Schapiro’s argument has been supported by many commentators on Proudhon and anarchism.
Schapiro rested his case on a series of quotations and references which presented Proudhon as hating democracy and socialism, a supporter of dictatorship, an opponent of the labour movement, a racist who viewed blacks as the lowest of all races, a supporter of the South during the American Civil War, an anti-feminist, an anti-Semite and as a despiser of the “common man.” This was expanded four years later as a chapter in his book Liberalism and the Challenge of Fascism. Salwyn Schapiro and an article published in the prestigious The American Historical Review entitled “Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Harbinger of Fascism”. The latter claim is most associated with American professor J. Yet he is regularly accused of being contradictory and an inspiration for many political ideologies, from anarchism to fascism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) is usually considered as the father of anarchism, someone who both raised the main ideas of libertarian socialist thought and named them when he proclaimed “I am an anarchist” in 1840.
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