What Pierre-Joseph Proudhon thinks about innovation

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French socialist and anarchist thinker (1809 to 1865); author of What Is Property?

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1. c. 1840

   Our readingA person's talent is the product of society's accumulated knowledge

   Their wordsJust as the creation of every instrument of production is the result of collective force, so also are a man's talent and knowledge the product of universal intelligence and of general knowledge slowly accumulated by a number of masters, and through the aid of many inferior industries.

   ↗What is Property? (1840; Benjamin Tucker translation)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book