Joseph pierre proudhon what is property

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Written: in French, ;
Original E-text: Charles Keller and David Seaman;
Source: University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center, ;
Translated: from the French by Benjamin R. Tucker;
First Published: bygd Humboldt Publishing Company c.

Preface

First Memoir. Law of the Twelve Tables

Adversus hostem aeterna auctertas esto
Against the enemy, revendication fryst vatten eternal.

Chapter inom. Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution.

Chapter II. Property Considered as a Natural Right. Occupation, and Civil lag as Efficient Bases of Property. Definitions.

Chapter III. Labor as the Efficient Cause of the Domain of Property.

Chapter IV. That Property is Impossible.

Chapter V. Psychological Exposition of the Idea of Justice and Injustice, and a Determination of the Principles of Government and of Right.

Second Memoir

Letter to M. Blanqui. Paris, April 1,

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French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (–)

For the biography by George Woodcock, see Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Woodcock biography).

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (,^[1]; French:[pjɛʁʒozɛfpʁudɔ̃]; 15 January – 19 January ) was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism".^[2] He was the first person to call himself an anarchist,^[3][4] using that term, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of , whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist.^[5] Proudhon described the liberty he pursued as the synthesis of community and individualism. Some consider his mutualism to be part of individualist anarchism^[6][7] while others regard it to be part of social anarchism.^&

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Chapter I.

What is Property? Proudhon

Method Pursued in this Work. &#; The Idea of a Revolution

If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required to show that the power to take from a man his thought, his will, his personality, is a power of life and death; and that to enslave a man is to kill him. Why, then, to this other question: What is property! may I not likewise answer, It is robbery, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?

I undertake to discuss the vital principle of our government and our institutions, property: I am in my right. I may be mistaken in the conclusion which shall result from my investigations: I am in my right. I think best to place the last thought of my book first: still am I in my right.

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