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Louis-Auguste Blanqui, dit Auguste Blanqui, surnommé « l’Enfermé », né le 8 février 1805 à Puget-Théniers et mort le 1er janvier 1881 à Paris, est un révolutionnaire socialiste français, souvent associé à tort aux socialistes utopiques. Il défend pour l'essentiel les mêmes idées que le mouvement socialiste du XIXe siècle. Il fait partie des socialistes non-marxistes. L'historien Michel Winock le classe comme un des fondateurs de l'extrême gauche française qui s'oppose aux élections démocratiques, les considérant comme « bourgeoises », et qui aspire à l'« égalité sociale réelle ».

Après 1830, encore étudiant, Blanqui fait le constat que la révolution ne pourra traduire la volonté du peuple que par la violence, : « l'interdiction politique » qui place le peuple sans garantie, sans défense, devant « l'odieuse domination des privilégiés », conduit fatalement à la lutte. Il fut, en conséquence de ses tentatives insurrectionnelles, emprisonné une grande partie de son existence, ce qui lui a donné le surnom de « l’Enfermé ». Il est à l'origine du blanquisme.

En 1880, il publie le journal Ni Dieu ni Maître dont le titre est devenu une référence pour le mouvement anarchiste,. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. février 1805 – 1. janvier 1881
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Auguste Blanqui: Citations en anglais

“He who has iron, has bread. People bow down before bayonets; a disarmed crowd is swept aside. But a France bristling with workers in arms means the advent of socialism. In the presence of armed proletarians, all obstacles, resistances and impossibilities will disappear.”

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"Warning to the People" (1851)

“A revolution determines, within the social body, an instantaneous process of reorganisation akin to the tumultuous combinations of the elements of a dissolved body that then tend to recompose themselves in a new form.1 This process cannot begin as long as a breath of life animates the old aggregation. As a result, the ideas that would reconstitute society will never take shape so long as a cataclysm, by dealing the old, decrepit society a mortal blow, has not freed the captive elements whose spontaneous and rapid fermentation will organise the new world. All the powers of thought, all the greatest efforts of intelligence are unable to anticipate this creative phenomenon that can break out at any given moment. One can prepare the cradle, but not bring to life the long-awaited being. Right up until the moment of death and rebirth, the doctrines [that will serve as the] bases of the future society remain vague aspirations, distant and hazy glimpses. They are like a blurred and floating silhouette on the horizon, the contours of which cannot be determined or grasped by human efforts.”

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On Revolution (1850)

“For in the end what is at issue in this idea of the cooperative is as clear as day. It is a means of preparing the daily bourgeois stew [pot-au-feu bourgeois] at all costs, divorced from any political thought, from any revolutionary struggle. It is the political and social abdication of the proletariat under the pretext of socialism; indeed it is not even that! Everyone is careful to insist and to prove that socialism has nothing to do with it, which is the truth.”

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"Letter to Blanqui’s Supporters in Paris" (18 April 1866)

“I am accused of having told thirty million French people, proletarians like me, that they had the right to live.”

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"Auguste Blanqui’s Defence Speech at the ‘Trial of the Fifteen’" (12 January 1832)

“Students, young people, have the right to join together in order to guide their efforts towards a common goal, and they will use this right. As for their goal, it is simple: for them it is a matter of ensuring that the July revolution is not a lie; every edifice built by the Empire and the Restoration must be overthrown, and since not one single stone of this edifice is yet to fall, they will work indefatigably to demolish and destroy it. We call for the destruction of the university. We call for the destruction of the country’s most odious and harmful monopoly, of that which stifles civilization at its source and which is the cruellest insult inflicted on human intelligence.”

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"Declaration of the Provisional Committee for Schools" (1831)

“Humanity … is never stationary. Its progressive march leads it to equality. Its regressive march goes back through every stage of privilege to human slavery, the final word of the right to property.”

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in "August Blanqui, Heretical Communist," Radical Philosophy 185 (2014)

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