Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French political theorist who declared 'property is theft' in What Is Property? and became the first person to call himself an anarchist. His mutualism proposed a society of small producers exchanging goods without profit. He influenced syndicalism, anarchism, and the socialist movement.
Works
- What Is Property?Anarchist political economy arguing property is theft and examining contradiction
- System of Economic ContradictionsPolitical economy analyzing contradictions, value, and capitalist system crisis
- General Idea of the RevolutionAnarchist vision of decentralized revolution through federal cooperation
- The Philosophy of MiseryCritique of Hegelian philosophy and response to Marx's dialectical method
- On the Political Capacity of the Working ClassesPolitical analysis of working-class capacity for self-governance and autonomy
- The System of Economic ContradictionsDuplicate of system of economic contradictions on capitalist system conflicts
- The General Idea of the RevolutionDuplicate of general idea of revolution on decentralized revolutionary transformation
- Du Principe fédératifFrench political philosophy on federalism as principle of social organization