内容简介
WhatisProperty?isoneofthemostnotoriousandinfluentialworksofsocialcriticismofthenineteenthcenturyandcertainlythebest-knownbookbyPierre-JosephProudhon,revolutionaryauthorandcontemporaryofMarx.Proudhon’sshortanswertothisquestion“Propertyistheft”wasevenmorenotorious,linkingprivatepropertyasitdidwhththeworstfeaturesof“bourgeois”politicalhegemonyandexploitation.YetbecauseoftheeagernessoflateradmirerstoplaceProudhoninonelatertraditionoranother(socialist,utopian,anarchist,fascist,etc.)theintellectualqualitiesofhisbookhaveneverbeenfullyappreciated;norhashiscritiqueoftheinstitutionofnineteenth-centurypoliticalthoughtingeneral.Thisnewtranslation,withacriticalandhistoricalintroductiontotheseneglectedaspectsofProudhon’s"diabolicalwork"(ashecalledit),triestodojusticetotheworkofthissubversivecriticwhohimself,throughhisassaultonthecentralinstitutionofmodernWesternsociety,spenthiswholelifeinquestofsocialjustice.