Quixotic Radical

Revolutionary Justice: The Social and Political Theory of P.-J. Proudhon, by Robert L. Hoffman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 429 pp.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s intellectual bones have been claimed by such varied inheritors—anarchists and fascists, syndicalists and individualists, progressives and reactionaries—that it is nearly impossible to assess his influence. It is no less difficult to clarify and sort out what he really meant. Alternately illuminating and o...