What Pierre-Joseph Proudhon thinks about politics
French socialist and anarchist thinker (1809 to 1865); author of What Is Property?
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4 dated positions, c. 1840, in their own words. Our reading of what Pierre-Joseph Proudhon has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIf you wish to enjoy political equality, abolish property; otherwise, why do you complain?
↗What is Property? (1840; Benjamin Tucker translation)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book
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Their wordsCommunism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak.
↗What is Property? (1840; Benjamin Tucker translation)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book
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Their wordsCommunism is essentially opposed to the free exercise of our faculties, to our noblest desires, to our deepest feelings.
↗What is Property? (1840; Benjamin Tucker translation)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book
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Our readingOne can be a firm friend of order and still be an anarchist in the full sense of the term
Their wordsAlthough a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist.
↗What is Property? (1840; Benjamin Tucker translation)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book