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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (French: [pjɛʁ ʒɔzɛf pʁudɔ̃]; 15 January 1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French politician and the founder of mutualist philosophy. 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.

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Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Communism, Exploitation, Mediocrity, Strong, Weak

Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.

Circle, Fall, Frightful, Squaring, Struggle, Thinking

To be governed. . . is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

Directed, Law, Libertarian, Liberty, Regulated, Wisdom

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

Merely, Names, Nothing, Numbers, Race, Rests

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Common, Equality, Excellence, Level, Strong

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Communism, Exploitation, Strong, Weak

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

Governed, Governor, Governors, Wish

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

Looks, Philosophical, Philosophy, Proof, Today

The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

Ask, Deliver, Devil, Faults, Remittance, Sin

The notion of anarchy. . . means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.

Exchange, Mean, Order, Social, Taken

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

Foundation, God, Ideas, Principle, Principles, Wherever

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

Can Do, Everything, Government, Nothing

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

Developed, Development, Education, Faculty, Justice, Race

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Absolutism, Exception, Party, Power

If one were to ask. . . "What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . . ?

Answers, Ask, Meaning, Slavery, Theft, Would Be

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Possessions, Prized Possessions, Property, Rich, Stolen

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

Anarchist, Listen, Mean, Order, Serious

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Exchange, Labor, Parasite, Parasites, Receiving, Thieves

Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

Adventure, Discern, Doe, History, Life, Mind

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

Boil, Ideas, Political, Words, Years

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