The individual in the Socialist society is a small book, an Essay by
Oscar Wilde (Dublin 1856, Paris 1900), published in the FortnightlyReview of London in 1891, reprinted and published by the AssociazioneCulturale Sicilia Punto L, in the Edizioni La Fiaccola, Anteo series,Ragusa, June 2006, with a drawing by Giordana Blanca Libera Gurrieri onthe cover and a note by Domenico Tarantini. ---- Oscar Wilde, a Dandywho had made aesthetics, beauty in literature and in life his figure,that figure which becomes and contaminates every aspect of culture,ideas, politics and life. In this short essay of a political andeconomic nature of just 61 pages, he contemplates and claims a utopiandimension of society, arguing that only the individual puts life intoaction, living in the present, outside the patriarchal culture, whichcontributes to realizing the Anarchist utopia, in which theanti-authoritarian principles and ideals of Anarchist individualismliberate themselves politically by conscious choice of existence as anend in itself, living according to themselves and not settling for justexisting, because authority and authoritarianism is always degrading, itdegrades both those who exercise it and those who suffer it, above allbecause the lack of individuality involves the falsification of lifebased on the common norm.For Wilde there are three types of despots, the first is the one whotyrannizes bodies, the second souls, the third tyrannizes both bodiesand souls. The first is called Prince, the second Pope, the thirdPeople. Referring to his Century, he cites various intellectuals whohave cultivated, developed and realized their own individuality withrespect to the integration of many others, among them the naturalist andanthropologist Charles Darwin, the romantic poet John Keats, thephilosopher and philologist Ernest Renan, the writer Gustave Flaubert,whom Wilde sees as examples of free individuals, despite the rigidmorality and cultural repression of the Victorian age, forgetting JohnRuskin, who was his Professor at the University of Oxford, influenced byUtopian Socialism, who Ruskin professed in a Christian key.According to Wilde, the non-positive emotions of the majority of menprevail over intelligence, up to the identification and mechanicalwelding with the politics of "sad passions", and not with free thought,consequently only in utopian Socialism can the private property intopublic property, being the primary source of inequalities andresentments, because the recognition of private property has harmedindividualism, identifying man with what he possesses, giving him profitand not the advancement of his purpose. In utopian Socialism, Wildecontinues to write, "its value will not be measured by material things",the institution of marriage will be abolished, an absurd institution,which does not allow the individual to love freely, recognizing in theindividual's disobedience a great virtue, in contrast to the biblical"original sin", to be able to bring society back to its naturaldimension of development and ensure the material well-being of eachmember of the community. Only in libertarian socialism will thatanti-authoritarian authority develop which will allow the individual toexpand the self, that creative dynamic becoming, which will no longerallow him to suffer the "industrial tyranny" and the consequent wars ofthe bosses, but also of his tools of oppression, therefore of thatScience folded to its own ends, freeing him from the slavery of work,making the machines work, and not the individual, because it is morallyoffensive for man / woman, to do something in which he does not feelpleasure, for which culture will have that due role, which will alloweach individual to feed his own "power", to become a philosopher, poet,artist, scientist. Above all, it is necessary to have the due sympathyfor the "joy", that "armed joy" of ideas and the practice of ideas, tobe intensified and transmitted and infecting the multitude, the world,to create that Anarchist and Libertarian society sooner or later to come.This short essay by Wilde greatly irritated the British aristocracy,which certainly influenced the bourgeois justice of the time, which at atrial against him, in which he was accused of homosexual practice,sentenced him to two years of forced labor, forced labor which theydebilitated and destroyed him physically and intellectually, pushing himout of the cultural, artistic and political scene, with his death atjust 46 years old."Utopia? A world map that does not include the country of Utopia is noteven worth a glance, because it ignores the only country to whichhumanity has ever landed. And when Humanity casts anchor, immediatelyseeing a better Utopia, it sets sail again". This Aphorism can be foundon page 30 of the book mentioned above.Robert Bellassaihttps://www.sicilialibertaria.it/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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