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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [ˈpruːd ɒn] in British English, [pʁu dɔ̃] in French) (January 15, 1809 – January 19, 1865) was a French mutualist political philosopher who was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist" and is considered among the first anarchist thinkers.
Aug 22, 2023 · Aug 22, 2023 • By Joseph T F Roberts, PhD Political Philosophy. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is generally considered to be one of the founding fathers of anarchism. In fact, he was the first person to describe themselves as an anarchist, arguing for a society of free and equal citizens, in which power and property are decentralized, and people are ...
Jul 19, 2021 · On Capitalism and Socialism. On War and Peace. On Slavery and Race. On Legacies. Conclusions. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) is usually considered as the father of anarchism, someone who both raised the main ideas of libertarian socialist thought and named them when he proclaimed “I am an anarchist” in 1840. [1]
May 11, 2018 · The political philosopher and journalist Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1864) was the greatest of the French anarchists. His insistence that a new society should be created by moral methods led to his disavowal of revolutionary violence. Pierre Joseph Proudhon was born of a poor family in Besançon.
Dec 16, 2023 · Proudhon strongly reacts against reactionary political metaphysics and reinterprets the triad as a “series”, where any point follows, but also contradicts and reacts against the precedent or prior point of it (Proudhon 1929b).
Jan 1, 2018 · Proudhon declared himself against capitalism, the exploitation of man by man; against statism, the government of man by man; against communism, ‘the degradation of the personality in the name of society’, and against Christianity, ‘a system of personal degradation in the name of right’.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon has been called the father of anarchism, a title that is accurate insofar as organized anarchist movements throughout the world can be traced to his teachings and to the actions of his disciples. Proudhon was also the first writer deliberately to accept the title of anarchist, which he did in 1840.
