All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, As quoted in Crown’s Book of Political Quotations : Over 2500 Lively Quotes from Plato to Reagan (1982) by Michael Jackman, p. 160 (via myanarchistproseandpoetry)
Markets Not Capitalism
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“All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.”
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, ‘Du principe Fédératif [Principle of Federation] (1863)’
Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? (1840), Chapter IV (via myanarchistproseandpoetry)
