Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Net Worth 2024, Height, Wiki, Age, Bio

 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon facts

• He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist and is widely regarded as one of the ideology's most influential theorists
• Proudhon is even considered by many to be the "father of anarchism"
• He became a member of the French Parliament after the revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist
• Proudhon, who was born in Besançon, was a printer who taught himself Latin in order to better print books in the language
• His best-known assertion is that Property is Theft!, contained in his first major work, What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government (Qu'est-ce que la propriété? Recherche sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement), published in 1840
• The book's publication attracted the attention of the French authorities
• It also attracted the scrutiny of Karl Marx, who started a correspondence with its author
• The two influenced each other: they met in Paris while Marx was exiled there
• Their friendship finally ended when Marx responded to Proudhon's The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty with the provocatively titled The Poverty of Philosophy
• The dispute became one of the sources of the split between the anarchist and Marxist wings of the International Working Men's Association