What is Property
by Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Method Pursued in This Work
Chapter 2: Property Considered as a Natural Right
- Property as a Natural Right
- Occupation as the Title to Property
- Civil Law as the Foundation and Sanction of Property
Chapter 3: Labor as the Efficient Cause of the Domain of Property
- The Land cannot be appropriated
- Universal Consent no Justification of Property
- Prescription gives no Title to Property
- Labor - That Labor has no Inherent Power to appropriate Natural Wealth
- That Labor leads to Equality of Property
- That in Society all Wages are Equal
- That Inequality of Powers is the Necessary Condition of Equality of Fortunes
- That, from the stand-point of Justice, Labor destroys Property
Chapter 4: Property is Impossible
- Demonstration, Axiom
- First Proposition
- Second Proposition
- Third Proposition
- Fourth Proposition
- Fifth Proposition
- Appendix to the Fifth Proposition
- Sixth Proposition
- Seventh Proposition
- Eighth Proposition
- Ninth Proposition
- Tenth Proposition
Chapter 5: Psychological Exposition of the Idea of Justice and Injustice
PART I
- Of the Moral Sense in Man and the Animals
- Of the First and Second Degrees of Sociability
- Of the Third Degree of Sociability
PART II
- Of the Causes of our Mistakes. The Origin of Property
- Characteristics of Communism and of Property
- Determination of the Third Form of Society.
SECOND MEMOIR: A Letter to M. Blanqui<
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Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10