Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · Politics
Proudhon was the first thinker to call himself an anarchist and to give the word a positive meaning - not chaos but ‘order without government,’ a society held together by contract and reciprocity rather than by the command of any ruler.
You learned that Proudhon was the first self-described anarchist, that he redefined ‘anarchy’ as order without a ruler (not disorder), that he thought all government - even democracy - substitutes the will of men for the reign of justice, and that his indictment of being ‘governed’ is one of th…
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