System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery

Scanned with OmniPage Professional OCR software donated by Caere Corporation, 1-800-535-7226. Contact Mike Lough <Mikel@caere.com> THE EVOLUTION OF CAPITALISM SYSTEM OF ECONOMICAL CONTRADICTIONS OR, THE PHILOSOPHY OF MISERY. BY P. J. PROUDHON Destruam et aedificabo. Deuteronomy: c. 32. VOLUME FIRST. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. OF THE ECONOMIC SCIENCE % 1. Opposition between FACT and RIGHT in Social Economy % 2. Inadequacy of Theories and Criticisms CHAPTER II. OF VALUE % 1. Opposition of Value in USE and Value in EXCHANGE % 2. Constitution of Value; Definition of Wealth % 3. Application of the Law of Proportionality of Values CHAPTER III. ECONOMIC EVOLUTIONS.--FIRST PERIOD.--THE DIVISION OF LABOR % 1. Antagonistic Effects of the Principle of Division % 2. Impotence of Palliatives.--MM. Blanqui, Chevalier, Dunoyer, Rossi, and Passy CHAPTER IV. SECOND PERIOD.--MACHINERY % 1. Of the Function of Machinery in its Relations to Liberty % 2. Machinery's Contradiction.--Origin of Capital and Wages % 3. Of Preservatives against the Disastrous Influence of Machinery CHAPTER V. THIRD PERIOD.--COMPETITION % 1. Necessity of Competition % 2. Subversive Effects of Competition, and the Destruction of Liberty thereby % 3. Remedies against Competition CHAPTER VI. FOURTH PERIOD.--MONOPOLY % 1. Necessity of Monopoly % 2. The Disasters in Labor and the Perversion of Ideas caused by Monopoly CHAPTER VII. FIFTH PERIOD.--POLICE, OR TAXATION % 1. Synthetic Idea of the Tax. Point of Departure and Development of this Idea % 2. Antinomy of the Tax % 3. Disastrous and Inevitable Consequences of the Tax. (Provisions, Sumptuary Laws, Rural and Industrial Police, Patents,Trade-Marks, etc.) CHAPTER VIII. OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN AND OF GOD, UNDER THE LAW OF CONTRADICTION, OR A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDENCE % 1. The Culpability of Man.--Exposition of the Myth of the Fall % 2. Exposition of the Myth of Providence.…