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System of Economical Contradictions or, The Philosophy of Misery

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

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THE
WORKS OF P. J. PROUDHON

VOLUME IV.
SYSTEM OF ECONOMICAL CONTRADICTIONS.
I.

Published and Sold by
BENJ. R. TUCKER, BOSTON, MASS.
1888

SYSTEM
OF
ECONOMICAL CONTRADICTIONS
OR,
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MISERY.

BY
P. J. PROUDHON

Destruam et ædificabo.
Deuteronomy: c. 32.

VOLUME FIRST.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY
BENJ. R. TUCKER

Published and Sold by
BENJ. R. TUCKER, BOSTON, MASS.
1888

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE

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