The previous post, “What is certain is that property is to be regenerated among us,” has spurred some further research on the relation of The Theory of Property to Proudhon’s works of the early 1860s. Check the comment thread for a number of of interesting items from Proudhon’s correspondence, and the Libertarian Library blog for the “Notice to the Reader” from The Principle of Art, the first of the Posthumous Works.
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Proudhon’s “New Theory” (1 of 3)
[Note: For some general thoughts on The Theory of Property, see “property must justify itself or disappear”] Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, The Theory of Property, Chapter VI: “The New Theory” (1865) New theory: that the motives, and […]
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Property? It’s just a phase… (Proudhon to the Academy of Besançon, 1840)
This response by Proudhon to the Academy of Besançon fills in a bit of the story told in the introduction to What is Property? I’ve been tracking down some of these bits and pieces in […]
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Pierre Leroux on Joseph Déjacque
“… one day Déjacque harangued the crowd in the Faubourg Saint-Honore, where he lived, claiming to be a new reincarnation of Christ…” — from an account of Déjacque last days, before he died “mad from […]