Qu’est-ce que la propriété ?

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Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? is a seminal 1840 anarchist treatise by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, famous for the provocative declaration that “property is theft” and its critique of private ownership and economic inequality.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf anarchist work
book
political treatise
aimsTo demonstrate the injustice of property
justify a society without exploitative property relations
author Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
centralThesis economic inequality is structurally produced by property relations
private property is a form of theft
property rights enable exploitation of labor
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes capitalist economic relations
interest
legal foundations of property
private ownership of the means of production
profit
rent
discusses labor and value
law and justice
state and authority
hasForm essay
historicalContext early 19th-century France
influenced Karl Marx
anarchist movement
libertarian socialist thought
socialist theory
influencedBy Enlightenment political philosophy
French socialism
literaryGenre economic theory
political philosophy
mainTopic anarchism
economic inequality
private property
property
social justice
movement classical anarchism
socialism
notability early systematic critique of private property in modern Europe
foundational text of anarchist political philosophy
notableQuote La propriété, c’est le vol !
originalLanguage French
philosophicalTradition mutualism
social anarchism
proposes association of workers
egalitarian economic relations
mutualist organization of society
publicationYear 1840
titleTranslation What is Property?

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
originalTitleOfWork

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