# M. Wolowski — What Is Property? character guide

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

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Wolowski

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

## Snapshot

The economist who takes up the gauntlet Proudhon throws down, contesting the claim that property is robbery with the tools of political economy.

## Who they are

Wolowski belongs to the class of critics who answer Proudhon's paradox with the sober language of economics, and his objections sharpen the book's central quarrel. He represents the respectable opinion that property is a civil right born of occupation and sanctioned by law, exactly the position Proudhon means to overturn. His pushback forces the reader to weigh the argument rather than simply recoil from the slogan.

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