Proudhon’s essay “What is Government? What is God?” appeared first in the Voix du Peuple, November 5, 1849, then as the preface to The Confessions of a Revolutionary, as well as in the Melanges volumes of the Lacroix collected works. It was the occasion for one of the more important responses by Pierre Leroux—a response which seems to have influenced William Batchelder Greene.
[Here’s the first section of Proudhon’s The Theory of Property, in rough English translation.] THEORY OF PROPERTY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION § I. — The various meanings of the word property. In 1840, I promised to […]
DÉMONSTRATION DU SOCIALISME, THÉORIQUE ET PRATIQUE OU RÉVOLUTION PAR LE CRÉDIT Pour servir d’instruction aux souscripteurs et actionnaires de la Banque du Peuple, Par P.-J. PROUDHON, représentant de la Seine. I Je forme une entreprise […]
[Preface, by Darimon] QU’EST-CE QUE LA PROPRIÉTÉ? 25 avril 1848. Le 25 février, les ouvriers sont allés à l’Hôtel-de-Ville, et ils ont dit à M. de Lamartine : Que devons-nous crier? Criez : Vive la […]
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“Who knows if we could not discover then that all these governmental formulas, for which the Peoples and citizens have slit each others’ throats for sixty centuries, are only a phantasmagoria of our mind, that the first duty of a free reason is to return to the museums and libraries?”
Authority is indeed an illusion. It’s simply amazing how people project the state as the institution which grants them their freedom, but it’s not surprising when you understand how people have been conditioned to believe so, and how the most arrogant view the state as an extension of themselves.
I think I will share this with a friend from college (who is also a philosophy major) since she is interested in anarchism.