The Principle of Federation
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The Principle of Federation is a political treatise by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that outlines his vision of a decentralized, federalist social order as an alternative to both centralized state power and capitalism.
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| instanceOf |
political treatise
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| advocates |
local autonomy
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political pluralism → voluntary association → |
| aimsTo |
provide alternative to capitalism
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provide alternative to centralized state → |
| author |
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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| countryOfOrigin |
France
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| describes |
decentralized federalist social order
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| genre |
political philosophy
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political theory → |
| hasPerspective |
anti-capitalist
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anti-statist → libertarian socialist → pro-federalist → |
| influenced |
anarchist political thought
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decentralist political theory → federalist movements → libertarian socialism → |
| influencedBy |
19th-century French republican debates
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s mutualism → |
| language |
French
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| mainSubject |
anti-centralism
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autonomy of communes → contractual federal pact → critique of capitalism → critique of the unitary state → decentralization → federalism → mutualism → political organization → self-government → social order → subsidiarity → |
| opposes |
authoritarianism
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capitalist economic organization → centralized state power → unitary nation-state → |
| originalTitle |
Du principe fédératif
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| philosophicalTradition |
anarchism
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federalism → socialism → |
| proposes |
bottom-up political organization
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contract-based political association → federation of communes → federation of regions → |
| relatedWork |
The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
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What is Property? → |
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The Principle of Federation
("Du principe fédératif")
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
("Du principe fédératif")
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