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the Chamber of Deputies> if he had reached the age of forty and paid 1,000 francs
in direct taxation. He was an active elector if he had
reached the age of thirty and paid 300 francs. :16 (Defaulting taxpayers had a mana
soldier?-quartered with them, whom they had to maintain until such time as
they had settled their debt.) [a19,3]
Proudhon on Hegel: I . "The antinomy is not resolved: here is the fundamental flaw
of all Hegelian philosophy. The two terms of which the antinomy is composed
balance out. . .. A balance is by no means a synthesis." "Let us not forget," adds
Cuvillier, "'that Proudhon was for a long time a bookkeeper." Elsewhere, ProudhOll
speaks of the ideas determining his own philosophy as "elementary ideas,
common to bookkeeping and metaphysics alike." Armand Cuvillier, ·'Marx et
Proudhon," A la Lumiere du marxisme, vol. 2 (Paris, 1937), pp. IBO-IB1.
[a19,4]
The following premise of Proudhon '5, claims Marx in Die heilige Familie , had
been previously advanced by the English economist Sadler in IB30. Proudhon
says: " "This immense power that results from the union and harmony of laborers,
from the convergence and simultaneity of their efforts, has not been recompensed
hy the capitalist.' Thus it is that 200 grenadiers succeeded, within several hours,
in raising the obelisk of Luxor on the Place de la Concorde, whereas a single man
working for 200 days would have obtained no result at all. "Separate t.he laborers
from one another, and the amount paid daily to each would perhaps exceed the
value of each individual product, but this is not. what is at issue here. A force of a
thousand men working over a period of twenty days has been paid what a single
man would earn in fifty-five years; hut this force of a thousand has produced, in
twenty days, what the power of a single man, multiplied across a million centuries,
could not achieve. Is there equity in the marketplace?'" Cited in Armand Cuvillier,
" Marx et Proudhon," A la, Lumiere du marxisme, vol. 2 (Paris, 1937)? p. 196.
[a19,51
Unlike Saint-Simon and Fourier, Proudhon was not interested in history. "The
history of property among ancient peoples is, for us, nothing more than a matter
of erudition and curiosity" (cited in Cuvillier, "Marx et Proudhon;' p. 201).
Conservatism bound up with a lack of historical sense is just as petty bourgeois
as conservatism bound up with historical sense is feudal. [a19a, 1]
Proudhon's apology for the coup d'etat: to he found in his letter to Louis Napoleon
of April 21, 1858, where it is said of the dynastic principle "'that this principle,
which before 'B9 was simply the incarnation, in one chosen family, of divine right
or religious thought, . .. is or can he defined today as . .. the incarnation, in one
chosen family, of human right or the rational thought of the revolution." Cited in
Armand Cuvillier, I . 'Marx et Proudhon," A la Lumiere du marxisme, vol. 2, part 1
(Paris, 1937), p. 219. [a19a,21