Apparently I missed a post on the C4SIF site last March, claiming that Proudhon was an advocate of intellectual property. Now, as I am a notorious softy on that question (or self-serving reactionary, depending on who you ask), I’m less inclined to “pistols at dawn” than some might be, but it doesn’t sound much like the Proudhon I know. You can check the comments for some discussion with Stephan Kinsella about the question, which is rendered more difficult because the text at issue is from the half-translated and notoriously difficult System of Economic Contradictions.
French texts
Ms. 2605 — Essais d’une philosophie populaire. — No. 1.
1) Ms. 2605 Essais d’une philosophie populaire.—No. 1. Programme. I.—De la nécessité de former en Europe une opinion internationale. Les chrétiens ont bien raison d’adorer la Providence : jamais en ce qui est de la direction […]
Contr'un
Proudhon on “libertarians” in 1858
I’ve been working my way through those sections of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church which I didn’t have to consult carefully while writing the chapter on the State, as the […]
Corvus Editions
Proudhon’s “Toast to the Revolution” as a bilingual pamphlet
A new purpose for an old blog, the raison d’être of which had been largely eliminated by my migration of the Libertarian Labyrinth archive to the wiki site: a new series of downloadable pdf pamphlets […]