Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's 1840 treatise, published in French, opening with the question of its own title and answering that property, meaning the legal right to draw rent, interest or profit from a holding without working it oneself, is theft, while possession earned through use and labor is legitimate. The book is generally credited as the founding statement of anarchism as a self-named political philosophy and of the mutualist tradition within it.
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1. What Is Property? (Wikipedia)
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His best-known assertion is that 'property is theft!', contained in his first major work, What Is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government
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