19th Century · English
System of Economical Contradictions: or, The Philosophy of Poverty
System of Economical Contradictions: or, The Philosophy of Poverty (1847), by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Translated by Benjamin R. Tucker. From the Marxists Internet Archive.
Chapters
- 01Introductionprose
- 021. Opposition between FACT and RIGHT in social economy.prose
- 032. Inadequacy of theories and criticisms.prose
- 041. Opposition of value in USE and value in EXCHANGE.prose
- 052. Constitution of value; definition of wealth.prose
- 063. Application of the law of proportionality of values.prose
- 07Chapter Economic Evolutions. — First Period. — The Division of Labor.prose
- 081. Antagonistic effects of the principle of division.prose
- 092. Impotence of palliatives. — MM. Blanqui, Chevalier, Dunoyer, Rossi, and Passy.prose
- 10Chapter IV. Second Period. — Machinery.prose
- 111. Of the function of machinery in its relations to liberty.prose
- 122. Machinery's contradiction. — Origin of capital and wages.prose
- 133. Of preservatives against the disastrous influence of machinery.prose
- 14Chapter Vprose
- 15Chapter VI. Fourth Period. — Monopolyprose
- 161. Necessity of monopoly.prose
- 172. The disasters in labor and the perversion of ideas caused by monopoly.prose
- 18Chapter VII. Fifth Period. — Police, Or Taxation.prose
- 191. Synthetic idea of the tax. — Point of departure and development of this idea.prose
- 202. Antinomy of the tax.prose
- 213. Disastrous and inevitable consequences of the tax. (Provisions, sumptuary laws, rural and industrial police, patentprose
- 22Chapter VIII. Of the Responsibility of Man and Of God, Under the Law of Contradiction, Or a Solution of the Problem of Pprose
- 231. The culpability of man. — Exposition of the myth of the fall.prose
- 242. Exposition of the myth of Providence. — Retrogression of God.prose