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While his intellectual heirs accepted Communism, Proudhon, the true father of anarchism, totally rejected it. To him, capitalism and Communism were co-evils:
Communism is inequality, but not as property is.
Property is the exploitation of the weak by the
strong. Communism is the exploitation of the
Proudhon discerned that both Communism and capitalism were unacceptable; neither system allowed the individual to reach out to their fullest extent. In either scheme there was a concentrated effort of domination. The capitalists took advantage of the idea of property; the Communists took advantage of the aggressive. Proudhon hoped anarchism would differ from both systems he saw as unacceptable.
Proudhon's ideas were similar to both Communism and capitalism (this is explainable because all three are European forms of economics). Proudhon's anarchistic society was to be built upon two bases: land and labor. There would be no private property in the anarchist society; only common, communal
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