Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French socialist, politician, philosopher, economist and the founder of mutualist philosophy. He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist, using that term, and is widely regarded as one of

Anarchism
Proudhon was the first person to refer to himself as an "anarchist". Proudhon's anarchist mutualism is considered as a middle way or synthesis between individualist anarchism and social anarchism.

• Cost the limit of price
• Left-wing market anarchism
• Market socialism

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Early life and education
Proudhon was born in Besançon, France, on 15 January 1809 at 23 Rue du Petit Battant in the suburb of Battant. His father Claude-François Proudhon, who worked as a brewer and a cooper, was originally from the village of

Proto-fascism
Although long considered a founding father of anarchism and part of the French Left,

• Qu'est ce que la propriété? (What Is Property?, 1840)
• Avertissement aux Propriétaires (Warning to Proprietors, 1842)
• Système des contradictions économiques ou Philosophie de la misère (The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of