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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (UK:, US:, French: [pjɛʁ ʒɔzɛf pʁudɔ̃]; 15 January 1809, Besançon – 19 January 1865, Paris) is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". His background was as a French socialist, politician, philosopher, economist and the founder of mutualist philosophy. He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist, using that term, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist. Proudhon described the liberty he pursued as "the synthesis of community and property". Some consider his mutualism to be part of individualist anarchism while others regard it to be part of social anarchism.

Proudhon, who was born in Besançon, was a printer who taught himself Latin in order to better print books in the language. His best-known assertion is that "property is theft!", contained in his first major work, What Is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of R

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Proudhon - A Biography

Part One

THE HILLS OF THE JURA

H E old city o f Besanfon, whose streets o f grey stone houses
have changed little since the early days of the last century, lies
snugly held within a large U-shaped bend of the River Doubs.
Over the bridge at the base of the U is the seventeenth-century
suburb of Battant. It has always been a quarter o f working people.
N ow its grimy, scaling houses are inhabited mostly by workers in
the watch and artificial silk factories, but in the early nineteenth
century it was peopled, according to the local historian Lucien
Febvre, ‘by vine-growers, workmen and industrious, honest and
caustic petty landowners.’ In this half-rural faubourg, at 37 Rue
du Petit Battant, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was born on the 15 th
February, 1809.
His parents, who had married early in the preceding year, were
both of Franc-Comtois peasant stock. Claude-Franpois Proudhon
came from the mountain village o f Chasnans, close to the Swiss
frontier, and his wife, Catherine Simonin, from Cordiron, a hamlet
on the Ognon, whose valley runs par
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809–1865)
For the biography by George Woodcock, see Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Woodcock biography).
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (,^[1]; French:[pjɛʁʒozɛfpʁudɔ̃]; 15 January 1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism".^[2] He was the first person to call himself an anarchist,^[3]^[4] using that term, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist.^[5] Proudhon described the liberty he pursued as the synthesis of community and individualism. Some consider his mutualism to be part of individualist anarchism^[6]^[7] while others regard it to be part of social anarchism.^[8]^[9]^[10]
Proudhon, who was born in Besançon, was