Note 115 — XXII. SOCIAL MOTIVE FORCE.
Patrick James Stirling translation
“Poverty is the fruit of Political Economy. . . . Political Economy requires death to come to its aid; . . . it is the theory of instability and theft.”—Proudhon, Contradictions Économiques, t. xi. p. 214. “If the people want bread, . . . it is the fault of Political Economy.”—Ibid.