Mertcan Bulak
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After waging war against the abuses of property for most of his life, Proudhon concluded that it had qualities inherent in its nature of the greatest value. Above all, it was ‘liberal, federalist, decentralizing, republican, egalitarian, progressive, just’. In the supreme irony of his complex life, the man who had once boldly declared that ‘Property is Theft’ came to see private property as the greatest bastion against State tyranny.
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Proudhon declares that not only must we begin by ‘seeing things as they really are’ but the task of the artist is to portray us ‘as we really are’. Ironically, this doctrine became the basis for the Soviet notion of socialist realism in art, while anarchism made a much stronger impact on avant-garde artists in the Dadaist and Surrealist movements of the early twentieth century.
To make matters worse, in an unpublished Treatise on Political Economy (1849–55) Proudhon even contemplated a secret band of vigilantes to enforce public opinion. This puritanical elite would ensure that the individual conscience would be taught to identify with the social conscience for the sake of social survival. The vigilantes would be involved in the private execution of the wicked as well as punishing treason and adultery. Proudhon here reached his lowest ebb.
The propositions that the universe is founded on the laws of justice and that justice is organized in accordance with the laws of the universe are therefore present ‘in the human soul not only as ideas or concepts but as emotions or feelings’. In addition, Proudhon believed intrinsic values are not means to an end, but ends in themselves.
Democratic government is a contradiction, for the people can never be truly consulted or represented. It cannot express the will of constituents who vote for it and remain powerless between elections. Universal suffrage is thus a real lottery, ensuring the triumph of mediocrity and the tyranny of the majority.