# Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

> He coined the phrase "property is theft!" and became the first person to publicly claim the label anarchist — not as an insult but as a position. His 1840 pamphlet launched a political tradition and a lifelong argument with Marx.

*French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1809-01-15
- **Died:** 1865-01-19
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Besançon in 1809, Proudhon was a printer who taught himself Latin to set books he couldn't otherwise read. What Is Property?, published in 1840, caught the attention of both French authorities and Karl Marx, who began a correspondence that turned into a Paris friendship during Marx's exile. The friendship shattered when Marx answered Proudhon's The System of Economic Contradictions with The Poverty of Philosophy, a dispute that helped split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the International Working Men's Association. Elected to the French Parliament after the 1848 Revolution, Proudhon called himself a federalist and pushed for workers' councils, cooperatives, and a national bank offering interest-free loans funded by a tax on capitalists — an attempt that failed. He died in 1865, leaving a mutualist philosophy that splintered into individualist anarchism, collectivist anarchism, anarcho-communism, and anarcho-syndicalism.

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