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What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · Project Gutenberg · 1995

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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EstablishedIn What Is Property? (1840) Proudhon declared that property is theft ('robbery' in Tucker's translation), defined property as a 'right of increase' — the power to produce without labour — and defended individual possession as 'the condition of social life'.