Property Is Theft!

by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Constitution of Year III

  Le Constitutionnel

  constitutions

  and balance of power

  era of constitutions

  Constitutions of Year I and Year II

  consumers’ associations

  consumption

  contract . See also reciprocity. social contract

  contradiction

  contrat de pacotille

  Convention

  co-operatives. See also workers’ companies, workers’ associations

  de Cormenin

  corporations

  corruption

  councils. See clubs

  counter-revolution. See also reaction

  Courbet, Gustave

  Cour des comptes

  Cousin, Victor

  credit. See also interest

  and time

  liberty of

  organisation of

  public

  right to

  Crédit foncier

  Crémieux, Adolphe

  criticism

  Cuvier, Georges Frédéric

  D

  daguerreotype

  Dana, Charles A.

  Danton, Georges Jacques

  Darimon, Louis-Alfred

  decentralisation

  as more effective

  Declaration des droits et des devoirs de l’homme et du citoyen

  Déjacque, Joseph

  democracy

  ancient Greece

  and majority rule

  as abolition of the State

  fear of the People

  industrial

  socialistic

  tendency towards

  versus republic

  La Démocratie Pacifique

  Democritus of Thrace

  department

  deputies

  Descartes, René

  Deschamps, M. E.

  despotism

  de Staël, Madame

  de Warville, J.P. Brissot

  dialectic

  dictatorship

  Dillard, Dudley

  direct government

  direct legislation

  Directorate

  distributive justice

  divine right

  division of labour

  divorce

  Doctrinaires

  Douglas, Dorothy W.

  droit d’aubaine

  Droz, J.

  dual power

  Duclerc, Charles

  Dufaure, Jules Armand

  Dunoyer, M.

  Dupin, Pierre-Charles-François

  Duprat, Pascal

  E

  eclecticism

  economic forces

  economics

  as discipline. See political economy

  relation to politics

  Edinburgh Review

  education

  free

  Edwards, Stewart

  Ehrenberg, John

  Eighteenth of Brumaire

  election of positions

  electoral politics

  Ellerman, David

  eminent domain

  emphyteusis

  empire

  Engels, Friedrich

  entertainment

  free/state sponsored

  equality

  commerce as a cause of

  of income

  equilibrium

  Ewerbeck, Hermann

  exchange

  contractual nature of

  exchange value

  exploitation, See also surplus value

  F

  Falloux, Frédéric-Alfred-Pierre, comte de

  family

  farm-rent. See ground-rent, rent

  Faucher, Léonard Joseph Léon

  Faure, Sébastien

  federalism. See also federation

  federation

  agricultural-industrial

  and separation

  composition and decomposition of

  economic

  futility of insurrection

  feminism

  feudalism

  industrial

  von Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas

  Fichte, Johann Gottlieb

  First International. See International Workingmen’s Association

  Flocon, Ferdinand

  force. See also violence

  force majeure

  foreign policy

  French

  foreign trade

  customs

  postrevolutionary

  Foucault, Michel

  Fourier, François Marie Charles

  de Franc, Meynard

  Franco-Prussian war

  fraternity

  free credit

  freedom. See also liberty

  of assembly

  of teaching [liberté de l’enseignement]

  Freedom (newspaper)

  free trade

  free will

  French Revolution

  Friedman, Milton

  G

  Galbraith, John Kenneth

  Garnier-Pagès, Louis-Antoine

  garnisaires

  Gemie, Sharif

  general will

  de Genoude, Antoine Eugene

  geography

  German Confederation

  Gesell, Silvio

  de Girardin, Émile

  Girondins

  Gluckstein, Donny

  gold. See money: specie

  Goldman, Emma

  government. See also the State

  inherently counterrevolutionary

  ministries

  postrevolutionary

  representative

  tendency towards complexity

  governmentalism. See also politics

  Great Revolution. See French Revolution

  greed

  Greene, William B.

  Grotius, Hugo

  ground-rent. See also rent

  Grun, Karl

  guaranteeism

  Guérin, Daniel

  guilds

  and masterships

  Guillaume, James

  Guillaumin, Gilbert-Urbain

  Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume

  Gutenberg, Johannes

  H

  de Hauranne, Duvergier

  Haymarket police riot (1886)

  von Haynau, Julius Jacob

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

  Helvetic federation

  Hennequin, Joseph

  Herzen, Alexander

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Hoffman, Robert L.

  Holy Alliance

  House of Bourbon

  Hume, David

  Hyams, Edward

  I

  idealism

  in philosophy

  ideas

  ideology

  imperative mandate [mandat imperatif ]

  imperialism

  increase. See aubaine

  independence

  industrialisation

  industrial tribunals [prud’hommes]

  Industrial Workers of the World

  industry

  alleged nostalgia for pre-industrial economic forms

  large-scale

  inequality

  natural

  infinity

  inflation

  insurrection

  right to

  intelligence

  interest . See also credit

  as opposed to wages

  equality for all of

  historical legitimacy of

  International Workingmen’s Association

  Basel Congress of 1869

  Brussels Congress

  Geneva Congress of 1866

  Hague Congress of 1872

  Lausanne Congress of 1867

  irony

  Italy

  J

  Jacobins

  joint-stock company

  de Jouffroy, Marquis

  Journal des Débats

  Journal du Peuple

  judiciary

  Ju
ne Days. See 1848 Revolution, June insurrection

  juste-milieu

  justice

  and power

  K

  Kant, Immanuel

  Kenafick, K.J.

  Keynes, John Maynard

  King, J.E.

  King John

  Kropotkin, Peter

  L

  de Laboulaye, Édouard René Lefèbvre

  labour

  agricultural

  and machinery

  and monopoly

  and property

  division of

  mobility and service-books

  organisation of

  recomposition of

  right to work

  value of-

  Lacordaire, Abbé Henri

  de La Fayette, Marquis

  Lalanne, Léon

  de Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat

  de Lamennais, Félicité Robert

  land

  and property

  land bank

  Langlois, J.A.

  language. See also style

  law

  differing conceptions of

  independence from

  trial by jury

  Law, John

  Law of 1790

  Law of May 5th, 1855

  lawyers

  Lechevalier, André Louis Jules

  Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre Auguste

  legitimacy

  Legitimism

  von Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

  Leninism

  Léo, André

  Le Père Duchêne

  Lerminier, Jean Louis Eugène

  Leroux, Pierre

  liberalism

  as antiauthoritarian

  economic

  libertarian

  La Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social

  liberty

  balanced with authority

  necessarily entangled with authority

  of labour

  Linnaeus, Carl

  liquidation

  Loi Le Chapelier

  Loire

  mining industry

  Loi Waldeck-Rousseau

  London International Exhibition

  Loriquets, Père

  Louis IX

  Louis-Philippe

  Louis XIV

  Louis XVI

  Lum, Dyer

  Luther, Martin

  Luxembourg Commission

  luxury

  Lycurgus

  Lyon 1834 revolt

  M

  Machiavelli, Niccolò

  machinery

  Malet’s conspiracy

  Malthus, Thomas Robert

  Manifesto of Sixty

  Marat, Jean-Paul

  markets

  Marrast, Marie-Francois-Pascal-Armand

  marriage

  Marseillaise

  Marxism

  Marx, Karl

  Communist Manifesto

  The Holy Family

  The Poverty of Philosophy

  materialism

  Mattick, Paul

  Maximum Price Laws of 1793

  Mazzini, Giuseppe

  McNally, David

  medicine

  metaphysics

  Michelet, Jules

  Michel, Louise

  middle class

  military

  as counter-insurrectionary force

  Milliet, Étienne

  Mill, John Stuart

  Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de

  Molé, Louis-Mathieu

  monarchy

  constitutional

  Mondragon co-operative

  money

  based in products

  paper

  specie

  Le Moniteur

  monopoly

  and taxation

  de Montalembert, Charles

  de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et

  monuments

  morality

  Moravians

  Morelly

  More, Thomas

  mortgages

  Moses

  Most, Johann

  the Mountain

  multitude

  municipal liberties

  mutuality

  and government

  and law

  and social stability

  term, contrasted with “association”

  mythology

  N

  Napoléon I. See Bonaparte, Napoléon

  Napoléon III. See Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon

  Le National

  National Assembly

  National Bank (Proudhon’s proposed)

  national debt

  national industry

  nationalisation

  of banking

  nationalism

  national unity

  national workshops

  natural right

  nature

  as world-soul

  neo-liberalism

  Netherlands Confederation

  O

  occupation

  opinion

  as a source of value

  order

  organic

  as metaphor for social composition

  centralisation

  organisation of society

  Organic Articles

  organisation

  industrial versus political

  of credit

  of labour

  self-organising character of

  Oudinot, Charles Nicolas Victor

  over-production

  Owen, Robert

  P

  de Paepe, César

  Paris

  as capital city

  Paris Commune

  parliamentarism

  participatory budgeting

  parties

  Pascal, Blaise

  passports

  patriarchy

  peace

  international

  peasantry

  inherent rejection of association

  Pecqueur, Constantin

  Pelloutier, Fernand

  pensions

  the People

  Petetin, Anselme

  Péthion, Alexandre

  “Petit Catéchisme Politique”

  Le Peuple

  phalanstery

  Philippe-le-Bel

  philosophy

  and arithmetical certainty

  and democracy

  and equality

  and idealism

  and method

  and practice

  and propaganda

  and religion

  defined

  definition of

  dualistic character of

  grounded in relationship to the Other

  of right (justice)

  origin of ideas

  popular and revolutionary

  relation to religion

  subject and object

  Picard, Ernest

  Piégard, Euphrasie

  Pius IX

  Plato

  poetry

  Poland

  police

  class character of

  postrevolutionary

  political economy

  politics

  relation to economics

  Pope Pius VII

  popular sovereignty. See the People

  population

  Portalis, Jean-Étienne-Marie

  Pothier, Robert-Joseph

  poverty

  power. See also authority

  auto-demolition of

  immanent to society

  limits to

  precedence (privelege)

  prefect

  prefecture

  prescription

  Presidency

  press

  freedom of

  La Presse

  prices

  imperfect

  prisons

  as tool of political repression

  Proudhon’s imprisonment

  probabilismr />
  production

  profit

  progress

  and socialism

  proletariat

  division through xenopobia

  genocidal policies toward

  property

  air and water

  allodial

  and abuses

  and appropriation

  and consent

  and despotism

  and divine right

  and eminent domain

  and equality

  and force

  and increase

  and justice

  and labor

  and labour

  and land

  and money

  and natural rights

  and occupation

  and possession

  and prescription

  and society

  and theft

  and the State

  as an impediment to production

  as quality

  collective

  collective possession, communio

  equality

  equilibration of

  identity with authority

  individual possession (proprietas)

  land

  legal defiitions of

  legal definitions of

  legal fiction

  national

  natural right of

  necesarily egoistic character

  possession

  revolutionary liquidation of real estate

  regulation of

  right of use and abuse

  right to

  Slavic possession

  socialisation of

  under socialism

  proportionality

  of values

  providence

  Provisional Government

  public order

  public utilities

  public works

  and workers’ associations

  and workers’ companies

  Q

  Queen Victoria

  Quesnay, François

  R

  racism

  Radical Party

  raison d’État

  Raphael

  Raspail, François-Vincent

  Rateau, Jean-Pierre

  reaction

  anti-industrial

  post-revolutionary immunity to

  Reagan, Ronald

  reason. See science

  reciprocity

  philosophical conception of

  red flag

  Reformation

  La Réforme

  reforms

  Reid, Thomas

  relationship

  religion

  after the revolution

  and justice

  as a force of reaction

  as justification of hierarchical power

  postrevolutionary

  relationship to political economy

  relationship to state power

  relationship to State power

  relationship to State Power

  relationship with state power

  sanctification of political constitution

  theocratic State

  rent

  rentier

  rentiers

  Le Représentant du Peuple

  representative democracy

  Republic

  responsibility