“We are not giving a history according to the order in time, but according to the sequence
of ideas. Economic phases or categories are in their manifestation sometimes contemporary, sometimes inverted.... Economic theories have nonetheless their logical sequence
and their serial relation in the understanding: it is this order that we flatter ourselves to
have discovered.” (Proudhon, tome I, pp. 145 and 146.)


M. Proudhon most certainly wanted to frighten the French by
flinging quasi-Hegelian phrases at them. So we have to deal with two
men: first with M. Proudhon, and then with Hegel. How does M.
Proudhon distinguish himself from other economists? And what
part does Hegel play in M. Proudhon’s political economy?