What Is Property? · Character
M. Troplong
The jurist whose learned commentaries on property Proudhon reads closely, hunting for the equivocation on which the whole legal edifice rests.
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Also known as Troplong, Monsieur Troplong
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Troplong stands among the legal authorities whose views on property Proudhon debates, treating their doctrines as serious arguments rather than straw men. Where Pothier thinks property, like royalty, exists by divine…
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This passage marks the dramatic climax because it reveals the terrifying logical endpoint of property's tyrann…
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