# M. Ch. Comte — What Is Property? character guide

> M. Ch. Comte in What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Comte, M. Ch

**First appearance:** 0002-what-is-property

## Who they are

Liberal economist whose work on property is cited.

## In the story

### [§ 1: The Land Cannot Be Appropriated](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_property_se/chapters/1-the-land-cannot-be-appropriated)

Cited for his Treatise on Property; Proudhon uses and critiques his reasoning about limited resources.

### [§ 4: Labor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_property_se/chapters/4-labor)

Proudhon critiques Comte's Treatise on Property, arguing that his assumption of national property is a logical fallacy and that his defense of land sales leads to dispossession of the people.

### [§ 5: That Labor Leads to Equality of Property](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_property_se/chapters/5-that-labor-leads-to-equality-of-property)

Quoted as an authority who inadvertently supports Proudhon's argument by stating that laborers increase value but are only paid wages.

### [§ 1 Of the Moral Sense in Man and the Animals](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_property_se/chapters/part-i-1)

Cited for his statement that 'Justice is public utility' and his Treatise on Legislation, though Proudhon notes the tautology.

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