The previous post, “What is certain is that property is to be regenerated among us,” has spurred some further research on the relation of The Theory of Property to Proudhon’s works of the early 1860s. Check the comment thread for a number of of interesting items from Proudhon’s correspondence, and the Libertarian Library blog for the “Notice to the Reader” from The Principle of Art, the first of the Posthumous Works.
Anarchist Beginnings
Joseph Déjacque, “The Universal Circulus” (revised translation)(1858)
[This remarkable bit of libertarian philosophy by Joseph Déjacque poses all sorts of difficulties for the modern reader, not the least of which is it borrowings from, and reworkings of, the works of Charles Fourier […]
Contr'un
Notes on “the disposition of intellectual products”
I’m always surprised by the lasting (and often false) impression that this bit of off-the-cuff theorizing has left in certain circles. But I’m also generally pleasantly surprised, when I am reminded of its existence that, […]
Contr'un
The Gift Economy of Property: From Property to Gifts
The Gift Economy of Property Thesis From the Self to Property From Property to Gifts Gifting Property 3. I’m obviously not talking about “property” in any of the very narrow senses that it has […]