Writings by Proudhon
BETWEEN the hundred-headed hydra, division of labour, and the unconquered dragon, machinery, what will become of humanity? A prophet has said it more than two thousand years ago: Satan looks on his victim, and the fires of war are kindled, Aspexit gentes, et dissolvit. To save us from two scourges, famine and pestilence, Providence sends us discord.
“I HAVE witnessed with profound regret the CONTINUANCE OF DISTRESS in the manufacturing districts of the country.”
Words of Queen Victoria on the reassembling of parliament.
The fundamental idea, the dominant category, of political economy is VALUE.
Value reaches its positive determination by a series of oscillations between supply and demand.
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I affirm the REALITY of an economic science.
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or, the Philosophy of Misery
1846
Translation by Benjamin R. Tucker
Destruam et ædificabo[1]
Deuteronomy: c. 32
Translator: Mitch Abidor (Declaration to the French People and International Worker’s Association: Federal Council of Parisian Sections) and Paul Sharkey (On the Organisation of the Commune, Paris Today Is Free. . . and On the Production of Goods During the Commune).
International Worker’s Association: Federal Council of Parisian Sections
Translator: Barry Marshall
Lyons, 17th May 1846
My Dear Monsieur Marx,
I will gladly agree to be one of the recipients of your correspondence, the aim and organisation of which seems very useful to me.
La Voix du Peuple
3rd December, 1849
Translation by Benjamin R. Tucker
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