Possibilities of Proudhonian social theory in the modern society, seen from Franche-Comte society

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25580018
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Saitama University
• Principal Investigator: MIURA Atsushi 埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 教授 (60261872)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: プルードン / フランシュ＝コンテ地方 / 労働所有論 / アソシエーション / 土地所有

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims at examining the social theory of French socialist Proudhon through comparison with the customary social practice of peasants in the socialist’s motherland, Franche-Comte. In fact, what Proudhon presented in his study on the property rights and the gratuitous credit was already in practice among these peasants in the first half of the 19th century, before the Proudhonien theorization. Furthermore, agriculture in Franche-Comte has been modernized through these ‘communitarian’ customs. Therefore, Proudhonien ideas are not something belonging to the past, but living in modern peasant economic strategies. Here, we find the possibility of the Proudhonien theory in the modern society.

Free Research Field

農村社会研究