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Abstract: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is generally regarded to be one of the founders of anarchism. Anarchism as a political current is most often characterized by its values and attitudes, but the research into it seldom considers how these values and attitudes are connected to the modes of thinking and argumentation of its most prominent representatives. Proudhon is a good example of this. His extensive and varied body of work illustrates the connection between the emancipatory ideals of anarchism and the complexity and polysemy of the non-authoritarian way of thinking. The article attempts to demonstrate his methods of thinking with several examples that treat such basic themes of his work as the question of justice, the problem of property, mutual support (i.e. mutualism) and the political organization of society along federated lines. The article also points to the ambiguous acceptance of Proudhon’s work by individual anarchist currents and also to certain limits to his way of thinking that result from his acceptance of certain problematic starting points. |
