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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He was the first person to call himself an anarchist, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he re…
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culture · French philosopher and anarchist (1809–1865) · economist · sociologist · politician · journalist · philosopher · writer · printer · political economist · revolutionary · anarchist · also Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, P.-J. Proudhon, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Purūdon, Pʻu-lu-tung, Pʹer Zhozef Prudon
Born 15 January 1809 · Died 19 January 1865 · Q5749
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2026· 6 entries
“Sorel, whose ideas were most fully developed in his Reflections on Violence, had no direct connection with the syndicalist movement, and he was repudiated.”
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“you desire neither Catholicism nor monarchy nor nobility, but you must have a God, a religion, a dictatorship, a censorship, a hierarchy, distinctions, and ranks. For my part, I deny your God, your authority, your sovereignty, your judicial State, and all your representative mystifications.”
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“s The Philosophy of Poverty. In their letters, Proudhon expressed disagreement with Marx”
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“[t]here will no longer be nationality, no longer fatherland, in the political sense of the words: they will mean only places of birth. Man, of whatever race or colour he may be, is an inhabitant of the universe; citizenship is everywhere an acquired right.”
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“property is the only power that can act as a counterweight to the State”
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2021· 1 entry
The anarchist and Proudhon scholar Iain McKay published a detailed critique of Schapiro's claims
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2014· 2 entries
Libcom: Toast to the revolution - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Libcom: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: a biography - George Woodcock
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1925· 1 entry
Georges Valois founded the Faisceau, the first fascist league, which took its name from Benito Mussolini's fasci
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1873· 1 entry
While being the leader of the Federal Democratic Republican Party
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1865· 5 entries
Died 1865-01-19.
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“Czy własność jest sprawiedliwa? nie! (…) Własność jest największą siłą rewolucyjną jaka istnieje i jaka pozwala przeciwstawić się władzy…”
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“I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.”
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“All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.”
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“Być rządzonym to być obserwowanym, nadzorowanym, szpiegowanym, kierowanym, nastawianym, podporządkowanym ustawom, indoktrynowanym, zmuszanym do wysłuchiwania kazań, kontrolowanym, szacowanym, ocenianym, cenzurowanym, poddawanym rozkazom ludzi, którzy nie mają ani prawa, ani wiedzy, ani cnót obywatelskich.”
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1863· 2 entries
Proudhon wrote: "All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation
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“All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization”
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1849· 3 entries
Proudhon declared in Confessions of a Revolutionary that "[w]hoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy"
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“[w]hoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy”
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“Solution of the Social Problem”
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1848· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of parliament for the Seine (1848–1849).
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1847· 2 entries
Considered publishing an article against the Jewish race, which he said he 'hated'
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Left this job and finally settled in Paris, where he was now becoming celebrated as a leader of innovation
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1846· 1 entry
Published the Système des contradictions économiques ou Philosophie de la misère (The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty) which prompted a book-length critique from Karl Marx entitled The
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1845· 1 entry
Which was inspired by Proudhon's ideas
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1841· 3 entries
“land is indispensable to our existence, consequently a common thing, consequently insusceptible of appropriation”
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Proudhon wrote that "all capital, whether material or mental, being the result of collective labour, is, in consequence, collective property"
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“all capital, whether material or mental, being the result of collective labour, is, in consequence, collective property”
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1840· 3 entries
I categorically rejected the notion of property for both the group and the individual", but then he also states his new theory of property that "property is the greatest revolutionary force which exists, with an unequale
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Proudhon published his first work Qu'est-ce que la propriété
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Proudhon defined anarchy as "the absence of a master, of a sovereign" and wrote that "[a]s man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy"
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1839· 1 entry
The Academy of Besançon held an essay competition on the subject of the utility of the celebration of Sunday regarding hygiene, morality and the relationship of the family and the city
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1838· 1 entry
Proudhon decided to dedicate himself fully to scholarly pursuits
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1829· 1 entry
Came to Gauthier as a customer seeking to publish his work Le Nouveau Monde Industriel et Sociétaire
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1827· 1 entry
Proudhon began an apprenticeship at a printing press in the house of Bellevaux in Battant
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1820· 1 entry
Proudhon's mother began trying to get him admitted into the city college in Besançon
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1811· 1 entry
And 1816 respectively, and both maintained a very close relationship with him
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1809· 1 entry
Born 1809-01-15.
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