question and answer format, so handy for rapid exposition. In this case it not an expression of any dogmatic pretensions: we won’t find here a master who interrogates and a disciple who responds. There is an individualist questioning himself. In the first line I wanted to indicate that it was a question of an interior dialogue. While the catechism asks: “Are you Christian?” I say “Am I individualist?” However, prolonged this procedure would bring with it some inconvenience and, having laid out my intention, I remembered that the soliloquy often employs the second person.
One will find pell mell in this book truths that are certain but whose certainty can only be discovered in oneself and opinions that are probable. There are problems that admit of several responses. Others — aside from the heroic solution, which can be advised only when all else is crime — lack an entirely satisfactory solution and the approximations I propose are not superior to other approximations: I don’t insist on mine. The reader who is incapable of separating them out and, acquiescing to truths, finding the probabilities analogous to my probabilities and in many cases more harmonious for him would not be worthy of the name of individualist.
Anti-patriotism
Han Ryner (1934)
Will I manage to avoid here those considerations that belong more in the articles on Fatherland and Patriotism?
Anti-patriotism was the reaction of reason and sentiment the moment patriotism reigned. It took on diverse forms in accordance with the degree to which it relied more or less consciously on individualism, on love for all men, on love for one man (as with Camille, the sister of the Horatii), or even on a reasoned or sentimental preference for the laws and morals of a foreign country.
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The Revolt of the Machines
Han Ryner (1896)
Back then, Durdonc, the Great Engineer of Europe, believed he had found the principle that would allow him to eliminate all human labor. But his initial experiment killed him before the secret was discovered.
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