Chapter 1

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CHAP. I. PRECURSORS AND EARLY HISTORY 3

Forerunners and Early History -- Definitions -- Is Anarchism a Pathological Phenomenon? -- Anarchism Considered Sociologically --Anarchist Movements in the Middle Ages -- The Theory of the Social Contract with Reference to Anarchism -- Anarchist Movements during the French Revolution -- The Philosophic Premises of the Anarchist Theory -- The Political and Economic Assumptions of Anarchism.

II. PIERRE JOSEPH PROUDHON 32

Biography -- His Philosophic Standpoint -- His Early Writings -- The "Contradictions of Political Economy" -- Proudhon's Federation -- His Economic Views -- His Theory of Property -- Collectivism and Mutualism -- Attempts to Put his Views into Practice -- Proudhon's Last Writings -- Criticism.

III. MAX STIRNER AND THE GERMAN PROUDHONISTS 100

Germany in 1830-40 and France -- Stirner and Proudhon -- Biography of Stirner -- _The Individual and his Property_ (_Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum_) -- The Union of Egoists -- The Philosophic Contradiction of the _Einziger_ -- Stirner's Practical Error -- Julius Faucher -- Moses Hess -- Karl Grün -- Wilhelm Marr.