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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“The current unintelligent tampering…with the moral order of business”
In 1873, William Batchelder Greene was asked by Ezra Heywood to explain Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s ideas on property. Greene sent along translations of the first three, and last three pages of What is Property? and a […]
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What could justify property?
[Commentary coming soon.] The shift in Proudhon’s work, from critique of property to arguments in favor of it (despite and based on the critiques), is hard to work through, perhaps because Proudhon was himself a […]
Proudhon Library
Ms. 2846 — Theory of Property
[This page is a work-in-progress.] [1] Dedication. Persons, Property. We work to avoid the economic question. It is from this point of view that I judge contemporary politics. We imagine meeting the needs of the […]