What is Property?: Property is Theft! Proudhon Pierre-Joseph
'One of the most vigorous thinkers of the age ... the prophet of modern society.' The New York TimesPierre-Joseph Proudhon was one of the most important and influential political theorists of the 19th…
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'One of the most vigorous thinkers of the age ... the prophet of modern society.' The New York TimesPierre-Joseph Proudhon was one of the most important and influential political theorists of the 19th century. On publication, Proudhon's first significant book What Is Property? created a sensation - in its pages, he declared 'I am an anarchist' and 'Property is theft!' The latter is Proudhon's - and potentially anarchism's - most famous quote, but maybe also the most misconstrued. 'When [Proudhon] says that property is theft, he's talking about the constitutional right to exclusive ownership ... In the world, everything belongs to everybody in common; you have to invent a principle to justify why I should have more than you. And as soon as you do that, Proudhon says, you deprive everybody else of ownership. The dispossessed become