Pierre Joseph Proudhon was a fuggin antisemite, broadly he was against all organized religion by force, and I was today years old when I found out. Mutualism was a really tight idea and all, it had its holes, but when the holes are filled with ethnic cleansing and the preservation of a half baked monetary system I checked out. I feel bad because I recommend mutualism to a bb anarchist and now I gotta either find out they turned on anarchy already because of this or tell them first that Proudhon hated Jewish people about as much as he hated the English, as a primary political focus. He concluded of his short letter entitled “On the Jews” with this statement and honestly it makes a lot of sense why Europe fell so in line with fascism and ethnic cleansing over anarchy so many times:
"The hatred of the Jew like the hatred of the English should be our first article of political faith. Moreover, the abolition of Judaism will come with the abolition of other religions. Begin by not allocating funds to the clergy and leaving this to religious offerings. – And then, a short while later, abolish the religion."