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" "In a society like ours, to seek for literary glory seems to me an anachronism. Of what use is it to invoke an ancient sibyl when a muse is on the eve of birth? Pitiable actors in a tragedy nearing its end, that which it behooves us to do is to precipitate the catastrophe. The most deserving among us is he who plays best this part. Well, I no longer aspire to this sad success!
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [ˈpruːd.ɒn] in BrE, [pʁu.dɔ̃] in French) (15 January 1809 – 19 January 1865) was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist," and the first documented as using the word "Capitalist" to mean property-owner.
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We are told of the time when, with the same beliefs, with the same institutions, all the world seemed happy: why complain of these beliefs; why banish these institutions? We are slow to admit that that happy age served the precise purpose of developing the principle of evil which lay dormant in society; we accuse men and gods, the powers of earth and the forces of Nature. Instead of seeking the cause of the evil in his mind and heart, man blames his masters, his rivals, his neighbors, and himself; nations arm themselves, and slay and exterminate each other, until equilibrium is restored by the vast depopulation, and peace again arises from the ashes of the combatants. So loath is humanity to touch the customs of its ancestors, and to change the laws framed by the founders of communities, and confirmed by the faithful observance of the ages.
¨La igualdad de condiciones no han existido jamas, merced a nuestras pasiones y nuestra ignorancia, pero nuestra oposición a esta ley demuestra mas y mas su necesidad; La historia es un constante testimonio de ello. La sociedad avanza de ecuación en ecuación; Las revoluciones de los imperios ofrecen a los ojos del observador economista que los números son la providencia de la historia. El Progreso de la humanidad ha contado con un sinnúmero de causas ocultas que conmueven a los pueblos, pero no hay una tan potente, regular, ni mas significativa que las explosiones periódicas del proletariado contra la propiedad, actuando simultáneamente por la eliminación y la ocupación a medida que la población se multiplica. Ha sido el principio generador y la causa determinante de todas las revoluciones. Las guerras de religión y de conquista, cuando no llegaron a la exterminación de las razas, fueron solamente perturbaciones accidentales, cuyo inmediato restablecimiento procuró el progreso natural de la vida de los pueblos. Este es el poder de acumulación de la propiedad, esta es la ley de degradación y muerte de propiedades¨.
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