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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Predicate Object
instanceOf political treatise
advocates local autonomy
political pluralism
voluntary association
aimsTo provide alternative to capitalism
provide alternative to centralized state
author Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
countryOfOrigin France
describes decentralized federalist social order
genre political philosophy
political theory
hasPerspective anti-capitalist
anti-statist
libertarian socialist
pro-federalist
influenced anarchist political thought
decentralist political theory
federalist movements
libertarian socialism
influencedBy 19th-century French republican debates
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s mutualism
language French
mainSubject anti-centralism
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
capitalist economic organization
centralized state power
unitary nation-state
originalTitle Du principe fédératif
philosophicalTradition anarchism
federalism
socialism
proposes bottom-up political organization
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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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The Principle of Federation ("Du principe fédératif")
originalTitle
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ("Du principe fédératif")
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