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Proudhon: What is Property? Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Proudhon: What is Property? By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Proudhon: What is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon


Summary

This is a 1994 translation of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What is Property? (1840), one of the classics of political thought and a notorious and influential critique of the central institution of modern Western society, the private ownership of property.

Proudhon: What is Property? Summary

Proudhon: What is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

This is a 1994 translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential and subversive critics of modern French and European society. His What is Property? (1840) produced the answer 'Property is theft'; the book itself has become a classic of political thought through its wide-ranging and deep-reaching critique of private property as at once the essential institution of Western culture and the root cause of greed, corruption, political tyranny, social division and violation of natural law. A critical and historical introduction situates Proudhon's 'diabolical work' (as he called it) in the context of nineteenth-century social and legal controversy and of the history of political thought in general.

Table of Contents

1. Method followed in this work; 2. Property considered as a natural right; 3. Labor as the efficient cause of the domain of property; 4. That property is impossible: demonstration; 5. Psychological exposition of the idea of the just and the unjust and the determination of the principle of government and right.

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NLS9780521405560
9780521405560
0521405564
Proudhon: What is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1994-02-25
270
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