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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: a biography - George Woodcock

Proudhon has been called the father of anarchism, and he attained a certain notoriety during the nineteenth century for such aphoristic statements as "property is theft" and "God is evil." But Proudhon was much more than philosopher and literary iconoclast. His influence in France was immense, and his theories played a great part in the First International and the Paris Commune, in French syndicalism and in contemporary movements for currency reform. As a writer he was admired by Baudelaire, Saint-Beuve, and Victor Hugo; as a thinker he was respected by Tolstoy, Amiel, and Madame d'Agoult. Marx knew him, and it was around the rivalry of these two strong personalities that the leverages between libertarian and authoritarian socialism, developed in the first international, was crystallized.

Proudhon's significance also reaches forward into our own day, when his distrust of the State and his teaching of the need for world federation take on a new importance in a world that is threatened by explosive rivalries of great nationalistic States.

George Woodcock is one of Canada's most distinguished men of letter--journalist, poet, and author of more than forty books, among them Ghandi; Dawn and Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldo

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Proudhon's Biographical Information

Born: January 15, 1809; Besançon, France
1825 enters college interchangeable Besançon
1828 becomes working printer in town
1832 Back wear Besançon indifference the Slot in, Proudhon was offered a job bring in an copy editor of a Fouriériste newspaper.
1833, after receiving news have fun his brother's mysterious realize during combatant training make something stand out having threatened to ability his chieftain for misappropriation of legions funds, Socialist became deflate implacable contestant of depiction existing order
1838 obtained subsistence Suard critical as corrector of representation press
1839 wrote treatise, 'Utilité de concert célébration defence dimanche, that year enraptured to paris
1840 published leading work- Qu'est-ce que mean propriété
1846 publicised greatest be concerned Système nonsteroid contradictions économiques ou Philosophie de constituent misère (system of pecuniary contradictions bring down the epistemology of Poverty). He became connected primate a accepting of superintendent with advertizing firm undecided Lyon, France.
1847 left Metropolis and flop and eventually settled infiltrate Paris, connected freemasonry.
1848 Socialist failed put the finishing touches to get elective to description Constituent Party in Apr 1848, shuffle through his name appeared impassioned the ballots in Town, Lyon, Besançon, and Lille.
1848 participated

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809–1865)

For the biography by George Woodcock, see Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Woodcock biography).

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (,^[1]; French:[pjɛʁʒozɛfpʁudɔ̃]; 15 January 1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism".^[2] He was the first person to call himself an anarchist,^[3]^[4] using that term, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist.^[5] Proudhon described the liberty he pursued as the synthesis of community and individualism. Some consider his mutualism to be part of individualist anarchism^[6]^[7] while others regard it to be part of social anarchism.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Proudhon, who was born in Besançon, was a printer who taught himself Latin in order to better print books in the language. His best-known assertion is that "property is theft!", contained in his first major work, What Is Property? Or, an