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On the Political Capacity of the Working Classes

by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Political analysis of working-class capacity for self-governance and autonomy

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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.

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