Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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French person anarchist economist human philosopher political theorist socialist theorist

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a 19th-century French philosopher and economist, best known as a pioneering theorist of anarchism and mutualism whose critiques of property and authority deeply shaped libertarian socialist thought.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person → anarchist → economist → human → philosopher → political theorist → socialist theorist →
countryOfBirth	France →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
countryOfDeath	France →
dateOfBirth	1809-01-15 →
dateOfDeath	1865-01-19 →
era	19th-century philosophy →
familyName	Proudhon →
fullName	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon →
givenName	Pierre-Joseph →
influenced	Mikhail Bakunin → Peter Kropotkin → libertarian socialism → syndicalism →
influencedBy	Immanuel Kant → Jean-Jacques Rousseau → classical political economy →
knownFor	developing the theory of mutualism → formulating the slogan "Property is theft!" → pioneering modern anarchist theory →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
movement	anarchism → libertarian socialism → mutualism →
notableIdea	critique of private property → federalist political organization → workers’ self-management →
notableWork	The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century → The Principle of Federation → The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty → What is Property? →
occupation	journalist → member of parliament → printer → proofreader →
originalTitleOfWork	Du principe fédératif → Idée générale de la révolution au XIXe siècle → Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? → Système des contradictions économiques ou Philosophie de la misère →
placeOfBirth	Besançon →
placeOfDeath	Paris →
politicalIdeology	federalism → mutualist anarchism →
positionHeld	deputy in the French Constituent Assembly of 1848 →
publicationYearOfWork	1840 → 1846 → 1851 → 1863 →
religion	Roman Catholicism (early life) →
sexOrGender	male →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? → The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century → The Principle of Federation → The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty → What is Property? →	author
Georges Sorel → Mikhail Bakunin → Peter Kropotkin → Voltairine de Cleyre → libertarian socialism →	influencedBy
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ("Proudhon") → Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ("Proudhon") →	familyName
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon →	fullName
William Godwin →	influenced
First International →	keyFigure