What About Capitalism?
from What is Property? Published 1840
An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government
Pierre J. Proudhon

Yes: all men believe and repeat that equality of conditions is identical with equality of rights; that property and robbery are synonymous terms; that every social advantage accorded, or rather usurped, in the name of superior talent or service, is iniquity and extortion. All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.