It is true that when he no longer was in favour with the Communist Party, his Stalinist ex-comrades also called him a “jackal with a pen” and a “typewriting hyena”. In the French anarchist movement, he has always been considered as a “crapule stalinienne” (“Stalinist scoundrel”). “The collective memory of the movement has retained no trace of a rapprochement between Sartre and anarchism. So I asked a lot of comrades - old timers like me or academics - about Sartre’s alleged “anarchism”. At first sight this seemed totally incongruous to me: indeed, I have been a libertarian activist for over 50 years and I had never heard such a thing. I recently discovered from an exchange of emails with a friend in the United States that some English-language scholars recognise Jean-Paul Sartre as an anarchist thinker.
I apologise to readers for the digressions that are scattered throughout this text and which may not have much to do with the substance of the subject. Remley's book, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Anarchist Philosophy, but it has gone beyond this intention and taken on an unexpected dimension. This paper was originally intended only as a commentary on W.L. For this reason, my vision of anarchism must seem very obsolete, and perhaps very rigid, if not shocking to the North American reader, whose references and tradition of anarchism will probably be very different from mine. My early years of militancy were immersed in the company of veterans of the Russian Revolution and the Spanish Civil War.Ģ. Indeed, I was formed in my young days by militants who, in the twenties and thirties, had been active as revolutionary syndicalists in the French CGT, as anarchosyndicalists in the Spanish CNT. The anarchism to which I refer could be called specifically “Latin” in the sense that my cultural references in terms of anarchism are essentially French, Spanish, Italian and Latin American. I am well aware that my discourse on anarchism may be misunderstood by North American readers, for at least two reasons.ġ.
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