What is property?
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What is property?
（Cambridge texts in the history of political thought）
Cambridge University Press, 1994
- : hard
- : pbk
- Other Title
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Qu'est-ce que la propriété?
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Translation of: Qu'est-ce que la propriété?
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a 1994 translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential and subversive critics of modern French and European society. His What is Property? (1840) produced the answer 'Property is theft'; the book itself has become a classic of political thought through its wide-ranging and deep-reaching critique of private property as at once the essential institution of Western culture and the root cause of greed, corruption, political tyranny, social division and violation of natural law. A critical and historical introduction situates Proudhon's 'diabolical work' (as he called it) in the context of nineteenth-century social and legal controversy and of the history of political thought in general.
Table of Contents
- 1. Method followed in this work
- 2. Property considered as a natural right
- 3. Labor as the efficient cause of the domain of property
- 4. That property is impossible: demonstration
- 5. Psychological exposition of the idea of the just and the unjust and the determination of the principle of government and right.
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