num_pages: 267
description: This is a new translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential, and subversive critics of modern French and European society. What is Property? (1840) has become a classic of political thought through its wide-ranging and deep-reaching critique of private property as at once the essential institution of Western culture and the root cause of greed, corruption, political tyranny, social division, and violation of natural law.
language: English
title: Proudhon: What is Property?
titlecomplete: Proudhon: What is Property? (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
genres: Classics, France, History, Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, Anarchism, Nonfiction, Theory, Politics
ratings_count: 1469
publisher: Cambridge University Press