by margaret | Mar 22, 2020 | anarchism, authority, proudhon
from General Idea of the Revolution I beg that the reader will pardon me, if in the course of this study an expression should escape me which might betray any feeling of self-esteem. I have the double regret, in this great question of authority, of being, on the one...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Feb 11, 2017 | proudhon
from: the general idea of the revolution in the 19th century To you, business men, I dedicate these new essays. You have always been the boldest, the most skillful revolutionaries. It was you who, from the third century of the Christian era, drew the winding-sheet...
by margaret | Jan 9, 2017 | justice, proudhon
The theologians answer: All justice comes from God That is true; but we know no more than before. The philosophers ought to be better informed: they have argued so much about justice and injustice! Unhappily, an examination proves that their knowledge amounts to...
by margaret | Jan 2, 2017 | proudhon
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by margaret | Nov 10, 2016 | proudhon
Of what consequence to you, reader, is my obscure individuality? I live, like you, in a century in which reason submits only to fact and to evidence. My name, like yours, is truth-seeker. My mission is written in these words of the law: Speak without hatred and...
by margaret | Nov 8, 2016 | proudhon
Proudhon 1840 Chapter I. The Idea of a Revolution If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required to show that the...
