Apparently I missed a post on the C4SIF site last March, claiming that Proudhon was an advocate of intellectual property. Now, as I am a notorious softy on that question (or self-serving reactionary, depending on who you ask), I’m less inclined to “pistols at dawn” than some might be, but it doesn’t sound much like the Proudhon I know. You can check the comments for some discussion with Stephan Kinsella about the question, which is rendered more difficult because the text at issue is from the half-translated and notoriously difficult System of Economic Contradictions.
French texts
Neuvième étude — Progrès et décadence — français parallèle
NEUVIÈME ÉTUDE PROGRÈS ET DÉCADENCE À Son Éminence Mgr Matthieu, Cardinal-Archevêque de Besançon. I ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — N° 9. DE LA JUSTICE DANS LA RÉVOLUTION ET DANS L’ÉGLISE. NEUVIÈME ÉTUDE. PROGRÈS ET DÉCADENCE. […]
Proudhon Library
P.-J. Proudhon, “Le droit au travail et le droit de propriété” (1848)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] LE DROIT AU TRAVAIL ET LE DR0IT DE PROPRIÉTÉ PAR P. J. PROUDHON REPRÉSENTANT DU PEUPLE PARIS 1848 —- PROLOGUE Il est deux points sur lesquels […]
Contr'un
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Self-Government and the Citizen-State
I’ve spent much of the last six months on a journey down the rabbit hole in search of Proudhon’s theory of the State, and as I suspect my notes on the study have made clear, […]