Proudhon

[proo-dawn]

noun

1. Pierre Joseph 1809–65, French socialist and writer.

Proudhon

/ prudɔ̃ /

noun

1. Pierre Joseph (pjɛr ʒozɛf). 1809–65, French socialist, whose pamphlet What is Property? (1840) declared that property is theft

Example Sentences

Among his heroes, Mr. Wilson cites Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a Frenchman considered by many to be the “father of anarchism.”

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Much of his time was spent disagreeing with other radicals, attacking Proudhon in particular, whom he likened to one of the “bourgeois economists”.

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He sought solace by designing pamphlets that he called experimenta typographica, filled with drawings, collages, typographical doodles and quotations from Le Corbusier, Proudhon, Stendhal and other thinkers he admired.

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"What Is Property?" is Proudhon's most famous work, I believe.

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They ran in the Christmas issue of 1982 and the first one was called Proudhon and Bakunin have tea in Tumbridge Wells.

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