DVM2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Meritocracy
20 Aug 2016
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He says communism does have property, but it is not privately owned. Suggests that in this type of system (capitalism), everyone is a loser. Essentially communism is not a meritocracy: if you work super hard and are doing much more, you have merely excelled in your efforts. It is hard to nd a true meritocracy in the world. Is this really the ideal state we want to live in: someone can do nothing and be rewarded for the same as someone who made the effort. Similar to tristan, proudhon doesn"t appreciate that in the get go, someone automatically has much more opportunity. Works in leon france water transportation: encounters a sec. Ararchism: no heirachy: you take a decision by concensus, listen to peoples ideas, ideas of anarchism are somewhat universal. Met flourence ?? and marx in his life. In 1846 he objected to marx"s authoritian ideas: called them the philosophy of poverty, marx attacked proudhon in a book in 1847.
