After being brought to trial for his publication Warning to Proprietors, this man was acquited because the jury could not clearly understand the point he was trying to make.
After being brought to trial for his publication Warning to Proprietors, this man was acquited because the jury could not clearly understand the point he was trying to make. In homage to a secret society of weavers with whom he found refuge, he called his emergent social philosophy "mutualism," and while a prisoner published a tract entitled "The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century." This man was bitterly attacked by Marx in The Poverty of Philosophy, a move which split the Second International between Marxists and those who followed this man's disciple Bakunin. However, he is best known for a work in which he declared himself to be an anarchist and answered the titular question with the word "theft." For ten points, identify this Frenchman who advanced anarchism in 1840's What is Property?
After being brought to trial for his publication Warning to Proprietors, this man was acquited because the jury could not clearly understand the point he was trying to make.
Pierre-Joseph {Proudhon}