Download or read book General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century written by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and published by M.S.G. Haskell House Publishers. This book was released on 1923 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This influential 1851 work was written by the French libertarian socialist and journalist whose doctrines later formed the basis for radical and anarchist theory. This is his vision of an ideal society, in which frontiers are abolished, national states eliminated, and authority decentralized among communes or locality associations, with free contracts replacing laws.