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Thank you Nicholas. My French is just barely
adequate to discern the absolute opposition, for
Proudhon, between property and society. However,
no single quote can be dispositive of the issue,
for three reasons: One, no sufficiently complex
thinker is ever completely self-consistent
(that's what makes thinking interesting); two,
thinking evolves (at least for those who are
still thinking), and; three, people use the same
word in different senses in different contexts.
Property, in the sense of the new-fangled
Napoleonic Code or the Statute of Frauds would
certainly be, in Proudhon's view, repugnant to
society. But property in the sense of occupation
and use would indeed represent freedom for J. P.
But I don't know if J. P. ever uses the term
property in this latter sense. At least, I can
find no example of where he does.
John C. M?daille
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