Laurance Labadie’s “Is Credulity Sweeping the World?”

Laurance Labadie’s “Is Credulity Sweeping the World?”

Is Credulity Sweeping the World? Somewhere in his book, What is Property[?], Proudhon tells of a Parisian of the 17th century who heard it said that in Venice they had no king. This struck him as so absurd and ridiculous that he nearly killed himself from laughing. He wondered, I suppose, what sort of chaos existed in that king-forsaken city.  We of today are apt to also laugh at that simple-minded Parisian. For we know that it is possible to ge…