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Proudhon

American  
[proo-dawn] / pruˈdɔ̃ /

noun

  1. Pierre Joseph 1809–65, French socialist and writer.


Proudhon British  
/ prudɔ̃ /

noun

  1. Pierre Joseph (pjɛr ʒozɛf). 1809–65, French socialist, whose pamphlet What is Property? (1840) declared that property is theft

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In the case of nineteenth-century anarchist socialism, there were two major thinkers: the French Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the Russian Mikhail Bakunin.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Among his heroes, Mr. Wilson cites Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a Frenchman considered by many to be the “father of anarchism.”

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2018

Much of his time was spent disagreeing with other radicals, attacking Proudhon in particular, whom he likened to one of the “bourgeois economists”.

From Economist • Aug. 25, 2016

Students of political economics will recognize similar phrasing in the nineteenth-century anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

From Nature • Jun. 8, 2011

Proudhon became a peaceful Anarchist and found salvation in the scheme of autonomous economic groups, which should carry on an exchange of labour equivalents with one another.

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.