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.
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Proudhon on Property (1846) – Part 4
THE SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS CHAPTER XI EIGHTH EPOCH.—PROPERTY [continued from Part 3] Of all the forms of property, the most detestable is that which has talent for a pretext. Prove to an artist, by the comparison of times and men, that the inequality of works of art, in the different centuries, above all stems from the oscillating movements of society, from the changing of beliefs and of the state of minds; that whatever a society is worth, so much is the worth of the artist; that between the artist and his contemporaries there exists a community of needs […]
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Ms. 2847 — Théorie de la propriété
[…] [36] Donner une analyse exacte et ferme de toutes mes critiques, Ier Mémoire, 1840 2e Mémoire, 1841 3e Mémoire, 1842 Création de l’ordre, 1843 Contradictions économiques, 1845 Le Peuple, etc., etc., 1848-1852 De la Justice, liv. V., 1858 De l’impôt, 1860 De la propriété littéraire, 1862 Rendre ce résumé aussi intéressant que possible par la hauteur de la question, la force de la critique, le mouvement de mon esprit. Rappeler les réfutations de Mms. Thiers, Troplong, Sudre, etc. Dire et répéter que cette critique est en elle-même indestructible hors une seule hypothèse, (que je ferai bientôt connaître.) ; Qu’en effet, […]
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The Gift Economy of Property (2.0)
Contr’un Revisited: Related: The Gift Economy of Property Trajectories: Proudhon and Property The Larger Antinomy The Gift Economy of Property I. Thesis An adequate, non-simplist, mutualist theory of what is proper to individual human beings, seeking to do justice to the range of things we denominate by the word “property,” will have to account for the nearly unbridgeable separateness that we experience in consciousness, as well as the inextricable interconnection which is our material reality. It will have to, in essence, respond to Max Stirner and Pierre Leroux (or any number of other advocates of a roughly ecological universal circulus.) […]