Max Stirner on Nostr: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first person to explicitly call himself an ...
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first person to explicitly call himself an “anarchist.” In his 1840 book What Is Property?, he declared the famous line: “Property is theft,” but he also later wrote “Property is liberty,” showing that he distinguished between exploitative property (like rent and monopoly privilege) and personal possession rooted in use and labor.
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