What is property?
By: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ; edited and translated by Donald R. Kelley and Bonnie G. Smith.
Contributors: Kelley, Donald R., 1931-; Smith, Bonnie G., 1940-
Series: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Property; Economics
Description: "This is a 1994 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. His What is Property? (1840) produced the answer 'Property is theft'; the book itself 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. A critical and historical introduction situates Proudhon's 'diabolical work' (as he called it) in the context of nineteenth-century social and legal controversy and of the history of political thought in general." --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-221) and index.
Translation of: Qu'est-ce que la propriété?