What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

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LibriVox recording of What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Translated by Benjamin R. Tucker. Read in English by Deborah Brabyn; Lynne Thompson; Capybara; Mike; Lucretia B.; Anna Simon; Tim Makarios; Guero; Mary Schneider; Saab; Julia Niedermaier; Diana Majlinger; Elin; Chris Clark; KHand; EccentricOwl; Teddy What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the concept of property and its relation to anarchist philosophy by the French anarchist and mutualist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, first published in 1840. In the book, Proudhon most famously declared that “property is theft”. Proudhon believed that the common conception of property conflated two distinct components which, once identified, demonstrated the difference between property used to further tyranny and property used to protect liberty. He argued that the result of an individual's labor which is currently occupied or used is a legitimate form of property. Thus, he opposed unused land being regarded…

Directors & creators

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; economics; anarchy; anarchist theory; sociology; social sciences

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