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By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1846)

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(1809 - 1865)

Father of Anarcho-Mutualism

: ...he turned his talents instead to the printer's trade, a profession which gave birth to many anarchists, but the first to call himself an anarchist was Proudhon. By mid-century, Proudhon was the leading left intellectual in France or for that matter, all of Europe, far surpassing Marx's notoriety or Bakunin's. Proudhon... (From: Dana Ward Bio.)
• "What is your flag? Association! And your motto? Equality before fortune! Where are you taking us? To Brotherhood!" (From: "Toast to the Revolution," by Pierre-Joseph Proudh....)
• "The revolution, in that epoch, without abandoning its first given, took another name, which was already celebrated. It called itself philosophy." (From: "Toast to the Revolution," by Pierre-Joseph Proudh....)
• "Revolutions are the successive manifestation of justice in human history. — It is for this reason that all revolutions have their origins in a previous revolution." (From: "Toast to the Revolution," by Pierre-Joseph Proudh....)


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Proudhon, Pierre Joseph. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library



THE
WORKS OF P. J. PROUDHON

VOLUME IV.
SYSTEM OF ECONOMICAL CONTRADICTIONS.
I.

Published and Sold by
BENJAMIN R. TUCKER, BOSTON, MASS.
1888

SYSTEM
OF
ECONOMICAL CONTRADICTIONS
OR,
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MISERY.

BY
P. J. PROUDHON

Destruam et ædificabo.
Deuteronomy: c. 32.


VOLUME FIRST.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY
BENJAMIN R. TUCKER

Published and Sold by
BENJAMIN R. TUCKER, BOSTON, MASS.
1888

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE



CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER I.

OF THE ECONOMIC SCIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

1. Opposition between Fact and Right in Social Economy43

2. Inadequacy of Theories and Criticisms . . .52

CHAPTER II.

OF VALUE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

1. Opposition of Value in Use and Value in Exchange73

2. Constitution of Value; Definition of Wealth91

3. Application of the Law of Proportionality of Values108

CHAPTER III.

ECONOMIC EVOLUTIONS. -- FIRST PERIOD. -- THE DIVISION OF LABOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

1. Antagonistic Effects of the Principle of Division131

2. Impotence of Palliatives. -- MM. Blanqui, Chevalier, Dunoyer, Rossi, ant Passy . . . . . . . 144

CHAPTER IV.

SECOND PERIOD. -- MACHINERY . . . . . . . . . . 168

1. Of the Function of Machinery in its Relations to Liberty170

2. Machinery's Contradiction. -- Origin of Capital and Wages184

3. Of Preservatives against the Disastrous Influence of Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

CHAPTER V.

THIRD PERIOD. -- COMPETITION. . . . . . . . . . 217

1. Necessity of Competition. . . . . . . . . 217

2. Subversive Effects of Competition, and the Destruction of Liberty thereby . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

3. Remedies against Competition. . . . . . . 258

CHAPTER VI.

FOURTH PERIOD. -- MONOPOLY. . . . . . . . . . . 272

1. Necessity of Monopoly . . . . . . . . . . 273

2. The Disasters in Labor and the Perversion of Ideas caused by Monopoly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

CHAPTER VII.

FIFTH PERIOD.POLICE, OR TAXATION. . . . . . . . 319

1. Synthetic Idea of the Tax.Point of Departure and Development of this Idea. . . . . . . . 321

2. Antinomy of the Tax . . . . . . . . . . . 332

3. Disastrous and Inevitable Consequences of the Tax. (Provisions, Sumptuary Laws, Rural and Industrial Police, Patents, Trade-Marks, etc.). . . . . . . . . . . 348

CHAPTER VIII.

OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN AND OF GOD, UNDER THE LAW OF CONTRADICTION, OR A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

1. The Culpability of Man. -- Exposition of the Myth of the Fall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

2. Exposition of the Myth of Providence. -- Retrogression of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

From : University of Virginia Library

(1809 - 1865)

Father of Anarcho-Mutualism

: ...he turned his talents instead to the printer's trade, a profession which gave birth to many anarchists, but the first to call himself an anarchist was Proudhon. By mid-century, Proudhon was the leading left intellectual in France or for that matter, all of Europe, far surpassing Marx's notoriety or Bakunin's. Proudhon... (From: Dana Ward Bio.)
• "Revolutions are the successive manifestation of justice in human history. — It is for this reason that all revolutions have their origins in a previous revolution." (From: "Toast to the Revolution," by Pierre-Joseph Proudh....)
• "The revolution, in that epoch, without abandoning its first given, took another name, which was already celebrated. It called itself philosophy." (From: "Toast to the Revolution," by Pierre-Joseph Proudh....)
• "What is your flag? Association! And your motto? Equality before fortune! Where are you taking us? To Brotherhood!" (From: "Toast to the Revolution," by Pierre-Joseph Proudh....)

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