Joseph Déjacque

Who was Joseph Déjacque?

Joseph Déjacque was a French early anarcho-communist poet and writer. Déjacque was the first recorded person to employ the term libertarian for himself in a political sense, in a letter written in 1857 criticizing Pierre-Joseph Proudhon for his sexist views on women, his support of individual ownership of the product of labor, and of a market economy, saying: "it is not the product of his or her labor that the worker has a right to, but to the satisfaction of his or her needs, whatever may be their nature."