Long 19th c. · 1809–1865
Who did Pierre-Joseph Proudhon influence?
Students and legacy
First to call himself anarchist: property is theft, order lives in mutualist contracts.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon influenced Mikhail Bakunin. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a printer from Besançon who taught himself Latin, was the first person known to call himself an anarchist and founded the philosophy of mutualism. His first major book, What Is Property? (1840), contains his best-known line: "property is theft!"
The book drew Marx into correspondence with him, but their friendship ended when Marx answered Proudhon's Philosophy of Poverty with The Poverty of Philosophy, a quarrel that fed the later split between anarchists and Marxists. Proudhon favoured workers' associations and cooperatives over both private and state ownership, believed social revolution could be peaceful, and after 1848, when he sat in parliament, called himself a federalist.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Pierre-Joseph Proudhon influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
- Mikhail Bakunin 1814–1876
Two steps away from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The second generation
- Through Mikhail Bakunin: Peter Kropotkin
Contemporaries of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, with no direct line between them.
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882
- Harriet Taylor Mill 1807–1858
- John Stuart Mill 1806–1873
- Max Stirner 1806–1856
- Alexander Herzen 1812–1870
- Ivan Kireyevsky 1806–1856
- Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855
- Alexis de Tocqueville 1805–1859
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 2
- Wikipedia languages
- 76 — #21 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Who influenced Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
- Who did Pierre-Joseph Proudhon influence?
- Mikhail Bakunin.
- When did Pierre-Joseph Proudhon live?
- 1809–1865. The map files Pierre-Joseph Proudhon under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Pierre-Joseph Proudhon card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 76 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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