> people and founding a political community, should solemnly proclaim
> (Declaration of 1791) the justification of the egoistic man, man
> separated from his fellow men and from the community, and should
-> even repeat this prose lamation at a moment when only the most
-> heroic sacrifice can save the nation and hence is urgentity
+> even repeat this proclamation at a moment when only the most
+> heroic sacrifice can save the nation and hence is urgently
> required, when the sacrifice of all the interests of civil society
> is highly imperaive and egoism must be punished as crime
> (Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1793).
It does not precede it.
[][@:Lady]{.sig})
+## from _On Proudhon_{as=cite}[^DSD161718]
+
+{as=figure}
+::::::::::::::::::::::::::
+> But in spite of all his apparent iconoclasm one already finds in
+> _Qu’est-ce que la propriété_{as="cite" lang="fr"}? the
+> contradiction that Proudhon is
+> criticising society, on the one hand, from the standpoint and with
+> the eyes of a French small-holding peasant (later
+> _petit bourgeois_{as="i" lang="fr"})
+> and, on the other, that he measures it with the standards he
+> inherited from the socialists.
+>
+> The deficiency of the book is indicated by its very title.
+> The question is so badly formulated that it cannot be answered
+> correctly.
+> _Ancient “property relations”_ were superseded by _feudal_ property
+> relations and these by “_bourgeois_” property relations.
+> Thus history itself had expressed its criticism upon past
+> _property
+> relations_.
+> What Proudhon was actually dealing with was _modern bourgeois
+> property_ as it exists today.
+> The question of what this is could have only been answered by a
+> critical analysis of “_political economy_,” embracing the totality
+> of
+> these _property relations_, considering not their _legal_ aspect
+> as
+> _relations of volition_ but their real form, that is, as
+> _relations of
+> production_.
+> But as Proudhon entangled the whole of these economic relations in
+> the general legal concept of “_property_,”
+> “_la propriété_{as="i" lang="fr"},” he could
+> not get beyond the answer which, in a similar work published before
+> 1789, Brissot had already given in the same words: “_La propriété
+> c’est le vol._{as="i" lang="fr"}”
+>
+> The upshot is at best that the bourgeois legal conceptions of
+> “_theft_” apply equally well to the “_honest_” gains of the
+> bourgeois
+> himself.
+> On the other hand, since “_theft_” as a forcible violation of
+> property _presupposes the existence of property_, Proudhon
+> entangled
+> himself in all sorts of fantasies, obscure even to himself, about
+> _true bourgeois property_.
+{as=figcaption}
+:::::::::::::::
+“What is property?” is a bad question;
+Proudhon’s answer, “Property is theft!”, presupposes property.
+:::::::::::::::
+::::::::::::::::::::::::::
+
+When writing _Oppenheimer_{as="cite"}, Christopher Nolan apparently
+ believed that two people who have both ostensibly read the entirety
+ of _Capital_{as="cite"} would both attribute “Property is theft!” to
+ Marx.
+[][@:Aescling]{.sig}
+
[^Easton1967]:
Translated by Loyd D Easton and Kurt H Guddat, © 1967.
+
+[^DSD161718]:
+ From _Der Social-Demokrat_ Nos. 16, 17, and 18; as
+ [republished](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/letters/65_01_24.htm)
+ by Marxists.org