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Table of Contributors Table of Contents Return to Encyclopedia Home Page Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809-1865) Proudhon was from humble origins but had become a well-known French social theorist during the 1840s. A printer by trade, he was an exponent of mutualist socialism, a sociopolitical creed that may also be called anarchism. His most famous book was his second one, Qu'est-ce que la ...