Welcome to the Proudhon Library

A NEW PROUDHON LIBRARY (Draft translations)

Application for the Suard Pension (1837) (text — last revised July, 2017)

Psychology (unpublished manuscript, 1838) (text — last revised November 2022)

The Celebration of Sunday (1839) [revision pending] (pdf — last revised November 2023)

• Notes and manuscript material from the Rivière edition

What is Property? (1840)

• First and Second Memoirs (Benjamin R. Tucker translation)
• Notes on the text

Warning to the Proprietors (1841) [text — last revised March, 2023]

Explanations Presented to the Public Prosecutor on the Right of Property (1842) [revision pending] (text — last revised 2012)

The Creation of Order in Humanity (1843) [translation in progress]

• Definitions and Chapter I (draft — last revised August 2023)
• Chapter II (draft — last revised August 2023)
• Chapter III (draft — last revised August 2023)
• Chapter IV
• Chapter V
• Chapter VI

The Miserere (1845) (text — last revised March 25, 2023)

Revolutionary Ideas (1848) (selected articles)

• The Malthusians (Benjamin R. Tucker translation)
• Toast to the Revolution (1848) (text — last revised 2012)
• [drafts]

The Right to Work and the Right of Property (1848) (text — last revised April 2023)

Solution of the Social Problem (1848) (text — last revised March, 2023)

• The Revolution in 1848
• Democracy

The Organization of Credit and Circulation

• Program

Bank of Exchange (1848) (translation in progress)

• What is Property? (text — last revised March, 2023)

Articles from “Le Peuple” (1849)

• Demonstration of Socialism, Theoretical and Practical, or Revolution by Credit (last revised July 2023)
• Proudhon before the Court of Assizes (last revised June 2023)

Acts of the Revolution (1849)

• What is Government? What is God? [unrevised translation]
• Resistance to the Revolution

The Present Utility and Future Possibility of the State (1849-1850)

• Sixth Article (text — last revised December 2014)

Economy (1850-1855)

• The Extremes [draft]
• Principles of the Philosophy of Progress [text — translation in progress]

Philosophy of Progress: Program (1853) [revision in progress] (pdf — last revised 2012)

“What, Finally, is the Republic” (manuscript, c. 1858) (text — last revised May 2.2023)

How Business is Going in France and Why Will Have War, If We Have It (1859) [text — in progress]

Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Revised Edition (1860)

• Volume One: Program, Preliminary Address, First, Second and Third Studies [PDF, revised draft]
• Volume Two: Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Studies [PDF, revised draft]

• Popular Philosophy: Program (revised September 1, 2023)
• Preliminary Address (revised September 1, 2023)
• First Study: Position of the Problem of Justice (revised September 1, 2023)
• Second Study: Persons (revised September 1, 2023)
• Third Study: Goods (revised September 1, 2023)
• Fourth Study: The State (revised November 1, 2023)
• Fifth Study: Education (revised November 1, 2023)
• Sixth Study: Labor (revised November 1, 2023)
• Seventh Study: Ideas [draft complete; revision pending]
• Eighth Study: Conscience and Liberty [draft complete; revision pending]
• Ninth Study: Progress and Decadence [draft complete; revision pending]
• Tenth Study: Love and Marriage [draft complete; revision pending]
• Eleventh Study: Love and Marriage (continued) [draft complete; revision pending]
• Twelfth Study: Of Moral Sanction [draft complete; revision pending]
• News of the Revolution: Of the Pornocracy in Modern Times [draft complete; revision pending]

Theory of Taxation [translation in progress]

The Sworn Democrats and the Refractories (1863) (pdf — last revised May 4, 2023)

Political Geography and Nationality [translation in progress]

Guarantism: Theory of Property [revision in progress]

The Federative Principle [translation in progress; Part Two: draft complete]

France and Rhine [translation in progress]

Supplemental texts:

• Eugène de Mirecourt, The Contemporaries: Proudhon [revision in progress]
• Eugène de Mirecourt, Lettres de Monsieur P.-J. Proudhon
• Jenny P. d’Héricourt, Woman Emancipated [draft complete (Vol. 1, Vol. 2); revision pending]
• André Léo, Woman and Mores [draft complete; revision pending]
• Juliette Lambert, Anti-Proudhonian Ideas (2nd Edition) [translation in progress]
• Léon Walras, L’Économie politique et la justice