Pierre Joseph Proudhon, n.Definitions

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (n.) dreamed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠up the enormity of interest-free credit, wanting commodity production to continue while money was abolished.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (n.) saw ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the Bank's swollen powers the moment for it to shed its snakeskin and become a people's bank — a glance across the Channel would have shown him a very normal bourgeois event.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (n.) offers ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠selling at cost as the socialist secret — which does not abolish surplus labour but only hands the worker's unpaid hours to the buyer instead of the manufacturer.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (n.) abolishes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠economic estrangement within economic estrangement: his 'equal possession' is still an estranged, economic way of saying that a thing which exists for me is at the same time my relation to other people.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (n.) never ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠penetrated how a hat-maker can sell at value and still profit — so he blamed interest for the worker's inability to buy back his product.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (n.) took ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the human semblance of economic relations seriously, and so forced them either to become what they pretend to be or to confess their real inhumanity.