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  Pierre Joseph Proudhon - LoveToKnow 1911
Proudhon's aim, therefore, was to realize a science of society resting on principles of justice, liberty and equality thus understood; "a science absolute, rigorous, based on the nature of man and of his faculties, 1 The droit d'aubaine was abolished in 1790, revived by Napoleon, and ended in 1819.
Proudhon's theory of property as the right of aubaine is substantially the same as the theory of capital held by Marx and most of the later socialists.
Proudhon's famous paradox, "La propriete, c'est le vol," is merely a trenchant expression of this general principle.
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 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon / Biography (Introduction to "What is Property?")
She it was especially that Proudhon resembled: she and his grandfather Tournési, the soldier peasant of whom his mother told him, and whose courageous deeds he has described in his work on "Justice." Proudhon, who always felt a great veneration for his mother Catharine, gave her name to the elder of his daughters.
Proudhon had endeavored, in his first memoir, to demonstrate that the pursuit of equality of conditions is the true principle of right and of government.
Proudhon lodged an appeal; he wrote a memoir which the law of 1819, in the absence of which he would have been liable to a new prosecution, gave him the power to publish previous to the hearing.
www.cooperativeindividualism.org /proudhon_property_00.html   (5976 words)

  
 Proudhon's Libertarian Thought and the Anarchist Movement by L. Gambone
Since Proudhon's conception of anarchism was the original, and the others were derived from it, if the later varieties differed significantly from the original, perhaps there was a necessity to question whether these differences were of a positive or "progressive" nature.
Proudhon was a revolutionary, but his revolution did not mean violent upheaval or civil war, but rather the transformation of society.
While Proudhonism was the dominant form of French working class radicalism in the decade prior to the Paris Commune, the failure of the Commune weakened faith in Proudhonist gradualism and peaceful change.
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He who has only the benefit of a field is assuredly not the proprietor of it; still less he who, as Proudhon would have it, must give up so much of this benefit as is not required for his wants; but he is the proprietor of the share that is left him.
Proudhon might spare his prolix pathos if he said: "There are some things that belong only to a few, and to which we others will from now on lay claim or - siege.
In this too Proudhon is like the Christians, that he ascribes to God that which he denies to men.
www.againstpolitics.com /market_anarchism/stirner_on_proudhon.html   (756 words)

  
 On Proudhon | libcom.org
the contradiction that Proudhon is criticising society, on the one hand, from the standpoint and with the eyes of a French small-holding peasant (later petit bourgeois) and, on the other, that he measures it with the standards he inherited from the socialists.
My refutation shows in particular that Proudhon's view of exchange-value, the basis of the whole theory, remains confused, incorrect and superficial, and that he even mistakes the utopian interpretation of Ricardo's theory of value for the basis of a new science.
Proudhon's discovery of "crédit gratuit"' and the "people's bank" (banque du peuple), based upon it, were his last economic "deeds".
libcom.org /library/on-proudhon-iwma   (2224 words)

  
 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Anarchopedia
Proudhon believed that collective ownership was undesirable and that social revolution could be achieved in a peaceful manner.
Proudhon was born at born in Besançon, his father being a brewers cooper.
Proudhon was surprised by the revolt in Paris in February 1848.
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 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the son of a brewer, was born in Besancon, France, in 1809.
Proudhon was opposed to Marx's authoritarianism and his main influence was on the libertarian socialist movement.
Proudhon's views were to have a profound effect on several writers in Russia including Alexander Herzen, Peter Lavrov, Peter Kropotkin and Leo Tolstoy.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSproudhon.htm   (408 words)

  
 Proudhon, Pierre Joseph - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
After the Revolution of 1848, he was elected a member of the constituent assembly; at that time he tried unsuccessfully to establish a national bank for reorganization of credit in the interest of the workers.
As a replacement for the existing social and political order, Proudhon developed a theory of "mutualism," by which small, loosely federated groups would bargain with each other over economic and political matters within the framework of a consensus on fundamental principles.
Proudhon left a great mass of literature, which influenced the French syndicalist movement.
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 Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809-1865)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Proudhon had never advocated such workshops, accurately perceiving them as essentially charity institutions which did not directly attack the problems of the economic system, but he opposed their elimination unless some economic assurances could be given to the workers who relied on them for subsistence.
Proudhon and the mountain could put aside their differences long enough to vote together on November 4 against the new constitution (though for different reasons), but by the end of the month they were again at each others throats.
Proudhon's attacks became more aggressive in January 1849, and the government responded by getting the assembly to lift Proudhon's immunity from prosecution and, in March 1849, had Proudhon sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3000F.
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 Ward's Proudhon Biography
Proudhon is a rarity among anarchist philosophers in that he was of quite humble peasant origins.
By mid-century, Proudhon was the leading left intellectual in France or for that matter, all of Europe, far surpassing Marx's notoriety or Bakunin's.
Of these, Proudhon had the profoundest effect upon the workers' movement in the 19th century and his ideas influenced some of the most notable later anarchists, including both Tolstoy and Bakunin, both of whom knew Proudhon personally.
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 Pierre Joseph Proudhon: Agrarian Jurisprudence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Proudhon called himself "a man of paradoxes."[23] He delighted in countering the status quo with a bold and unrestrained denial of it, or by setting in opposition to the present system an equally indefensible (but perhaps popular) alternative.
Proudhon accepts as authoritative those aspects of Biblical Law that are virtually universally rejected as "culturally determined," i.e., "relevant to more 'primitive cultures,' but inapplicable to more 'modern cultures,' such as our own."[29] We must agree with Proudhon, however, and assert that Scripture is culturally determinative, and not culturally determined.
Proudhon was an eloquent defender of a strong, agricultural "work ethic." "Proudhon's detestation of the Church came from his conviction that the Christians blasphemed life — by what he regarded as their.
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 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
To his own question, "What is property?", Proudhon answered famously, "Property is theft!".
Proudhon called for a complete reorganization of modern society that abolished most of its trappings - including money and the state itself.
Léon Walras (1860) also had a go at a critique of Proudhon.
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 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [] in BrE, [] in French) (January 15, 1809 – January 19, 1865) was a French anarchist of the 19th century.
Proudhon also claimed that "Property is impossible." Although he was against capitalism, he rejected communism and believed that individual possession — which he distinguished from private Property — was necessary both for liberty and for an efficient economy.
In his libertarian socialism, Proudhon was followed by Mikhail Bakunin, in contrast to the authoritarian socialism that followed from Marx.
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In this book, Proudhon stated that the real laws of society have nothing to do with authority, but stem instead from the nature of society itself.
Proudhon was born in 1809, originally a peasant, the son of a brewer.
Proudhon and the Mutualists, along with British tradeunionists and socialists, formed the First International Workingmen's Association.
www.spunk.org /library/intro/sp000282.txt   (1416 words)

  
 Glossary of People: Pr
Proudhon was the first person to call himself an “anarchist,” the word previously only having been used as a term of abuse, during the French Revolution.
Proudhon had never advocated such workshops, perceiving them as essentially charity institutions which did not threaten the economic system, but he opposed their elimination unless some economic assurances could be given to the workers who relied on them for subsistence.
Proudhon and the Montagne could put aside their differences long enough to vote together on November 4 against the new constitution (though for different reasons), but by the end of the month they were again at each others throats.
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 What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Proudhon, who had been asked to preside at the banquet, refused, and proposed in his stead, first, Ledru-Rollin, and then, in view of the reluctance of the organizers of the banquet, the illustrious president of the party of the Mountain, Lamennais.
Proudhon made a very sharp attack on the candidacy of Louis Bonaparte in a pamphlet which is regarded as one of his literary chefs-d'oeuvre: the "Pamphlet on the Presidency." An opponent of this institution, against which he had voted in the Constituent Assembly, he at first decided to take no part in the campaign.
On the first of June, the author appealed to the Senate in a second "Petition," which was deposited with the first in the office of the Secretary of the Assembly, the guardian and guarantee, according to the constitution of 1852, of the principles of '89.
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 sandiego.indymedia.org | PROUDHON CENTURY XXI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For Proudhon the root of Justice is not exterior to the individual.
He is partner of the Societé Proudhon of Paris and author of unknown workmanship on the thought philosophical politician and of Proudhon.
The beginning of the systematic study of Proudhon and its complex, encyclopedic and multifaceted workmanship, was given in the final tip of the degree in Philosophy, in 1984.
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 TAKIS FOTOPOULOS - Beyond Marx and Proudhon
The fact however that Proudhon does not rule out the market system leads him to a celebration of competition, unlike Marx and most socialists and anarchists who had a clear idea of the negative significance of competition, both within the framework of a market economy and that of an alternative society.
It is not accidental that for Marxists, as well as for many libertarians including Proudhon, democracy, even if it is meant as direct democracy, is considered as a kind of ‘rule’ which presupposes a division between state and society.
For Proudhon, democracy, as well as monarchy, communism and anarchy ‘are all unable to realise their ideals on their own, and thus they are reduced to complementing each other by means of mutual borrowings’.
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 Pierre Joseph Proudhon Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The political philosopher and journalist Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1864) was the greatest of the French anarchists.
Pierre Joseph Proudhon was born of a poor family in Besançon.
During the Revolution of 1848, Proudhon accepted the editorship of the daily Le Représentant du Peuple, which became one of the most popular and controversial newspapers among workers in Paris because it criticized all parties, including the new republican government.
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 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Proudhon was born in Besançon, his father being a brewers cooper.
Proudhon died on January 19, 1865, and he is buried in Paris, at the cemetery of Montparnasse (2nd division, near the Lenoir alley, in the tomb of the Proudhon family).
Proudhon is the first known theorist to refer to himself as an "anarchist." He defined anarchy as "the absence of a master, of a sovereign" in What is Property and urged a "Society without Authority" in The General idea of the Revolution.
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 Rhetorical Device | Proudhon’s Position   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Proudhon’s Position is an observation by Jack Rusher, published here October 12, 2006.
Pierre Proudhon is largely remembered for the phrase “property is theft,” which — given that he also said “property is freedom,” and “property is impossible” — both over-simplifies and somewhat misrepresents his position.
Proudhon met Karl Marx in Paris while Marx was exiled there.
jack.rusher.com   (319 words)

  
 pierre joseph proudhon - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Proudhon, in short, is agreeing with Gauchet...let economist and philosopher Joseph Schumpeter put a similar thought...
PROUDHON, PIERRE JOSEPH pyer zhozef proodhoN, 1809...Ritter, The Political Thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1969); C. Hall, The Sociology of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1971); R. Hoffman, Revolutionary...
Pierre Joseph Proudhon, although he did not adopt the principle of common...however, the Communist party in the USSR adopted, under Joseph Stalin, the theory of "socialism in one country...
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 Pierre-Joseph PROUDHON page, from the Anarchist Encyclopedia: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners; Labor, Radical, Poets, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Pierre-Joseph PROUDHON page, from the Anarchist Encyclopedia: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners; Labor, Radical, Poets, Anarchists, Anti-Authoritarians...
French anarchist philosoper, a printer by trade, a profession which gave birth to many anarchists, but Proudhon was the first to call himself an anarchist.
Proudhon had the profoundest effect upon the workers' movement in the 19th century & his ideas influenced some of the most notable later anarchists, including Leo Tolstoy & Michael Bakunin
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 Gimon Inventory
The pamphlets and newspapers contained in these two volumes represent a key period in the career of the French socialist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865).
They correspond to the years 1847-1850, during which Proudhon repeatedly intervened in national politics, both by gaining election to the Constituent Assembly of early June 1848 and by launching a series of newspapers: the Représentant du Peuple, the Peuple, the Voix du Peuple, and the Peuple de 1850.
The two volumes contain complete runs of all four of these newspapers, along with various pamphlets and articles related to Proudhon’s political projects.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/frnit/proudhon.html   (715 words)

  
 Proudhon And Anarchism: Proudhon's Libertarian Thought and the Anarchist Movement :: AK Press
Proudhon And Anarchism: Proudhon's Libertarian Thought and the Anarchist Movement :: AK Press
Proudhon And Anarchism: Proudhon's Libertarian Thought and the Anarchist Movement
A new interpretation of Proudhon's anarchist philosophy and its relation to the anarchist movement as it developed in the 19th century.
www.akpress.org /1996/items/proudhonandanarchism   (154 words)

  
 Proudhon's Lair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
At that time my friends had false impressions about who Proudhon was, and what his thoughts were, so did I. Yet, somehow they associated my certain temperaments with anarchist (actually anarchic) traits, such as having radical and wild ideas, being lazy, disorganized, irresponsible and unpredictable, and finally being a little bit sharp.
So did they start to call me Proudhon.
A short list of projects is as follows.
www.iproudhon.org   (528 words)

  
 Books by P.-J Proudhon, compare prices
Proudhon : Sa Correspondance Et Ses Correspondants Actes Du Colloque De La Societe P.-J. Proudhon, Paris, 6 Novembre 1993
by P.-J Proudhon, Pierre Ansart, Societe P.-J Proudhon
by Karl Marx, P.-J Proudhon, Tohoku Daigaku, Kikuji Tanaka
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