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Excerpt from Proudhon and His Bank of the People: Being a Defence of the Great FrenchWould to God that this hot and bloody struggle were over, and that Peace might come at last to the world I And yet I invoke no seeming peace that the weaker may ever anew be plundered, but a peace with Liberty, Equality, and honest man's and not robber's Order for its condition. What is the way to such a peace Through war and destruction, through such war as that at Rome, and that in Hungary, perhaps, too, show more through such as that of June, 1848, in Paris. The history of the past and the examples of the present instruct us that the privileged and powerful, by whatever name they are called, do not yield their privileges except as they are compelled. When will Russia lay aside the pretension to dictate darkness and despotism to Europe When she is compelled.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. show lessTags
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There are a lot of layers to this little book. It is a 1984 facsimile reprint (with an added introduction) of a 1896 edition by Benjamin R. Tucker, collecting a series of articles written by Charles A. Dana in 1849, when Proudhon was still alive. Anarchist Tucker was interested in raising public awareness of Proudhon's ideas, but even more intent to show up the hypocrisy of Dana, who had written on Proudhon in his Fourierist youth, before taking a more conservative political turn.
The basic economical and philosophical problems involved in the problem of financial credit are certainly as salient as ever, so the discussion that forms the precedent for all of this (in Proudhon's own work) is worth attention in the 21st century. For the show more 19th-century political elements, I was as impressed by the two pages of Tucker's publishing advertisements after the title page as much as anything else in the book! show less
The basic economical and philosophical problems involved in the problem of financial credit are certainly as salient as ever, so the discussion that forms the precedent for all of this (in Proudhon's own work) is worth attention in the 21st century. For the show more 19th-century political elements, I was as impressed by the two pages of Tucker's publishing advertisements after the title page as much as anything else in the book! show less
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