What Is Property?
- Year
- 1840
- Field
- Politics
- Licence
- Public domain (Project Gutenberg, US)
- Source
- gutenberg
- Length
- about 153,195 words in 34 sections
Opening preview
The first paragraphs of "CHAPTER IV. · THAT PROPERTY IS IMPOSSIBLE · DEMONSTRATION. AXIOM.". Read the full section
Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
FIRST PROPOSITION. Property is Impossible, because it demands Something for Nothing.
SECOND PROPOSITION. Property is Impossible, because, wherever it exists, Production costs more than it is worth.
Contents
- Part 1 · 7 words
- AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLE OF RIGHT AND OF GOVERNMENT · 4 words
- CONTENTS. · P. J. PROUDHON: HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS · PREFACE · FIRST MEMOIR · CHAPTER I. · METHOD PURSUED IN THIS WORK.--THE IDEA OF A REVOLUTION · CHAPTER II. · 40 words
- CHAPTER III. · 88 words
- CHAPTER IV. · THAT PROPERTY IS IMPOSSIBLE · DEMONSTRATION. AXIOM. · 198 words
- PART 1. · 62 words
- SECOND MEMOIR LETTER TO M. BLANQUI ON PROPERTY · P. J. PROUDHON: HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS. · 10,443 words
- J. A. LANGLOIS. · PREFACE. · 3,718 words
- AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLE OF RIGHT AND OF GOVERNMENT. · FIRST MEMOIR. · 16 words
- CHAPTER I. METHOD PURSUED IN THIS WORK.--THE IDEA OF A REVOLUTION. · 9,303 words
- CHAPTER II. PROPERTY CONSIDERED AS A NATURAL RIGHT · 12,947 words
- ALL HAVE AN EQUAL RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY. · 105 words
- CHAPTER III. LABOR AS THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF THE DOMAIN OF PROPERTY. · 20,705 words
- CHAPTER IV. THAT PROPERTY IS IMPOSSIBLE. · 575 words
- PROPERTY IS PHYSICALLY AND MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. · DEMONSTRATION. · 1,737 words
- FIRST PROPOSITION. · 2,717 words
- SECOND PROPOSITION. · 1,307 words
- THIRD PROPOSITION. · 1,343 words
- FOURTH PROPOSITION. · 1,980 words
- FIFTH PROPOSITION. · 3,570 words
- APPENDIX TO THE FIFTH PROPOSITION. · 3,369 words
- SIXTH PROPOSITION. · 696 words
- SEVENTH PROPOSITION. · 1,830 words
- EIGHTH PROPOSITION. · 659 words
- NINTH PROPOSITION. · 1,381 words
- TENTH PROPOSITION. · 380 words
- CHAPTER V. PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPOSITION OF THE IDEA OF JUSTICE · 113 words
- PART FIRST. · 7,930 words
- PART SECOND. · 10,780 words
- END OF FIRST MEMOIR. · 5 words
- A LETTER TO M. BLANQUI. · SECOND MEMOIR. · 4 words
- MONSIEUR,-- · 49,322 words
- P. J. PROUDHON, · 85 words
- FOOTNOTES: · 5,776 words
