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12 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s Mutualist Social Science

from The Arrival of the Hostile Siblings: Marxism and Anarchism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

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Alex Prichard
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was born in Besançon, the capital of the Franche Comté region of France, on 15 January 1809. These were formative times for France and Europe. The Napoleonic wars were turning in favour of the Holy Alliance, and it was the beginning of the end of the First Republic. In 1814, a year before the fall of Napoleon, the Austrians laid siege to Besançon and, following the end of the war, the city was struck by successive waves of famine, compounding the Proudhon family’s poverty. Pierre-Joseph’s father was a cooper and taverner, who infamously refused to profit from his customers, and his mother was from a modest peasant background. These deprivations made completing a timely, formal education impossible.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 286 - 307
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Bouchet, Thomas, et al. (eds.), Quand les socialistes inventaient l’avenir, 1825–1860 (Paris: La Découverte, 2015).Google Scholar
Chambost, Anne-Sophie, Proudhon. L’Enfant terrible du socialisme (Paris: Armand Colin, 2009).Google Scholar
Haubtmann, Pierre, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Sa vie et sa pensée, 1809–1849 (Paris: Relié, 1982).Google Scholar
Haubtmann, Pierre, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Sa vie et sa pensée 1849–1865, 2 vols. (Paris: Relié, 1987).Google Scholar
Haubtmann, Pierre, Proudhon, Marx et la pensée allemande (Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1981).Google Scholar
Hoffman, Robert L., Revolutionary Justice: The Social and Political Theory of P.-J. Proudhon (London: University of Illinois Press, 1972).Google Scholar
Jennings, Jeremy, Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).Google Scholar
McKay, Ian (ed.), Property Is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology (Edinburgh: AK Press, 2011).Google Scholar
Woodcock, George, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: A Biography (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956).Google Scholar

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