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

    Written by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    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 as property, believing that land can only be rightfully possessed by use or occupation (which he called "possession"). As an extension of his belief that legitimate property (possession) was the result of labor and occupation, he argued against such institutions as interest on loans and rent.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014

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