Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced in BrE, in French) (January 15, 1809 – January 19, 1865) was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist." Born in Besançon, Doubs, France, he was a workingman, a printer, who taught himself to read Latin so as to print books in that language as well. He is most famous for asserting "Property is theft", in his missive What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right of Government (original title: Qu'est-ce que la propriété? Recherche sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement), first published in 1840.

Anti-semitism

In Cesarisme et Christianisme {no page number provided) Proudhon states: "The Jew is by temperament an anti-producer, neither a farmer nor an industrial nor even a true merchant. He is an intermediary, always fraudulent and parasitic, who operates, in trade as in philosophy, by means of falsification, counterfeiting, horse-dealing. He knows but the rise and fall of prices, the risk of transport, the incertitude of crops, the hazard of demand and supply. His policy in economics has always been entirely negative, entirely usurious; it is the evil principle, Satan, Ahriman, incarnated in the race of Sem."

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