Chapter II: Part I: Early Anarchism

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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 Gruen
-- Wilhelm Marr.