What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government
Author: first_name:  Pierre-Joseph
last_name: Proudhon
Language: English
Year: 1876

What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the concept of property and its relation to anarchist philosophy by the French anarchist and mutualist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, first published in 1840.<br><br>
In the book, Proudhon most famously declared that “property is theft”. Proudhon believed that the common conception of prope