Augustin Hamon
Augustin Frédéric Hamon was a French socialist-anarchist writer and editor.
Hamon founded the anarchist magazine L'Humanité nouvelle in 1897, and edited it until 1903.
Hamon met George Bernard Shaw for the first time at a Fabian Congress in London in 1894. From 1904 onwards he and his wife Henriette translated Shaw's work into French.
Hamon was a proponent of using antisemitism to appeal to a mass audience, arguing in an 1898 interview that "With the petty bourgeois especially, anti-Judaism is the road to Socialism...the stage through which the petty bourgeois passes before becoming a Socialist".
His papers are held at the International Institute of Social History.Works
- Les hommes et les théories du l'anarchie, 1893
- Psychologie de l'anarchiste-socialiste, 1895
- La psychologie du militaire professionnel, 1894
- Patrie et Internationalisme, 1896
- Un Anarchisme, fraction du socialisme, 1896
- Une enquête sur la guerre et le militarisme, 1899. Reprinted 1972.
- The Universal Illusion of Free Will and Criminal Responsibility. 1899.
- The twentieth century Molière: Bernard Shaw, 1911
- The technique of Bernard Shaw's plays, 1912
- Lessons of the world-war, 1917
