WTF, Proudhon?

[luzula]

FRTDNEATJ, I was browsing "What Is Property?", by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, an early 19th century socialist and anarchist (he's the one who said that property is theft). He's in the middle of a passage about equality and how you can only get a society of equals among members of the same species (not between man and animal, or between man and God), and then comes something hidden away in a little footnote:

Between woman and man there may exist love, passion, ties of custom, and the like; but there is no real society. Man and woman are not companions. The difference of the sexes places a barrier between them, like that placed between animals by a difference of race. Consequently, far from advocating what is now called the emancipation of woman, I should incline, rather, if there were no other alternative, to exclude her from society.

*boggles* Yeah, I don't even know what to say. Living in the 19th century is not an excuse--Emma Goldman would KICK his ASS.

Comments

[brigantine]

*snort* Spoken by a man who can't get a date. ;)

[luzula]

I suppose that's one theory (if, you know, they had dates back then)...