Title:
Property is theft! : a Pierre-Joseph Proudhon anthology / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ; edited by Iain McKay.
Author:
Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph), 1809-1865, author.
McKay, Iain, editor.
Publication Information:
Edinburgh ; Oakland ; Baltimore : AK Press, 2011.
AK Press Publishing and Distribution
Call Number:
HX893.7.P78 P7613 2011
Abstract:
A largely self-educated worker whose incendiary ideas were more influential than those of Karl Marx during his lifetime, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's social and economic ideas have been a source of inspiration and debate since 1840. Mikhail Bakunin proclaimed "Proudhon is the master of us all," while for Peter Kropotkin he laid "the foundations of anarchism." Property Is Theft! collects his most important works in one volume, making many available in English for the first time. Extensively annotated and introduced by editor Iain McKay, Property Is Theft! is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history and development of anarchist principles and practice.
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Electronic Access:
The Charles H. Maxson Fund Home Page http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366250
ISBN:
9781849350242
Physical Description:
823 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
In 1840, Proudhon issued Que'est-ce que la propriete?, affirming the bold paradox, property is theft, as appropriating the labor of others in the form of rent. Chapters from this work and other selected texts, including relevant correspondence and essays, are translated from the French (major works transcribed in contents-note below) and compiled in this volume.
Contents:
Proudhon: a biographical sketch -- What is property?: or an inquiry into the principle of right and of government -- Letter to M. Blanqui on property: what is property?; second memoir -- Letter to Antoine Gauthier -- Letter to Karl Marx -- System of economic contradictions, or, the philosophy of misery: volume 1 -- System of economic contradictions, or, the philosophy of misery: volume 2 -- Solution of the social problem -- Organisation of credit and circulation: and the solution of the social problem -- Letter to Louis Blanc -- Letter to Professor Chevalier -- The situation -- The reaction -- The mystification of universal suffrage -- To patriots -- Opening session of the National Assembly -- Outline of the social question: method of solution -- equivalence of the political question and the social question -- Foreign affairs.
To the editor-in-chief of Le Représentant du Peuple -- July fifteenth -- Address to the Constituent National Assembly -- The Malthusians -- Toast to the revolution -- The constitution and the presidency -- Election Manifesto of Le Peuple -- Bank of the people -- Confessions of a revolutionary: to serve as a history of the February Revolution -- Resistance to the revolution: Louis Blanc and Pierre Leroux -- Letter to Pierre Leroux -- In connection with Louis Blanc: the present use and future possibility of the state -- Interest and principal: discussion between M. Proudhon and M. Bastiat on interest on capital -- General idea of the revolution in the nineteenth century -- Letter to Villiaumé -- Stock exchange speculator's manual: 4th ed. -- Justice in the revolution and the church -- Letter to Milliet -- The federative principle: and the necessity of reconstituting the party of the revolution -- The political capacity of the working classes.
Appendices. The theory of property -- The Paris Commune.
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Uniform Title:
Works. Selections. English
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