Property is Theft!

A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

Edited by

Iain McKay

I dedicate this book to my daughters.
May it show the importance of being bilingual!

Introduction: General Idea of the Revolution in the 21st Century

“Workers, labourers, men of the people, whoever you may be, the initiative of reform is yours. It is you who will accomplish that synthesis of social composition which will be the masterpiece of creation, and you alone can accomplish it.”

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -- What Is Property? Third Memoir

• What is Property?
  
• Letter to M.Blanqui on Property
  
• Letter to Antoine Gauthier
  
• Letter to Karl Marx
• System of Economic Contradictions: Volume I
  
• System of Economic Contradictions: Volume II
  
• Solution of the Social Problem
  
• Organisation of Credit and Circulation and the Solution of the Social Problem
  
• 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 Représentant 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
  
• Confessions of a Revolutionary
  
• Resistance to the Revolution
  
• Letter to Pierre Leroux
  
• In Connection with Louis Blanc
  
• Interest and Principal
  
• General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
  
• Letter to Villiaumé
  
• Stock Exchange Speculator’s Manual
  
• Justice In The Revolution And In The Church
  
• Letter to Milliet
  
• The Federative Principle
  
• Letter to M.X
  
• The Political Capacity of the Working Classes
  

Appendix: The Theory of Property

Appendix: The Paris Commune

Glossary of Terms, People and Events

Supplemental Material (online only)

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