Proudhon, Pierre Joseph. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
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Header

Front Matter

Introduction

• Section
  • Section 0.1 I.
  • Section 0.2 II.
  • Section 0.3 III.
• Chapter 1 CHAPTER I. OF THE ECONOMIC SCIENCE.
  • Section 1.1 1. — Opposition between FACT and RIGHT in social economy.
  • Section 1.2 2. — Inadequacy of theories and criticisms.
• Chapter 2 CHAPTER II. OF VALUE.
  • Section 2.1 1. — Opposition of value in USE and value in EXCHANGE.
  • Section 2.2 2. — Constitution of value; definition of wealth.
  • Section 2.3 3. — Application of the law of proportionality of values.
• Chapter 3 CHAPTER III. ECONOMIC EVOLUTIONS. — FIRST PERIOD. — THE DIVISION OF LABOR.
  • Intro
  • Section 3.1 1. — Antagonistic effects of the principle of division.
  • Section 3.2 2. — Impotence of palliatives. — MM. Blanqui, Chevalier, Dunoyer, Rossi, and Passy.
• Chapter 4 CHAPTER IV. SECOND PERIOD. — MACHINERY.
  • Intro
  • Section 4.1 1. — Of the function of machinery in its relations to liberty.
  • Section 4.2 2. — Machinery's contradiction. — Origin of capital and wages.
  • Section 4.3 3. — Of preservatives against the disastrous influence of machinery.
• Chapter 5 CHAPTER V. THIRD PERIOD. — COMPETITION.
  • Intro
  • Section 5.1 1. — Necessity of competition.
  • Section 5.2 2. — Subversive effects of competition, and the destruction of liberty thereby.
  • Section 5.3 3. — Remedies against competition.
• Chapter 6 CHAPTER VI.
  • Intro FOURTH PERIOD. — MONOPOLY
  • Section 6.1 1. — Necessity of monopoly.
  • Section 6.2 2. — The disasters in labor and the perversion of ideas caused by monopoly.
• Chapter 7 CHAPTER VII. FIFTH PERIOD. — POLICE, OR TAXATION.
  • Intro
  • Section 7.1 1. — Synthetic idea of the tax. — Point of departure and development of this idea.
  • Section 7.2 2. — 2. — Antinomy of the tax.
  • Section 7.3 3. — Disastrous and inevitable consequences of the tax. (Provisions, sumptuary laws, rural and industrial police, patents, trade-marks, etc.)
• Chapter 8 CHAPTER VIII. OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN AND OF GOD, UNDER THE LAW OF CONTRADICTION, OR A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDENCE.
  • Intro
  • Section 8.1 1. — The culpability of man. — Exposition of the myth of the fall.
  • Section 8.2 2. — Exposition of the myth of Providence. — Retrogression of God.