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Every worker is in lasting debt to society, and the proprietor betrays a trust
Drawn from what Pierre-Joseph Proudhon said
What Pierre-Joseph Proudhon actually said
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon French socialist and anarchist thinker (1809 to 1865)
The laborer, in his relation to society, is a debtor who of necessity dies insolvent. The proprietor is an unfaithful guardian who denies the receipt of the deposit committed to his care, and wishes to be paid for his guardianship down to the last day.
Where this was said
↗What is Property? (1840; Benjamin Tucker translation)gutenberg.org
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