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What Is Property?

What Is Property?

Pierre Proudhon

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What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government is a work of political philosophy 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".

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