Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhonwas a French politician and the founder of mutualist philosophy. He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist and is widely regarded as one of the ideology's most influential theorists. Proudhon is even considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He became a member of the French Parliament after the revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth15 January 1809
CountryFrance
I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!
Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.
The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.
Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.
Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.
Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.
The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.