Proudhon - the biggest misogynist of the 19 Century is celebrated read with surprise in these days everywhere lobhudelnde Articles about the French anti-feminists and socialists Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, on the occasion of his 200th Birthday. For example, here in the taz
http://www.taz.de/1/leben/koepfe/artikel/1/der-anarchistische-kleinbuerger/ or in the monde diplomatique
http://www.monde-diplomatique .fr/2009/01/CASTLETON/16666 (unfortunately in the net only to have French).
There will be so terse sentences like the one that the anti-feminist positions Proudhon "many socialists of the 19th Century would find. " Not true. Proudhon was an extreme anti-feminists, and in his contempt for women much more radical than any other thinker of his time whether bourgeois or socialist.
In his book "De la Justice" in 1858 he solved a storm of protest among French feminists and a flood of anti-Proudhonist books. In his posthumously published in 1875 diatribe 'La ou les femmes dans les Pornocratie temps modern "times after he lay still and defended his anti-feminism explicitly against the trend of the times.
Proudhonism resulted in the French labor movement, first to the exclusion of women from their organizations, which was only lifted after the Proudhonism had lost their influence. Proudhon was in its time by no means an anarchist. For example, Bakunin and his adherents first dissociating the International Proudhonist because of their orientation towards left (they were of the equality of the sexes). Only Kropotkin Proudhon has included in the lineage of anarchism, and since then it writes off one from the other.
So it's not as if it were a contempt for women Proudhon was understandable and negligible secondary aspect of his thought in the circumstances of the time out, but he was a central point. Proudhon was the main demand elaborate such as a ban on female employment and the idea that women would have in the household and raising children the man. This was not easy, "then just like that," but a dedicated counter-position to other movements of the labor movement, which favored the integration of women into paid work and the social-revolutionary struggle. This dispute between Proudhon and others took on the role of women in the first two congresses of the international is a major part of the debates.
When am I reading these postings, I must say that the labor movement in their awareness of the importance of gender difference for the revolutionary movement was theoretically higher already at a level the so-called "left" thinkers, was today, 150 years later. Pretty sad is not it?
Who wants to know more: I have a text the network on "feminism and anti-feminism in the early labor movement"
http://www.antjeschrupp.de/studienvereinigung.htm
