Proudhon

What is Property?

By: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Donald R. Kelley (Editor), Bonnie G. Smith (Editor)

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Paperback | 9 May 1994

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This is a new translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential, and subversive critics of modern French and European society. What is Property? (1840) has become a classic of political thought through its wide-ranging and deep-reaching critique of private property as at once the essential institution of Western culture and the root cause of greed, corruption, political tyranny, social division, and violation of natural law.

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Introduction	p. xi
Bibliographical note	p. xxxiv
Chronology	p. xxxvi
What is Property?	p. 1
Preface	p. 3
Method followed in this work. Idea of a revolution	p. 13
Property considered as a natural right. Occupation and civil law as efficient causes of property	p. 35
Property as a natural right	p. 37
Occupation as the basis of property	p. 43
Civil law as the foundation and sanction of property	p. 56
Labour as the efficient cause of the domain of property	p. 67
Land cannot be appropriated	p. 70
Universal consent does not justify property	p. 74
Prescription never gives title to property	p. 75
Labour. That labour by itself has no power to appropriate the things of nature	p. 81
That labour leads to equality of property	p. 36
That in society all wages are equal	p. 94
That the inequality of faculties is the necessary condition of equality of fortunes	p. 100
That, in terms of justice, labour destroys property	p. 114
That property is impossible	p. 117
Property is physically and mathematically impossible	p. 118
Property is impossible because it demands something from nothing	p. 122
Property is impossible because wherever it exists, production costs more than it is worth	p. 129
Property is impossible because with a given capital production is proportional to labour, not to property	p. 133
Property is impossible because it is homicide	p. 136
Property is impossible because with it society devours itself	p. 140
Appendix to the fifth proposition	p. 148
Property is impossible because it is the mother of tyranny	p. 157
Property is impossible because in consuming what it receives it loses it, because in saving it nullifies it, and because in using it as capital it turns it against production	p. 159
Property is impossible because its power of accumulation is infinite, while it is exercised only over finite quantities	p. 163
Property is impossible because it is powerless against property	p. 165
Property is impossible because it is the negative of equality	p. 168
Psychological exposition of the idea of the just and the unjust and determination of the principle of government and right 170
First part
Of the moral sense in man and in animals	p. 170
Of the first and second degrees of sociability	p. 174
Of the third degree of sociability	p. 180
Second part
Of the causes of errors. The origin of property	p. 189
Characteristics of communism and of property	p. 195
Determination of the third social form. Conclusions	p. 211
Notes	p. 218
Index	p. 221
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