More from P. J. Proudhon

  1. To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance. In giving expression to the last stage of an idea, - an ide…
  2. The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
  3. I have made every effort to obtain exact information, comparing doctrines, replying to objections, continually constructing equations and r…
  4. AXIOM. - Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
  5. I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; th…
  6. The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasi…
  7. Of what consequence to you, reader, is my obscure individuality? I live, like you, in a century in which reason submits only to fact and to…
  8. Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of t…

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