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Qu'est-ce que la propriété?: Book Guide, Author and Facts

Qu'est-ce que la propriété? by P.-J. Proudhon: plot, author, genre and where to read, in one evergreen guide.

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“Property is robbery!” This slogan coined by the French political philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is one of his answers to the titular question of his 1840 treatise, What Is Property? A fervent attack against the established order of capitalism and private property, the publication of What Is Property? almost immediately led to Proudhon’s official prosecution and the revocation of Proudhon’s scholarship by the Academy of Besançon. (Proudhon, an autodidact of humble origins who began his working life as a printer, relied on the scholarship for financial support.) Proudhon evaded the worst of the consequences thanks to the intervention of the economist Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, to whom the second memoir contained in the book is addressed.

In this treatise, Proudhon contrasts the legitimate right

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  • Title: Qu'est-ce que la propriété?
  • Author: P.-J. Proudhon
  • First published: 1840
  • Genre: economics, property, propriété
  • OpenLibrary ID: OL960281W

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