Property is Theft

Proudhon Library

Review of “Property is Theft!” (Black Flag, 2014)

December 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related links: Proudhon Library (main page) Black Flag 236 (Libcom) Purchase Property is Theft (AK Press) During his lifetime Pierre-Joseph Proudhon published two dozen works, ranging from pamphlets to the six-volume Justice in the Revolution and in the Church. Another fifteen were published posthumously. His published notebooks and correspondence add another seventeen volumes, and his unpublished manuscripts (many of which are now being digitized by the Ville de Besançon) contain several thousand pages of important material. Yet, until recently, all that has been available of Proudhon’s work in English has been four complete volumes (What is Property?, Letter to M. […]
French texts

Jules Leroux, “Economie politique” (1838)

August 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
ÉCONOMIE POLITIQUE. — Ce que l’on a costume de désigner sous ce nom n’est pas la science, mais un système, [1] et comme notre dessein dans l’article que l’on va lire est de nous occuper précisément de la science, non du système, il ne sera peut-être pas inutile de faire précéder cet article de quelques mots d’introduction. Fidèle au nom qu’elle porte, l’Economie politique est la recherche de la loi, de l’arrangement des diverses parties constituantes de la nation, le but de cette loi étant de donner à la nation son plus grand bien-être, sa plus grande prospérité, sa plus […]
Contr'un

“What is certain is that property is to be regenerated among us”

January 2, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur
[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [commentary coming soon] [/ezcol_1third][ezcol_2third_end] I was asked to clarify Proudhon’s position on property, by someone reading the AK Press anthology, Property is Theft! I had been under the impression that, although Iain McKay’s introductory material consistently claims that Proudhon did not “change his mind” about property, the concluding chapter of The Theory of Property was included—and there is nothing ambiguous about that material. Unfortunately, besides placing the material from The Theory of Property in an Appendix, and suggesting that Proudhon had considered it of less importance than The Political Capacity of the Working Classes, which he was […]
Contr'un

“Property is Theft!” book launch in London

April 15, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur
[From Iain McKay] Freedom Bookshop is hosting the book launch of“Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph ProudhonAnthology”. This is the new comprehensive anthology of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s writings published by AK Press. Proudhon was the first person to call themselves an anarchist and his ideas on property, state, exploitation, workers self-management, federalism and anarchy defined anarchism as a socio-economic theory. Join Iain McKay, the editor of “Property is Theft!”and author of “An Anarchist FAQ”, to discuss Proudhon’s ideas and why they are still importanttoday. “Property is Theft!” book launch: Saturday, 2pm to 4pm,21st May 2011 Freedom Bookshophttp://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/bookshop/ Angel Alley84b Whitechapel High StreetLondon […]