Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Property Is Theft!

A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader
Herausgeber: McKay, Iain

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Produktbeschreibung

The definitive English-language collection by the first man to call himself an anarchist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 670
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1101g
• ISBN-13: 9781849350242
• ISBN-10: 1849350248
• Artikelnr.: 29953714

Autorenporträt

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1869) was one of the most important and influential political theorists of the 19th century. The first person to call himself an anarchist, he is the author of What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government; The System of Economical Contradictions (or, the Philosophy of Misery); and The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, by Iain McKay What is Property? Chapter I. Method Pursued In
This Work, The Idea of a Revolution Chapter II. Property Considered as a
Natural Right §1 Property as a Natural Right §2 Occupation, as the Title to
Property §3 Civil Law as the Foundation and Sanction of Property Chapter
III. Labour As The Efficient Cause Of The Domain Of Property. §1 The Land
cannot be Appropriated §2 Universal Consent no Justification of Property §3
Prescription Gives No Title to Property §4 Labour: That Labour Has No
Inherent Power to Appropriate Natural Wealth §5 That Labour leads to
Equality of Property §6 That in Society all Wages are Equal Chapter IV.
That property is impossible. Chapter V. Psychological Exposition of the
Idea of Justice Letter to M.Blanqui on Property Letter to Antoine Gauthier
Letter to Karl Marx System of Economic Contradictions: Volume I Chapter I:
Of the Economic Science Chapter II: Of Value Chapter III: Economic
Evolutions-First Period-The Division of Labour Chapter IV: Second
Period-Machinery §1. Of the function of machinery in its relations to
liberty §2. Machinery's contradiction-Origin of capital and wage-labour §3.
Of preservatives against the disastrous influence of machinery Chapter V:
Third Period-Competition §1. Necessity of competition. §2. Subversive
effects of competition, and the destruction of liberty thereby. §3.
Remedies against competition. Chapter VI: Fourth Period-Monopoly §1.
Necessity of monopoly §2. The disasters in labour and the perversion of
ideas caused by monopoly. Chapter VII: Fifth Period-Police, Or Taxation
System of Economic Contradictions: Volume II Chapter X: Seventh Period:
Credit §1. Origin and Development of the Idea of Credit Chapter XI: Eighth
Epoch-Property Chapter XIV: Summary and Conclusion Solution of the Social
Problem First Chapter: The Revolution in 1848 Chapter II: Democracy
Organisation of Credit and Circulation Programme The Bank of Exchange
Letter to Louis Blanc Letter to Professor Chevalier The Situation The
Reaction The Mystification of Universal Suffrage To Patriots Opening
Session of the National Assembly Outline of the Social Question Foreign
Affairs To the Editor-in-Chief of Le Representant du Peuple The 15th July
Address to the Constituent National Assembly The Malthusians Toast to the
Revolution The Constitution and the Presidency Election Manifesto of Le
Peuple Bank of the People Declaration Formation of the Company Report of
the Luxembourg Delegate and Workers' Corporation Commission Chapter I: The
People's Bank Chapter II: Overview of contemplated production or
consumption unions Chapter III: General Consumers' Union and its
Responsibilities Confessions of a Revolutionary Chapter III: Nature and
Destination of Government Chapter VI: 24th February: Provisional Government
Chapter X: June 23-26: The Cavaignac Reaction Chapter XIV: 4th November:
The Constitution Chapter XVII: 1849, 29 January: Barrot-Falloux Reaction.
Destruction of the Government Chapter XVIII: 21st March: The Law On The
Clubs; Legal Resistance Chapter XXI: 8th July 1849: Conclusion Resistance
to the Revolution I. Of the nature of the State II. Of the end or object of
the State III. Of an ulterior destiny of the State Letter to Pierre Leroux
In Connection with Louis Blanc Interest and Principal First Letter: 19th
November 1849 Second Letter: 3rd December 1849 Third Letter: 17th December
1849 Fourth Letter: 31st December 1849 Fifth Letter: 21st January 1850
Sixth Letter: 11th February 1850 General Idea of the Revolution in the
Nineteenth Century First Study: Reaction Causes Revolution Second Study: Is
there Sufficient Reason for Revolution in the Nineteenth Century? 1. Law of
Tendency in Society âEUR" The Revolution of 1789 has done only half its
work 2. Chaos of economic forces.Tendency of society toward poverty 3.
Anomaly of Government. Tendency toward Tyranny and Corruption Third Study:
The Principle of Association Fourth Study: The Principle of Authority Fifth
Study: Social Liquidation. Sixth Study: Organisation of Economic Forces 1.
Credit 2. Property 3. Division of Labour, Collective Forces, Machines,
Workers Companies 4. Constitution of Value. Organisation of Low Prices 5.
Foreign Commerce. Balance of Imports and Exports Seventh Study. Absorption
of Government by the Economic Organism Epilogue The Philosophy of Progress
Foreword First Letter: Of The Idea Of Progress Second Letter: Of Certainty
And Its Criterion Letter to Villiaume Stock Exchange Speculator's Manual
Preface Final Considerations 3. Industrial democracy: Labour-labour
partnership or universal mutuality; end of the crisis I. Workers'
Associations II. Consumers' associations Justice In The Revolution And In
The Church Book I: Programme § I: The coming of the people to philosophy §
II: The definition of philosophy § III: On the quality of the philosophical
mind § IV: The origin of ideas § V: That metaphysics is within the province
of primary instruction § VI: That philosophy must be essentially practical
§ VII: The character that must be presented by the guarantee of our
judgements and the rule of our actions âEUR" Conversion from speculative to
practical reason: determination of the criterion § VIII: Justice, the
universal reason of things âEUR" Science and conscience § IX: Supremacy of
Justice § X: Conditions for a philosophical propaganda § XI: Law of
progress: Social destination Book II: Little Political Catechism First
Instruction: Of the social power, considered in itself Instruction II: Of
the appropriation of the collective forces, and the corruption of the
social power Instruction III: Of the forms of government and their
evolution during the pagan-christian period Instruction IV: Constitution of
social power by the Revolution Instruction V: Question of the agenda Letter
to Milliet The Federative Principle First Part: Principle of Federation
Chapter VI: Posing of the Political Problem: Principle of Solution Chapter
VII: Extrication of the Idea of Federation Chapter VIII: Progressive
Constitution Chapter X: Political Idealism: Efficiency of the Federal
Guarantee Chapter XI: Economic Sanction: Agricultural-Industrial Federation
Conclusion Letter to M.X The Political Capacity of the Working Classes To
Some Workers from Paris and Rouen Who Had Sought His Views of the Elections
Second Part: Development of the worker idea: Creation of economic right
Chapter IV: 2. The mutualist system, or, on the Manifesto-Spontaneity of
the idea of mutuality in the modern masses-Definition Chapter VIII:
Application of the principle of mutuality to labour and to wages-Of true
commerce and agiotage Chapter XIII: Association in mutuality Chapter XV:
Objections against mutualist policy. Answer. Main cause of the fall of
States-Relation of the political and economic functions in the new
Democracy Third Part: Political Incompatibilities-Conclusion Chapter IV:
Municipal freedom: that this freedom, primarily federalistic and
incompatible with the unitary system, cannot be claimed by the Opposition
nor granted by the imperial Government Appendix: The Theory of Property
Chapter IX: Summary Appendix: The Paris Commune International
WorkerâEUR(TM)s Association: Federal Council of Parisian Section On the
Organisation of the Commune Paris Today Is Free And In Possession Of
Herself And The Provinces Are In Slavery Declaration Proposal on the
Production of Goods Index