What is Property?1840

<p>“Property is robbery!” This slogan coined by the French political philosopher <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/pierre-joseph-proudhon">Pierre-Joseph Proudhon</a> is one of his answers to the titular question of his 1840 treatise, <i>What Is Property?</i> A fervent attack against the established order of capitalism and private property, the publication of <i>What Is Property?</i> almost immediately led to Proudhon’s official prosecution and the revocation of Proudhon’s scholarship by the Academy of Besançon. (Proudhon, an autodidact of humble origins who began his working life as a printer, relied on the scholarship for financial support.) Proudhon evaded the worst of the consequences thanks to the intervention of the economist Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, to whom the second memoir...