Proudhon: guerra, anarquia, revolução

Abstract

Genealogies, as Michel Foucault points out, are aimed at the resumption of knowledge subjected by the forces in struggle throughout history. They provoke irruptions against the sovereign theoretical structures, in order to potentiate, through discontinuous and scattered analyses, clashes against the hierarchizations coming from the centralization of sciences. The present dissertation, entitled Proudhon: war, anarchy, revolution, aims to bring out Proudhon considerations around federalist practices and permanent revolution, affirming the combat strength of dispersed analyses over sovereign theoretical models. In What is Property? or Research on the Principle of Law and Government, by affirming the potency of anarchy in the face of the regimes of community and property, Proudhon distances himself diametrically from the notions defended by the contractualist literature, which starts from the understanding according to which the anarchic scenario is a constitutive part of the so-called state of nature. In addition, unlike many tendencies linked to socialism and anarchism, Proudhon does not conceive of revolution in teleological and totalizing terms, but as direct actions aimed at the subversion of customs in the here and now, within a permanent war, in order to invent new paths and affirm other forms of life. To take up again these author's perspectives, therefore, means to tear apart the cult of authority of the State, of capital, and of ideas with pacifying pretensions, emphasizing that life is marked by battles that do not end. It is a small war crossed by clashes between perspectives, truths, and interests, in which the series freedom and authority are in permanent tension