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From "The life and teaching of Karl Marx" by Beer, Max
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
French social philosopher and socialist theorist.
Core Belief
"That a just society can be created through the exchange of labor equivalents and the creation of autonomous economic groups."
Worldview
Anarchist, believing in the abolition of government and the creation of a society based on individual freedom and mutual cooperation.
Personality
Gifted but self-taught, he is independent-minded and critical of both capitalism and utopian socialism. He is ambitious but lacks intellectual discipline.
In Their Own Words
"Property is robbery."
"Expressing this according to the Hegelian formula, I should say that Communism, the first kind, the first determination of social life, is the first link in social evolution, the thesis; property is the antagonistic principle, the antithesis; if only we can get the third factor, the synthesis, the question is solved."
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