What Is Property? · Character

M. Blanqui

The audacious economist to whom Proudhon addresses his second memoir, a sparring partner in the great debate over labor, capital, and ownership.

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Also known as Blanqui, M. Blanqui Paris, the audacious M. Blanqui

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Mentioned as viewing Proudhon as a philosopher and savant during his acquittal.

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Blanqui is the addressee of Proudhon's second memoir, which makes him a direct interlocutor rather than a distant authority. As an economist, he embodies the discipline that Proudhon both uses and attacks, and the exchange between them dramatizes the collision of moral outrage with statistical reasoning. His role in the early-middle arc is to keep the argument honest — forcing Proudhon to prove, not merely proclaim, that property is theft.

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