Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · Politics
Proudhon’s refusal of both systems on offer - capitalist property and state communism - and his famous quarrel with Karl Marx, who savaged him in <em>The Poverty of Philosophy</em>: the founding split between libertarian and authoritarian socialism, turning on whether the answer to exploitation is liberty and justice or the conquest of state power.
You learned that Proudhon rejected communism as well as property (‘the exploitation of the strong by the weak’), sought a third form he called liberty, warned that a workers’ state would become a new tyranny, and was attacked by Marx in The Poverty of Philosophy as a moralising petty bourgeois. Expla…
Leads to Karl Marx.
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