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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

George Woodcock · Encyclopaedia Britannica · 2026

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EstablishedProudhon declared 'I am an anarchist' and 'Property is theft!' in What Is Property? (1840), but attacked only property by which one person exploits another's labour, defending possession of land and tools as essential to liberty.EstablishedProudhon's mutualism envisaged workers' associations and mutual credit, and his federalism opposed centralised political organisation; Bakunin called him 'the master of us all'.