Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865.
French socialist-anarchist.
To his own question, "What is property?", Proudhon answered famously, "Property is theft!". Proudhon called for a complete reorganization
of modern society that abolished most of its trappings - including money and the state
itself. He advocated communitarianism as the form of reorganization of society.
He argued that "goodwill" would emerge naturally once these "social constructs" were gone.
Karl Marx directed his Poverty of Philosophy (1847) directly against
Proudhon. Léon Walras (1860) also had a go at a
critique of Proudhon.
Major Works of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- What is Property?, 1840 - Copy
(1), Extracts (1), Extracts (2)
- "De la concurrence entre les chemins de fer et les voies navigables",
1845, Journal des economistes
- De la célébration du dimanche,
1845
- System
of Economical Contradictions or The Philosophy of Misery, 1846. - Copy
(2), French
version
- Letters to Bastiat on Principal and
Interest, 1849 - Letter
1, Letter
2, Letter
3, Letter
4
- General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, 1851 - Extracts on Etre
Gouvernée.
- Du principe fédératif, 1863.
- De la capacité politique des classes ouvrières,
1865
- Les
Évangiles, 1866
- Jésus et les origines du christianisme,
1896
- La royauté du peuple souverain,
1912
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