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Manifesto of the Sixty Workers of the Seine (1864)
I was looking at how much of Proudhon’s Political Capacity of the Working Classes I had translated at various times into English, with some thought about taking it up as the next logical bit of […]
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An obscure Proudhon volume
The Besancon archive contains a number of Proudhon’s manuscripts, but also several scanned books, one of which appears to be quite obscure: Comment les affaires vont en France, et pourquoi nous aurons la guerre, si […]
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Proudhon on the “right to punish”
[Here is another section from the study on moral sanction, the concluding section of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church.] II. — Does society have the right to punish? The philosophers struggle, and […]
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Proudhon and the coup d’état of 1851
One of the things that ought to be clear from recent developments here is that sometimes the most interesting, and also the most unexpected, insights into Proudhon’s work come from double-checking those things that “everyone […]
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Proudhon on the State in 1861
You might expect that Proudhon’s theory of the state would be most succinctly expressed in one of his essays on the subject of the state, like “Resistance to the Revolution” of the “Small Political Catechism.” […]