Index

Action, human. See Individualism; Mankind

Agriculture

analogy to society, 35

Persian, 26

Antiquity. See Greece; Rome

Authority. See Government

Beggars, 11

Billaud-Varennes, Jean Nicolas, 38

Blanc, Louis

competition, 45

doctrine, 42–43

force of society, 47–48

labor, 42

law, 50–52

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 41

Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 25–26

Cabetists, 46–47

Capital

displacement, 2

Carlier, Pierre, 13

Carthage, 32

Charity, vii, 5, 17

See also Wealth, equality of; Welfare

Classical studies, 25, 26, 36, 37–38

Collectivism, 2–3

See also Government

Communism, 18

Competition

meaning, 45

results, 45

Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, 35–38

Constituent Assembly, 24

Conventionality, 37

Crete, 28

Defense

right of, 2–3, 37, 49–50

Democracy, vi, 43–44

Democrats, 43

Dictatorship, vii, 39–40

Disposition, fatal, 5, 37–38

Distribution, 33–34

Dole, 10–11

See also Welfare

Dupin, Charles, 13

Education

classical, 26, 38

controlled, 33

Greek, 26

liberty in, 44

free, 21–22

government-provided, 22, 48

Egypt, 25, 26, 27

Elections, 43–44

See also Voting

Employment

assigned, 26

See also Labor

Equality

of wealth, 11, 20, 29, 36

Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe

antiquity, 27–29

Telemachus, 27

Force

common or collective, 2–3

individual, 2–3

motive, of society, 40–43

See also Government; Law

Forced conformity, viii

Fourier, François Marie Charles, 41

Fourierists, 46

France

revolutions, 47

Fraternity

legally enforced, 16–17, 21–22

Fraud, 13–14

Freedom. See Liberty

French Revolution, 38

General welfare, 19

Government

American ideal of, v

corrupting education by, vi

democratic, 29, 43–44

education, 23, 48

force, 2–3

function, 38

monopoly, 45

morality, 39

motive force, 40–43

power, v, 47

public services, 10–11

purpose of, v

relaxed, 35

republican, 30, 39

responsibility and, 3, 47–48, 51

results, 28

stability, 31

virtue, 39

See also Communism, Socialism

Greece

education, 26

law, 26–27

republic, 29–30

Sparta, 32, 36, 38

Greed, 5

Happiness

of the governed, 28

History, 5

Humanity

lost, 19–20

Imports. See Trade

Individualism, 3

Industry, protected. See Protectionism

Jobs. See Employment

Justice

and injustice, distinction between, 7

generalized, 7

immutable, 49–50

intentions and, 17–18

law and, 3, 6, 49

reigning, 19

Labor

displaced, 4

Land. See Property

Law

Cretan, 28

defined, 2, 16

Egyptian, 25–26, 27–28

fraternity and, 17

functions, 16, 31–33, 49–50

Greek, 26, 28–29

justice and, 3–4, 16, 51

morality and, 7, 21

motive force, 25

object of, 19

omnipotence, 44, 49

Persian, 26

perverted, v, 1, 5

philanthropic, 17

plunder and, 5, 13

posterior and inferior, 2–3

respect for, 7–9

Rousseau’s views, 31–33, 38

spirit of, 32

study of, 25

United States, 12

See also Legislation

Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de,

fraternity, 17

government power, 48–49

Lawgiver, 38, 43

Legislation

conflict in, 32

monopoly on, 5

struggle for control of, 11–12

universal right of, 7

See also Law

Legislator. See Lawgiver; Politicians

Lepéletier, Louis Michel de Saint-Fargeau, 39

Liberty

competition and, 44–45

defined, 42

denied, 44–45

described, 53

education and, 44–45

individual, 3

as power, 43

returned to, 55

seeking, 38

Life

faculties of, 1

Louis XIV, 27

Lycurgus

government, 30, 35–36

influence, 33, 40

Mably, Abbé Gabriel Bonnot de, 35, 39

Mankind

assimilation, 2

concern for, 54

degraded, 25

divided, 23

inert, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 35–36, 38–39, 42–43, 44, 47

inertia, 44

as machine, 31

nature of, 33

violation of, 52

Melun, Armand de, 52

Mentor, 28–29

Mimerel de Roubaix, Pierre Auguste

Remi, 52

Monopoly, 5, 45

Montalembert, Charles, Comte de, 13, 15

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de, 29–31

Morality

law and, 21–22

Morelly, 41

Napoleon, 41

Natural rights, v

Nature, gifts of, 1

Oliver de Serres, Guillaume Antoine, 29

Order, 3

Owen, Robert, 41

Ownership. See Property

Paraguay, 30

Persia, 26

Personality, 2

Phalansteries, 55

Philanthropy. See Charity

Plato

republic, 30

Plunder

absence of, 16

burdens of, 5–6

defined, 17

general welfare and, 19

extralegal, 13

kinds, 13

legal, v–ix, 6, 13, 22

organized, 14

origin of, 6

partial, 15–16

socialistic, 13

universal, 15, 16

Politicians

dreams of, 36

genius of, 30

goodness of, 25

importance of, 22–23

responsibility of, 27

social engineers, 22–24, 32–34, 37, 38–40, 42, 44–45

superior, 46, 54

Politics

exaggerated importance of, 8

and favors, vi

plunder through, vi

Poor relief. See Charity; Welfare

Power. See Government

Property

man and, 2

origin of, 5

Protectionism, 18

United States, 12

Proudhonians, 46

Providence, 55

Public relief, 10, 20, 29

Raynal, Abbé Guillaume, 33–35

Religion, State, 22

Rent seeking, vi, vii

Republic

kinds of, 29

virtues of, 39

Revolt, 6

Revolution, 47

French, 38

Rhodes, 32

Rights

individual, v, 2–3

Roberspierre, Jean Jacques

government, 38

lawgiver, 40

Rome

virtue, 32

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

disciples, 8–9

on the lawgiver, 31–33

Saint-Cricq, Barthélemy, Pierre Laurent, Comte de, 50

Saint-Just, Louis Antoine Léon de, 38

Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, Comte de

doctrine, 41

Salentum, 27, 29

Security

consequences, 3

Self-defense, 2, 37, 49–50

Selfishness, 5

Serres, Oliver de, 29

Slavery,

United States, viii, 12

universality, 5

Socialism

confused, ix, 22

defined, 14–15

disguised, 22

experiments, 23–24

legal plunder, 13

sincerely believed, 18

social engineers, 22–24

refutation of, 15

Socialists, vii

Society

enlightened, 37

experiments, 23

motive force, 40–43

object of, 36–37

parable of the traveler, 54–55

Solon, 33, 35

Sparta, 32, 36

Spoliation. See Plunder

State. See Government

Suffrage. See Universal suffrage

Tariffs, vi, viii

Telemachus, 27

Terror

as means of republican government, 39–40

Theirs, Louis Adolphe

doctrine, 52

education, 45

Tyre, 32

United States, viii, 12

Declaration of Independence, v

Universal suffrage

demand for, 9, 43–44, 46, 47

importance of, 10

incapacity and, 9

objections, 9

Vaucanson, Jacques de, 54

Vested interests, 13–14

Virtue and vice, 28, 30, 35, 36, 40

Voting

responsibility and, 9–10

right of, 10

See also Universal suffrage

Want satisfaction, 4

Wealth

equality of, 11, 21, 29, 36

transfer of, vii

Welfare, 10, 20, 28