title: Proudhon: What is Property? (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
author: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
description: Written by a contemporary of Marx and one of the most influential subversive critics of modern European society, this work (1840) has become a classic of political thought through its critique of private property as the essential institution of Western culture as well as the root of its problems.
zlib_text: Essential Proudhon 
  Compiled and Edited by J. Bates 
  
  CONTENTS 
  GOD IS EVIL, MAN IS FREE 
  Introduction 
  God is Evil 
  Man is Free 
  LETTER OF PROUDHON TO MARX 
  THE MALTHUSIANS 
  SYSTEM OF ECONOMICAL CONTRADICTIONS: OR, 
  1 
  1 
  3 
  5 
  16 
  18 
  THE PHILOSOPHY OF POVERTY 
  25 
  Introduction. The hypothesis of a God 
  25 
  Chapter I. Of the Economic Science. 
  51 
  Chapter II. Of Value. 
  72 
  Chapter III. Economic Evolutions. - First Period. - The 
  Division of Labor. 
  110 
  Chapter IV. Second Period. -Machinery. 
  136 
  Chapter V. Third Period. -Competition. 
  1 71 
  Chapter VI. Fourth Period. - Monopoly 
  212 
  Chapter VII. Fifth Period. - Police, Or Taxation. 
  245 
  Chapter VIII. Of the Responsibility of Man and Of God, 
  Under the Law of Contradiction, Or a Solution of the Problem 
  of Providence. 
  303 
  TOAST TO THE REVOLUTION 
  357 
  WHAT IS PROPERTY? AN INQUIRY INTO THE 
  PRINCIPLE OF RIGHT AND OF GOVERNMENT 
  367 
  P. J. Proudhon: His Life and His Works. 
  367 
  "Paris, December 5, 1831. 
  3 71 
  Preface. 
  390 
  
  Fi