He thinks there is an ever-flowing current of human affairs toward the worse
Who is John Stuart Mill?
This place is mentioned by Marx and Engels in the first sentence of The Communist Manifesto
What is 'Europe'?
“A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectreof communism”
The three degrees of sociability in Proudhon are 1) sociability, 2) ____________, and 3) social proportionality.
What is justice?
This theorist was born in present-day Switzerland
Who was Constant?
JS Mill's dad was a follower of this utilitarian philosopher
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
Constant says it involves active and constant participation in political power
What is ancient liberty?
Proletarians have nothing to lose by their chains, but what do they have to win?
What is ‘a world’. [“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”]
Kropotkin says that the failure of capitalism is continuous ______________.
What is ‘underproduction’?
This theorist was notoriously bad with money
Who was Marx?
Constant blames two thinkers for the terror, de Mably and _________
Who is Rousseau?
Tocqueville's worry that base self-interest will lead people to welcome a tyrant
What is democratic despotism (or soft despotism)?
In a perfect political state man "acts as a private individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means, and becomes the plaything of ____________.
What are 'alien powers'?
If humans had talent & knowledge but no reason, Proudhon says they’d be like these creatures
What are bees?
This theorist had a crisis in his mental history
Who was Mill?
Wrote “The Ability of Present-Day Jews and Christians to Become Free”
Who is Bruno Bauer?
Mill saw two kinds of competence, Moral and _____________.
What is 'Instrumental'?
In Marxist jargon, exploitation involves the extraction of ________ value
What is surplus?
In explaining property, Proudhon makes much of the translation of this word
What is ‘robber’?
This theorist was also a geographer
Who was Kropotkin?
Our travelling magistrate's buddy
Who is Gustave de Beaumont?
The kind of interest that would seek class legislation
What is a sinister interest?
Capitalism increases exploitation and increases class divisions as part of its _____________ dialectic
What are gravediggers
What Whitechapel criminal does Kropotkin invoke to show that police do not keep us safe?
Who is Jack the Ripper?
This theorist punched a fellow parliamentarian in the face
Who was Proudhon?
He believes 'the Owl of Minerva only flies at dusk'
Who is Hegel?