capitalist-proprietors

Updated: July 4, 2026

Then let them be protected themselves against any demands for increased wages on the part of the workmen; let the law concerning joint-stock companies be reenacted; let the sale of shares be prohibited; and when all these measures shall have been taken, as the capitalist-proprietors of the basin cannot justly be forced to lose capital invested under a different condition of things, let them be indemnified.

P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon - System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery