The primary full-scale English-language account
of the unmistakable nineteenth century social scholar and "father of
rebellion." "Woodcock makes an excellent case for the consistency of
[Proudhon's] educating."- - New York Times¶"Essential perusing for a
genuine energy about monetary history and thought."
Proudhon has been known as the dad of rebellion,
and he achieved a specific reputation during the nineteenth century for such
aphoristic proclamations as "property is burglary" and "God is
insidious." But Proudhon was significantly more than rationalist and
scholarly heathen. His impact in France was enormous, and his hypotheses had an
extraordinary influence in the First International and the Paris Commune, in
French syndicalism and in contemporary developments for cash change. As an essayist
he was appreciated by Baudelaire, Saint-Beuve, and Victor Hugo; as a scholar he
was regarded by Tolstoy, Amiel, and Madame d'Agoult. Marx knew him, and it was
around the contention of these two in number characters that the influences
among libertarian and dictator communism, created in the main universal, was
solidified.
Proudhon's centrality likewise ventures forward
into our own day, when his doubt of the State and his educating of the
requirement for world alliance take on another significance in a world that is
undermined by hazardous competitions of incredible nationalistic States.
George Woodcock is one of Canada's most
recognized men of letter- - columnist, writer, and writer of in excess of forty
books, among them Ghandi; Dawn and Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley;
Canada and Canadians;and The Crystal Spirit, a memoir of George Orwell. In
1951-52, he held a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, under which research for
the present book was completed.
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