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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Proudhon: What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , Edited by Donald R. Kelley , Edited by Bonnie G. Smith
This is a 1994 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. His What is Property? 1840 produced the answer Property is theft; the book itself 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. A critical and historical introduction situates Proudhons diabolical work as he called it in the context of nineteenth-century social and legal controversy and of the history of political thought in general.show more