Who are Owen and Prudhon?
[Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon were two early 19th century socialists who proposed their own theories of social reform.
Robert Owen (1771-1858) Robert Owen was an English industrialist and social reformer. He was deeply interested in improving the living conditions of workers and experimented with transforming his textile mill town New Lanark into an ideal community in terms of education, housing, and working conditions. Owen advocated the establishment of a community that shared interests and emphasized education with the goal of building a cooperative society. He was active in improving the rights of the working class and is considered one of the pioneers of the modern cooperative movement.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French thinker and political activist known for laying the theoretical foundations of anarchism. Proudhon was known for his famous phrase property is theft (“Property is theft”) and criticized capitalism and state power. He opposed the centralized state and authority and advocated a decentralized social organization based on mutual support, an economic system of autonomous cooperatives. Proudhon’s theories greatly influenced later anarchist thought and various streams of socialism.
Despite their different backgrounds, Owen and Proudhon worked toward a common goal of social reform. They each developed their own theories and practices aimed at improving workers’ rights, fairly reorganizing society, and improving people’s living conditions. These theories greatly influenced later socialism, anarchism, and the cooperative movement.
Per “decentralized social organization based on mutual aid, autonomous cooperatives.”Pluralityとの関連を感じた
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French socialist and anarchist. [He is considered the father of anarchism. The “Unionism” of his later years is still looked back on today as a warning against any centralized organization. [Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BC%E 3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3]
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